gparted does not recognize the iso9660 file system in cloned Ubuntu USB boot drives
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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GParted |
Fix Released
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High
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gparted (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
I am testing in a live system and looking at the very drive, from which it is booted, the current daily iso file of Lubuntu Xenial i386 (post 16.04.1 LTS). The problem is that the file system cannot be identified, and several end users may (and will) think that the USB boot drive is damaged. But it works, it is cloned, which is the straightforward method to create a boot drive from a hybrid iso file.
this issue was worse in previous versions, where gparted would complain about an error; now it is at least seeing the partition. The next step is that it can see the file system too.
lsblk can see it, as illustrated by the following command line (in a wide terminal window),
sudo lsblk -fm
The attached screenshot illustrates the problem, and shows that it affects the text mode program parted too.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: gparted 0.25.0-1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-38-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.376
CurrentDesktop: LXDE
Date: Sun Sep 11 10:10:21 2016
LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Beta i386 (20160909)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gparted
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Edit:
After some testing I found that the current i386 versions behave in a similar way as Xenial.
But the current amd64 (64-bit) versions are more severely affected by this bug. It is much worse in Trusty, but also bad in Xenial as illustrated by screenshots in comments #6 and #7. This behaviour will really confuse new users of Ubuntu and the Ubuntu flavours.
description: | updated |
Changed in gparted (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
Changed in gparted: | |
importance: | Unknown → High |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
Changed in gparted: | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
This illustrates that lsblk can see the iso9660 file system:
lubuntu@lubuntu:~$ sudo lsblk -f /dev/sda 09-18-15- 41-00 /cdrom 09-18-15- 41-00
NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID MOUNTPOINT
sda iso9660 Lubuntu 16.04.1 LTS i386 2016-09-
└─sda1 iso9660 Lubuntu 16.04.1 LTS i386 2016-09-
lubuntu@lubuntu:~$ sudo lsblk -m /dev/sda
NAME SIZE OWNER GROUP MODE
sda 3.7G root disk brw-rw----
└─sda1 859M root disk brw-rw----
lubuntu@lubuntu:~$