gparted does not see f2fs-tools installed (Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic)

[Wladimir Mutel]

$ dpkg -l gparted f2fs-tools
ii f2fs-tools 1.10.0-1 amd64 Tools for Flash-Friendly File System
ii gparted 0.32.0-1ubuntu1 amd64 GNOME partition editor

$ sudo blkid
/dev/sdb1: SEC_TYPE="msdos" UUID="001B-BEEA" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="63d47932-01"
/dev/sdb2: UUID="4f41dbd2-8204-4d90-acf4-de1d7280d91b" TYPE="f2fs" PARTUUID="63d47932-02"

$ sudo fsck /dev/sdb2
fsck з util-linux 2.32
Info: [/dev/sdb2] Disk Model: STORE N GO1.0APPOTECHUDISK������u\�\ӕKP
Info: Segments per section = 1
Info: Sections per zone = 1
Info: sector size = 512
Info: total sectors = 30267392 (14779 MB)
Info: MKFS version
  "Linux version 4.4.0-72-generic (buildd@lcy01-17) (gcc version 5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4) ) #93-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 31 14:07:41 UTC 2017"
Info: FSCK version
  from "Linux version 4.15.0-20-generic (buildd@lgw01-amd64-039) (gcc version 7.3.0 (Ubuntu 7.3.0-16ubuntu3)) #21-Ubuntu SMP Tue Apr 24 06:16:15 UTC 2018"
    to "Linux version 4.18.0-8-generic (buildd@lgw01-amd64-055) (gcc version 8.2.0 (Ubuntu 8.2.0-6ubuntu1)) #9-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 10 16:12:10 UTC 2018"
Info: superblock features = 0 :
Info: superblock encrypt level = 0, salt = 00000000000000000000000000000000
Info: total FS sectors = 30267392 (14779 MB)
Info: CKPT version = 1de1
Info: Found valid nat_bits in checkpoint
Info: checkpoint state = 2c5 : allow_nocrc nat_bits crc compacted_summary unmount

[FSCK] Unreachable nat entries [Ok..] [0x0]
[FSCK] SIT valid block bitmap checking [Ok..]
[FSCK] Hard link checking for regular file [Ok..] [0x9]
[FSCK] valid_block_count matching with CP [Ok..] [0xc2244]
[FSCK] valid_node_count matcing with CP (de lookup) [Ok..] [0x157fd]
[FSCK] valid_node_count matcing with CP (nat lookup) [Ok..] [0x157fd]
[FSCK] valid_inode_count matched with CP [Ok..] [0x156d1]
[FSCK] free segment_count matched with CP [Ok..] [0x145a]
[FSCK] next block offset is free [Ok..]
[FSCK] fixing SIT types
[FSCK] other corrupted bugs [Ok..]

Done.

...
and then, running gparted on /dev/sdb , I get a yellow warning triangle and a message in partition information :

"Unable to read the contents of this file system!
Because of this some operations may be unavailable.
The cause might be a missing software package.
The following list of software packages is required for f2fs file system support: f2fs-tools."

can this be caused by different mkfs/fsck/kernel versions ? or this is some overlook during gparted development ?

[Curtis Gedak (gedakc)]

The behaviour seen in GParted is because GParted is unable to read the used/unused information from the F2FS file system. Hence it warns that some operations may be unavailable. This is due to limitations in the file system tools for F2FS.

See also:
https://gparted.org/features.php

And note that GParted does not have READ capability for F2FS.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.