Comment 0 for bug 1917105

I have tried to create a 2 GB swap partition on a GPT disk using both the gnome-disk-utility and gparted.
My system is a Virtualbox VM with the standard vdi file, that I did grow in Virtualbox with 2 GB using the virtual media manager menu. It has been impossible to create any partition in that 2 GB free space using those utilities. Both first promoted to extend the last partition and when I refused and used Apply, they both did give the notorious partitioning error message and nothing changed on the disk.

In the end I added the virtual disk to a Windows 10 VM and I used Windows 10 to create a NTFS partition in that free space. After reloading Xubuntu I used gparted to format the partition to a Linux swap partition and that is what I use now after editing fstab.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.04
Package: gnome-disk-utility 3.38.2-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.10.0-14.15-generic 5.10.11
Uname: Linux 5.10.0-14-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu59
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Sat Feb 27 00:38:38 2021
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-11-21 (97 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 21.04 "Hirsute Hippo" - Alpha amd64 (20201120)
SourcePackage: gnome-disk-utility
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)