qtparted unable to make ffs partitions

[Lars Noodén]

qtparted appears unable to make ffs or ufs partitions

$ uname -a
Linux macbook 2.6.24-23-generic #1 SMP Mon Jan 26 01:04:16 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.04.2"

$ apt-cache show qtparted
Package: qtparted
Priority: optional
Section: universe/x11
Installed-Size: 784
Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <email address hidden>
Original-Maintainer: Fabian Franz <email address hidden>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.4.5-2ubuntu14
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7-1), libgcc1, libice6 (>= 1:1.0.0), libparted1.7-1 (>= 1.7.1-1), libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4), libqt3-mt (>= 3:3.3.8-b), libsm6, libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1-21), libuuid1, libx11-6, libxext6, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-1)
Recommends: e2fsprogs (>= 1.2), jfsutils (>= 1.1.1), ntfsprogs (>= 1.7.1), parted (>= 1.6.6), xfsprogs (>= 2.4.12)
Filename: pool/universe/q/qtparted/qtparted_0.4.5-2ubuntu14_amd64.deb
Size: 228138
MD5sum: c4621f98f389058fa2b3bf9ef09040ab
SHA1: 0d8cac3f391d5b210e2f8b6898727a7c41563f30
SHA256: a1083fde18c47b9739172c1b395d89d917754955c49c6417aa67246b63c245fd
Description: A parted frontend using QT
 QTParted is a Partition Magic clone writen using C++.
 It is based on libparted and QT toolkit.
Homepage: http://qtparted.sourceforge.net
Bugs: mailto:<email address hidden>
Origin: Ubuntu

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

QtParted is unmaintained and has been removed from distribution, so further bugs or feature requests will not be solved. Thanks for reporting this bug all the same.