GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 353887
Unable to edit partitions on removable drives
Last modified: 2006-09-01 19:25:23 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
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 ***
(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.
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.