Comment 2 for bug 175161

On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 05:16:13 -0000, "Saïvann Carignan"
<email address hidden> said:
> I think that Gparted should not show "LUKS" as filesystem for a
> partition because LUKS isn't a filesystem, it can encrypt a
> filesystem. I just tried to boot from latest Linux Ubuntu Gutsy live
> CD to see what Gparted would say about my LUKS ext3 filesystem and it
> showed it as "ext3 partition". I also tried on another computer which
> have a ext2 LUKS partition and Gparted showed a ext2 partition. I
> think that it's exactly the good behavior.

I was also using the Gutsy live installer, and it showed "unknown".
When you select Properties (or was it Information?) it explained that
this could mean that it's unallocated, or that gparted doesn't recognize
the partition type, or that it's hosed.

Does it matter whether the partition is mounted or not? When you have
the decryption in place, of course gparted can look inside and see what
the container contains, but when it's encrypted, that should not be
possible (I assume).

Granted, LUKS is not a partition type, but it would be better if it
showed "I know what this is" rather than a yellow warning triangle and a
"might be broken or empty" explanation.

> I tested this with gparted 0.3.3-2ubuntu6.1, can you tell what version
> of gparted you are using? You can know this by typing this on a
> terminal :
>
> apt-cache policy gparted

Sorry, I repurposed the USB stick I was using while installing, but it
was whatever ships on the Ubuntu 7.10 installer.

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