gparted does not like /dev/mapper devices
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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GParted |
Fix Released
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Medium
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gparted (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
It seems that gparted does not like working with /dev/mapper devices. I believe
it has something to do with the fact that after updating the partition table, it
issues an ioctl to ask the kernel to re-read the partition table and fix up the
partition devices, but this operation is not supported on /dev/mapper devices.
The symtoms that I have seen so far include:
1) Attempting to resise a partition ( NTFS in this case ) simply did nothing.
When I clicked apply, it appeared to work for a few seconds, then just stopped
with no error message. No changes were made to the disk.
2) If you attempt to create a new partition and format it, the new partition
gets created, but the format fails because the ioctl fails and the new partition
device does not exist. I had to only add the partition, apply, then run the
dmraid utility to re-read the partition table and create the new partition
device, then refresh gparted and then format.
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Changed in gparted: | |
status: | Unconfirmed → Confirmed |
Changed in gparted: | |
status: | Unknown → In Progress |
Changed in gparted: | |
assignee: | dholbach → nobody |
Changed in gparted: | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Released |
Changed in gparted: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
Thanks for the bug report, I took the issue to upstream: bugs.gnome. org/show_ bug.cgi? id=317262
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