GParted

  1. Bug #121943
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 121943

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Fred Germain (frederic-germain) wrote : Re: Intrepid, Hardy: Gparted freezes with external USB HD

Happens also on live CD jaunty

When gparted is in "Searching /dev/sda partitions" state, which take a while, the result of a ps -efH gives :
ubuntu 10921 1 0 20:53 ? 00:00:00 gksu /usr/sbin/gparted
root 10922 10921 0 20:53 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/sbin/gparted
root 10929 10922 0 20:53 ? 00:00:00 hal-lock --interface org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storag
root 10930 10929 12 20:53 ? 00:00:11 /usr/sbin/gpartedbin
root 11056 10930 0 20:53 ? 00:00:00 sh -c dosfsck -a -v /dev/sda5
root 11057 11056 36 20:53 ? 00:00:32 dosfsck -a -v /dev/sda5

/dev/sda5 is an umounted FAT partition.

gparted really should not call dosfsck at this part of partition scanning. dosfsck -a might modify the partition without user consent !

I think I also have the problem at ubuntu install, which is blocked at the "scanning for partition" step but I'm not 100% sure about this.