mistakes ext2 with fat16

[A Mennucc]

hi

I am reporting here a bug, which is also discussed in 
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=299906

I have a USB memory stick; when I bought it,
(before I used cfdisk), the usb stick was 'partionless' :
 /dev/sda itself was one big fat partition
 
then I used cfdisk to create partitions in it:
I have created one partition on it, and formatted it to ext2;
the current layout is 

# fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 130 MB, 130809856 bytes
5 heads, 50 sectors/track, 1021 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 250 * 512 = 128000 bytes
   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1        1021      127600   83  Linux

output of fdisk Expert command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 5 heads, 50 sectors, 1021 cylinders
Nr AF  Hd Sec  Cyl  Hd Sec  Cyl     Start      Size ID
 1 00   1   1    0   4  50 1020         50     255200 83
 2 00   0   0    0   0   0    0          0          0 00
 3 00   0   0    0   0   0    0          0          0 00
 4 00   0   0    0   0   0    0          0          0 00



this scheme works fine for me : when I plug it in , the combination of
udev/hal/pmount/nautilus
mounts my partition and shows it in a nice nautilus window

then I wanted to use parted to resize my partition
(to make room for a second crypto partition ) 

But if I try to use parted on it, I get this 
# parted /dev/sda
GNU Parted 1.6.21 with HFS shrink patch 16
.....
Using /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
(parted) print                                                            
Disk geometry for /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/disc: 0.000-124.750 
megabytes
Disk label type: loop
Minor    Start       End     Filesystem  Flags
1          0.000    124.750  fat16       

so parted thinks my partition is fat16 (and I cannot resize it)



a.

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Andrea Mennucc
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