GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 529315
filesystem type 'unknown' when using GPT?
Last modified: 2010-03-08 22:20:18 UTC
Please describe the problem: I have a 2 TB Drobo storage unit. gparted claims that it cannot determine the file system type. It is a perfectly functional journalled ext2 (aka. ext3) The only reason I can think of for this problem is either the size of the device 2 TiB, or the use of GPT (which seems to be rare...) Steps to reproduce: 1. parted -i /dev/sdd mklabel gpt mkpart ext 0 100% quit mke2fs -j -i 262144 -L Drobo01 -m 0 -O sparse_super,^resize_inode /dev/sdd1 gparted... gparted claim says it's "unrecognized" 2. 3. Actual results: it says "unknown file system type" and there is no name. Expected results: It should display the correct 'ext2' file system type, and perhaps the assigned name 'Drobo01' Does this happen every time? yes. Other information: related bugs: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=529313 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=524948 http://parted.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/ticket/191
Peter, I think this problem has been fixed with parted version 1.9.0. Would you be able to retry this problem with a recent version of GParted and Parted? The GParted Live 0.5.1-1 CD image contains GParted 0.5.1 and Parted 1.9.0 (with patches).
Testing with GParted Live 0.5.1-1 confirms that this problem is fixed with the included package parted-1.9.0. Closing this bug.