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gparted package

iPod seen as an empty disk of incorrect size

Bug #424030 reported by komputes on 2009-09-03

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #405022: gparted doesn't support sector sizes > 512. Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gparted (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

I have opened up Gparted with two seperate iPods (on both Jaunty and Karmic) and the disk partition seems to be incorrect.

The 4GB iPod nano shows up as 964.84 MB of unallocated empty disk space.

The 120GB iPod Classic shows up as 13.95 GB of unallocated empty disk space.

fdisk gives the following error:
Warning: Device /dev/sdc has a logical sector size of 2048. Not all parts of GNU Parted support this at the moment, and the working code is HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL. Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk!

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komputes (komputes) wrote on 2009-09-03:

ipod_empty1gb.png Edit (47.1 KiB, image/png)

This is the 4GB iPod nano, it comes up as 1GB of empty space in gparted.

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komputes (komputes) wrote on 2009-09-03:

ipod_empty14gb.png Edit (29.5 KiB, image/png)

This is the 120GB iPod classic, it comes up as 14GB of empty space in gparted.

komputes (komputes) on 2009-09-04

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arky (arky) wrote on 2009-09-04:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage. I have classified this bug as a bug in gparted.

When reporting bugs in the future please use apport, either via the appropriate application's "Help -> Report a Problem" menu or using 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

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Jan Claeys (janc) wrote on 2009-09-05:

I marked this as a duplicate of bug #405022 because there are a lot of similar issues, and sometimes but not always crashes, caused by the fact that libparted doesn't support "disk devices" with a logical sector size > 512.

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komputes (komputes) wrote on 2009-12-11:

Hi Jan, Bug #424030 and Bug #405022 are not duplicates as I am not getting the same error output as reported in that bug. As well, gparted never crashes for me.

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Jan Claeys (janc) wrote on 2009-12-21:

@David: even if you didn't see any crash, the "Warning: Device /dev/sdc has a logical sector size of 2048. Not all parts of GNU Parted support this at the moment, and the working code is HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL." message indicates a situation where GParted can't work reliably because of a limitation of libparted.