On Oct 24, 2013, at 8:59 AM, John Reiser <jreiser(a)bitwagon.com> wrote:
Such a tool also should diagnose both overlap and unclaimed space,
and provide some means for repair of these conditions.
For example in the case of "minor" overlap: repair might be "minimum
wins",
"maximum wins", or arbitrary edit of extent fields.
The tool also should diagnose "protective MBR" situations and
understand common values for partition type entries (both GPT and MBR).
It should provide the ability to overwrite any existing checksum
with the calculated correct checksum. The tool also should be able
to erase both GPT tables (overwrite all bytes to 0x00.)
For now the scope is unattended operation at startup or shutdown. I think all of the above
suggestions need a user to be directly involved.
Chris Murphy