[ubuntu intrepid] GParted does not detect devices and parted acts strange also
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: gparted
Running Ubuntu Intrepid on an Acer Aspire One A110L. GParted recognizes the built-in hard disk (an 8GB SSD actually) under /dev/sda, and it does recognize a USB stick (e.g. at /dev/sdb), but it does not see the built-in card readers, even when the netbook is booted with both card readers holding a card. The card readers have the device names /dev/mmcblk0 and /dev/mmcblk1. Nautilus does see all devices, and all devices allow read from and write to.
Strangely, when parted is called from a terminal as: "sudo parted -l" it lists all 4 existing devices correctly. When parted is called from the regular user as "parted -l" it does NOT list the SSD disk or the USB stick, but it DOES list both card readers! Parted also allows the non-root user to modify the partitions on those card readers!
Something is wacky - parted should not allow non-root users to modify any partition, and GParted should recognize all devices and partitons (just as Nautilus does). Perhaps the strange naming of the devices and/or partitons is the cause of problems.
The underlying cause may be related to the bug I reported for FDisk, see https:/
I believe when a regular user is allowed to modify partitions, this qualifies as a security vulnerability, therefore I marked that.
~$ uname -a
Linux aa1 2.6.27-8-generic #1 SMP Thu Nov 6 17:33:54 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
GParted 0.4.4 has just been released. It contains a fix to recognize /dev/mmcblk# devices.
See GParted Bug: bugzilla. gnome.org/ show_bug. cgi?id= 564985
http://