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LintabOS 0.3.6 (pre-release)
A real user's tablet had no partition LinWinMod could recognise automatically.
The gap
disks.find_windows() (what windows_partitions() relies on) needs a \Windows\System32 folder found via a real
mount, or to be the biggest Microsoft-data partition on a disk whose ESP has a Windows boot manager. An unusual
layout, or a secondary NTFS data partition without a detectable System32, satisfies neither — and so never showed
up in LinWinMod at all, with no way to tell it "no, use this one."
The fix
LinWinMod's Files tab now also lists every NTFS partition on the tablet (list_ntfs_partitions()), in a
dropdown with a "Use this partition" button — regardless of whether it looks like "the" Windows install. The same
Fast-Startup/dirty safety check (lintab-windows-files enable --read-write's own gate) still applies before
anything is mounted read-write, and switching which partition is set up no longer leaves a stale mount of the
previous one behind.
What was checked
A new unit test confirms the filter logic (NTFS kept, BitLocker and other filesystems excluded) against a synthetic
disk; two real loop-device tests build an actual NTFS partition with no \Windows\System32 folder, confirm
automatic detection genuinely misses it, and confirm lintab-windows-files enable --read-write --partition PATH
correctly sets up that exact partition with its real blkid UUID. All 20 loop-device tests (dual-boot, shrink,
Remove LintabOS, and the two new ones) pass; the new window layout was verified by rendering it headlessly.
Files: lintabos-0.3.6-amd64.iso, lintabos-core_0.3.6_all.deb + .minisig, SHA256SUMS.