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-rw-r--r--libfdisk/src/dos.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/libfdisk/src/dos.c b/libfdisk/src/dos.c
index 7e2374df9..6af061b16 100644
--- a/libfdisk/src/dos.c
+++ b/libfdisk/src/dos.c
@@ -1474,6 +1474,9 @@ static int dos_set_parttype(
"partitions, please see the fdisk documentation for additional "
"information."));
+ if (!t->type)
+ fdisk_warnx(cxt, _("Type 0 means free space to many systems. "
+ "Having partitions of type 0 is probably unwise."));
p->sys_ind = t->type;
partition_set_changed(cxt, partnum, 1);