gparted does not show nvraid partitions

[Pernig]

Binary package hint: gparted

I think this may have something to do with a bug I reported before; https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/575473. The reason being is because I think ubiquity uses GParted to determine partitions in the install process which could explain why grub wasn't installed correctly?

When I open GParted all I can see is /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. I cannot see /dev/mapper/nvidia_bfhaeede which is my 1TB RAID stripe which I mentioned in the other bug; 150GB ext4 4GB linux-swap 150GB ntfs and the remainder another ntfs.

'Disk utility' sees these partitions fine, however.

I don't think this is a problem with dmraid as if I use dmraid from the terminal it says the partitions are already mounted fine. And in Maverick and Lucid I have had no problems accessing these partitions as I use all except the 150GB ntfs frequently.

However I think I may have had trouble accessing these partitions on the Live CD but can't remember exactly what. If you think this is relevant I will check to make certain.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: gparted 0.6.2-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Nov 2 01:13:15 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gparted

[Pernig (j-jinks)]

If I start gparted from the command line I can work around this problem:

~$ sudo gparted /dev/mapper/nvidia_bfhaeede

[Jan Claeys (janc)]

Ubiquity uses libparted and so does GParted, but Ubiquity doesn't use GParted.

And this has something to do with the devicename of your nvidia raid not being recognized as a valid dmraid device.

[Curtis Gedak (gedakc)]

What is the output from the following command (run as root):

dmraid -sa -c

[Pernig (j-jinks)]

Hi Curtis. Output is as follows:

james@james-desktop:~$ sudo dmraid -sa -c
[sudo] password for james:
nvidia_bfhaeede

[Curtis Gedak (gedakc)]

That looks normal.

Would you be able to try the most recent version of GParted?
Today GParted 0.7.1 was released, but will probably not be available in a live image for a day or so.

GParted Live 0.7.0 is available though for testing:
http://gparted.org/livecd.php

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

I am closing this report since the requested information was not provided. If this is still an issue, please provide the requested information and change the status back to new.