SD format operation crashes if volume label is more than 11 characters long

[tjagoda]

Binary package hint: gnome-disk-utility

I did a format on a 2GB SD card by right clicking on the SD card icon and selecting format, under FAT windows/linux compatible file system settings. It then asks you what you'd like the volume label to be - if you type in anything over 11 characters, the process then errors out - but with an error message which does not hint to the user that the real problem is their length volume label.

A good fix may be to limit the label max length on the input field, or to give a more helpful error message.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: gnome-disk-utility 2.30.1-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Nov 28 18:39:54 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/palimpsest
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-disk-utility

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report, it has been some time without any response or feedback in this bug report and we are wondering if this is still an issue for you with the latest release of Ubuntu the Natty Narwhal, May you please test with that version and comment back if you're still having or not the issue? Please have a look at http://www.ubuntu.com/download to know how to install that version. Thanks in advance and sorry for the late response.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

[dgw (dgw)]

I observed this bug in Ubuntu 16.04 with GNOME Disks 3.18.3, trying to format a FAT32 partition on a USB drive.

However, instead of giving an error message, Disks crashed completely. As soon as I entered a volume label of 11 characters or less, the format succeeded.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thanks but don't reopen old closed bugs, submit a new one with the current system informations instead