usb-drive is automaticly remounted during format stopping gparted

[Martin Jensen]

Binary package hint: gparted

I'm not too sure whether this is a problem with gparted or whatever program that does the automounting of usb-drives. Anyways .. there seems to be a slight annoying problem:

1) I hook up an usb-drive, it starts as usual and give me access to it.

2) I unmount it to format it using gparted.

3) I start up gparted and make sure that the drive is unmounted.

4) After selecting the filesystem and starting the format the drive is automaticly mounted again by gnome/ubuntu. This prevents gparted from starting the format. Gparted returns an error that it is unable to run mkdosfs because the target drive is already mounted.

This happens every time. I could try to speculate about whether gparted signals ubuntu to remount the drive or whatever - but I really have no clue ;)

Regards

/Martin

[Martin Jensen (martin-mdc)]

I forgot to mention: this is on a fully updated edgy.

[Martin Jensen (martin-mdc)]

Unmounting the drive and running formating the drive from terminal does not cause remount of the usb drive. Just throught I would mention it as it indicates that it is gparted that causes gnome to remount the drive.

[Rocko (rockorequin)]

I can confirm the problem.

You can workaround it by disabling auto-mounting of hot-plugged drives (via System / Preferences / Removable Drives and Media), then creating the file system, and then re-enabling auto-mounting.

But it would obviously be much better if GParted did this automatically when creating the file system, particularly as the workaround is not at all obviously intuitive.

[Alec Wright (alecjw)]

It seems to be fixed in the latest feisty, but it would be nice to see it in older releases too.

[Shashank Chintalagiri (shashank-chintalagiri)]

The problem is not fixed in feisty. Atleast, I have the same issue. Not with removable media though. I dont have a USB drive to test with right now. I have the problem with internal hard drives. All three of them show the same behaviour on 2 computers (with the same ubuntu install, only difference being a recofigure of xserver-xorg). None of the partitions are on the fstab. All of them automount in the middle of the creating of the new partition - just after the partition is created but before the new filesystem is written.

This bug makes gparted useless as a partitioning tool.

[rmadla (anson-jhu)]

Adding a comment here generates a "this bug is a duplicate" warning - but it doesn't say what this bug duplicates! I've spent 15 minutes or so searching for the bug it duplicates to no avail, so:

This is still a bug in Ubuntu 8.04, as of 3 March 2009. I have been doing everything I can think of to copy a partition to unallocated space on my USB drive, but each time I make the attempt, the source drive is remounted and gparted refuses to copy it, informing me that the failure is due to the fact that the source drive is mounted. I am at a loss as to the true source of the error, as was the original poster.

The work-around suggested by Rocko in 2006 no longer works in 2009: "Removable Drives and Media" no longer controls the auto-mounting of USB drives.

[Simon Ruggier (simon80)]

At the top of the page, it should say: "Duplicate of bug #37768"