This just happened to me too, I reformatted an old WD 205BA drive to a single primary fat32 partition and when I try to access it again dosfsck takes 100% cpu.
here is the info you sought in a prior comment:
vincent@gq:~$ apt-cache policy gparted
gparted:
Installed: 0.3.5-1ubuntu3
Candidate: 0.3.5-1ubuntu3
Version table:
*** 0.3.5-1ubuntu3 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
vincent@gq:~$ sudo gparted
======================
libparted : 1.7.1
======================
At this point gparted launches but never gets past "scanning all devices" and dosfsck takes 100%cpu.
when I kill dosfsck gparted proceeds and displays the usual stuff except that the offending partition has the triangle-with-and-exclamation point icon after the device name.
I've given up and put an ext3 partition on it instead - but I hope this helps because fat32 is sort of the lingua-franca of filesystems.
This just happened to me too, I reformatted an old WD 205BA drive to a single primary fat32 partition and when I try to access it again dosfsck takes 100% cpu.
here is the info you sought in a prior comment: us.archive. ubuntu. com hardy/main Packages dpkg/status ======= ======= = ======= ======= =
vincent@gq:~$ apt-cache policy gparted
gparted:
Installed: 0.3.5-1ubuntu3
Candidate: 0.3.5-1ubuntu3
Version table:
*** 0.3.5-1ubuntu3 0
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
vincent@gq:~$ sudo gparted
=======
libparted : 1.7.1
=======
At this point gparted launches but never gets past "scanning all devices" and dosfsck takes 100%cpu. with-and- exclamation point icon after the device name.
when I kill dosfsck gparted proceeds and displays the usual stuff except that the offending partition has the triangle-
I've given up and put an ext3 partition on it instead - but I hope this helps because fat32 is sort of the lingua-franca of filesystems.