GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 767153
Format issue while creating msdos partition table
Last modified: 2016-06-02 15:15:21 UTC
Created attachment 328938 [details] save _details file I was trying to format a 4 GB pendrive It looked innocent with 3.8 GB unallocated But then it showed a weird error that suggested to restart the computer but had the option to ignore the warning. So i applied changes and every time it failed. Then i got this save_details dialogue that let me have this details file. That's how I got where i am. Earned a gnome account on the way. Endure the case. All yours !
Thank you for saving and providing the gparted_details.htm log file. This is a great help with identifying the problem. From the log file it appears that the device /dev/sdb1 had not yet been created when GParted tried to format the partition with the NTFS file system. --- begin log snippet --- create new ntfs file system 00:00:00 ( ERROR ) mkntfs -Q -v -F -L "" /dev/sdb1 00:00:00 ( ERROR ) Failed to access '/dev/sdb1': No such file or directory The device doesn't exist; did you specify it correctly? --- end log snippet --- This was a bug that was fixed in GParted 0.26.0. See: Bug 762941 - Operations sometimes failing with: No such file or directory Please try GParted 0.26.0+. One of the best ways is to boot from media containing the latest version of GParted Live. http://gparted.org/livecd.php I'm marking this bug as a duplicate of the previous bug report. Curtis *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 762941 ***