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gnome-disk-utility package

  1. Bug #802153
  2. Comment #0

Comment 0 for bug 802153

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Silvan (silvan-0) wrote :

When creating a new partition on an empty hard drive, the starting sektor is 63, not as it should be now 2048.

# fdisk -lu /dev/sdb

Platte /dev/sdb: 2000.4 GByte, 2000398934016 Byte
255 Köpfe, 63 Sektoren/Spur, 243201 Zylinder, zusammen 3907029168 Sektoren
Einheiten = Sektoren von 1 × 512 = 512 Bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0007d0f0

   Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id System
/dev/sdb1 63 1953520064 976760001 83 Linux

On a hard drive formated with the installer of ubuntu 11.04 the allignment is done wright, the starting sektor is 2048, as it should be on the new 4k hard drives.

Gparted does use starting sektor 2048 as well on standard settings.

Hte fix should be: change the starting sektor on a new partition to 2048.

Used versions:
gnome-disk-utility:
  Installiert: 2.32.1-0ubuntu4
  Kandidat: 2.32.1-0ubuntu4
  Versionstabelle:
 *** 2.32.1-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Description: Ubuntu 11.04
Release: 11.04

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: gnome-disk-utility 2.32.1-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Jun 26 13:43:27 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/palimpsest
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de_DE:en
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-disk-utility
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)