[Bug 36846] Re: The filesystem type of a volume is identified incorrectly.

[Tormod Volden]

The volume_id inside hal is a little different than the one from udev, it looks for vfat/fat magics at offsets 3075 and 3154. You can check with
 sudo dd if=/dev/sda5 bs=1 skip=3075 count=10 |od -c
and if it lists "MSWIN" you can for instance safely overwrite the M:
 echo "B" | sudo dd of=/dev/sda5 seek=3075 count=1 bs=1

This was enough to convince hal to look for other types of filesystems
in my case. This time, vol_id still thinks it is vfat...

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The filesystem type of a volume is identified incorrectly.
https://launchpad.net/bugs/36846