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Bug 353887 - Unable to edit partitions on removable drives
Unable to edit partitions on removable drives
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 324220
Product: gparted
Classification: Other
Component: application
0.1
Other All
: Normal major
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Assigned To: gparted maintainers alias
gparted maintainers alias
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-09-01 18:11 UTC by Andrew Jorgensen
Modified: 2006-09-01 19:25 UTC
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Description Andrew Jorgensen 2006-09-01 18:11:58 UTC
Please describe the problem:
gparted can't edit partition tables on removable drives because gnome-volume-manager mounts the partitions just as gparted is starting to apply the changes.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Unmount partitions on your removable disk
2. Edit the partition table
3. Click apply


Actual results:
g-v-m mounts your old partitions and gparted fails because those partitions are mounted

Expected results:
g-v-m should either know better or should be unable to mount the partition.  Probably the best scenario would be for gparted to notify g-v-m that it shouldn't attempt to mount anything from the drive(s) being edited.

Does this happen every time?
Only with removable disks with existing partitions and while g-v-m is running.

Other information:
Does gparted call an ioctl to re-read the partition table before it applies the changes?  This would make sense (probably a good thing).

There is a bug open on Ubuntu for this and there were at least a few duplicates downstream.  https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bug/37768
Comment 1 Plors (Bart H) 2006-09-01 18:19:27 UTC
this one has a fix in CVS, please try it and see if it works for you.

Also, whenever reporting bugs, you should use the latest version, 0.1 is very old.

thanks.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 324220 ***
Comment 2 Andrew Jorgensen 2006-09-01 19:13:29 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> Also, whenever reporting bugs, you should use the latest version, 0.1 is very
> old.

Sorry, I was using the latest version of Ubuntu (dapper), I assumed that they would have a reasonably recent version of gparted.
Comment 3 Plors (Bart H) 2006-09-01 19:25:23 UTC
no problem dude :^)

i'm just very sensitive about that because these old versions cause me quite some trouble :)

btw, i'd appreciate it if you could test the latest CVS and see if disabling of automounting works for you.