[BUG] Swap partition recognized as an UsbDisk

[Andrea Cimitan]

Il giorno sab, 07/07/2007 alle 08.32 +0200, Kay Sievers ha scritto:
> On 6/9/07, Andrea Cimitan <andrea.cimitan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm using new pata drivers which causes the device names to be sdaX.
> > My swap partition is sda1, and under "Computer" (in nautilus/gnome
and in kde) is shown (it shouldn't since it
> > isn't browsable) and named UsbDisk, so when I put a _real_ UsbDisk
it is
> > renamed as disk-1 and so on...
> > It is also placed in gtk-gilechooser, causing usability problems
> >
> > What it was expected to do:
> > 1. Not show swap under Computer and gtk-filechooser
> > 2. Not name it as "UsbDisk", since it isn't browsable and it isn't
an usbdisk
> >
> > First submitted here:
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=445647
> 
> It is likely a leftover signature from a former formatting. You have
> to clear the first few kilobytes of the partition before doing mkswap.
> As Danny already mentioned:
>   /lib/udev/vol_id --probe-all /dev/sdX
> is likely to show you two detected filesystems instead of only
"linux_swap".
> 
> Some of the Linux tools are just horrible broken regarding cleaning
> old signatures before applying new ones.
> 
> Kay
Yes... I have vfat and swap.
This hd was used in a laptop, which had a windows installation that i've
purged off :)
Also re-trying mkswap I have the same problem. How to clear it? usind
dd?

Thanks