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gparted package

  1. Bug #545911
  2. Comment #18

Comment 18 for bug 545911

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Curtis Gedak (gedakc) wrote : Re: Cannot use gparted

Based on your report, it appears that the usb device has an invalid partition table.

A work around is to copy your data to another device, write a new partition table to the usb device, and then restore your data back to the usb device.

A similar bug has been reported:

Verbatim USB stick crashes gParted
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gparted/+bug/710696