GParted should use fine progress indicator for long operations

[Roman Polach]

When running partition check in GParted (Hardy) on my 1.5TB disk partition,
it takes about 3 hours to complete and all the time I can see only "0 of 1 operations completed".
It would be nice to see % number of that operation. User cannot guess if it would take
minutes, hours or days.

In GParted "Detail" output I can see that it uses "e2fsck -f -y -v /dev/sd??" command.
Manual page of e2fsck says that "-C" option can be used to get progress information.
Could it be used by GParted?

[arno_b (arno.b)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.
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I have classified this bug as a bug in gparted.

[Roman Polach (rpolach)]

Any progress to this issue?
Yesterday I stated "Check" operation on my 1.5TB USB disk, and I have no idea,
when it would finish in minutes, hours, days or weeks.

This issue would have more priority. Moreover it probably wouldn't be too hard
to fix it.

[pinzia (pinzia)]

same problem for me on jaunty

[Curtis Gedak (gedakc)]

This is related to the following upstream bug report:
Bug 467925 - gparted: add progress bar during operation
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=467925

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

This issue was fixed in gparted 0.25, available in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.