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Clear msftres and other GPT 'flags' set by GNU parted
Authored by: datagrubber on Sat, Oct 18 2008 at 8:46PM PDT

I discovered that having more than four partitions caused my problem with the msftres flag. When I deleted a swap partition and returned to having 1: EFI, 2: HFS (Leopard), 3: ext3, and 4: NTFS (Vista) I was able to get rid of the flag. (Puppy linux doesn't really need the swap partition so I'm ok now on my MacBook Pro.)