Disk Utility offers to create NTFS partitions when 'ntfsprogs' is not installed

[Ethan Bissett]

Binary package hint: gnome-disk-utility

This is a different than bug #440314 but I encountered it during my exploration of the new Disk Utility.

The Disk Utility gave me the option of creating an NTFS partition on my external disk. However when I clicked create it gave me this error: "Error creating file system: helper exited with exit code 1: cannot spawn 'mkntfs -f /dev/sdb1': Failed to execute child process "mkntfs" (No such file or directory)"

mkntfs is a utility in the ntfsprogs package which is not installed on my system. I have not uninstalled it, it was never present since I installed Karmic Alpha 6 on the system.

The bug is not that this package wasn't installed by default. That may be a bug I don't know. The bug here is that the utility allowed me to select a filesystem type that it did not have the capability of producing.

I would have expected that either it would remove the NTFS option in the absence of the tools, or offer to install the tools.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Oct 1 22:05:01 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gnome-disk-utility 2.28.0-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-disk-utility
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic x86_64

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has already been reported, but please feel free to report any other bugs you find