Forwarded from bugzilla.gnome.org: Swap partition is detected as "unknown", when a hibernation signature is on it

[Holger Wansing]

Hello,

3 years ago I filed this bugreport to the gnome bugzilla
bugtracking system:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334569

This week I was told to post that problem here on the parted
mailinglist. 
So, here we go:

I use the alternative suspend-to-disk implementation named
Tux-On-Ice (the project started as "suspend2", so suspend2 and
Tux-On-Ice is the same).
The data is stored on my swap partition.
When I suspend my machine like that and look on my disk then
with parted (with a livecd for example), the swap partition is 
not detected as swap by parted, partition type is "unknown".
The command "fdisk -lu" detects the partition as
"Swap linux / Solaris".

Attached you find the output of
"hexdump -C /dev/sda5 | head -n 50" for both situations,
when swap partition is clean and when containing the suspend
data.

I you want to know, what was already done/told about this in the
past, see
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334569


Thanks

Greetings
Holger

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