Comment 12 for bug 554582

Hi,

Gparted does seem to list the dmraid partitions, but you need to make sure kpartx is installed as it is not a dependency of the gparted package.

One issue I have found is to do with the partition naming. When gparted tries to format my devices that end in a letter kpartx has renamed these to XXXp1 and when gparted calls mkfs.ext4 it uses the old partition name of XXX1 so fails miserably. In addition to this the new device name is incompatible with ubiquity as an install fails when you install to a XXXp1 partition.

My question is, is it really necessary to use kpartx in gparted. I removed all traces of kpartx from the DMRaid.cc file and built gparted. Gparted now works perfectly on my two dmraid RAID0 volumes, One named "jmicron_HD2" and the other "isw_bgafaifadd_DATA" indicating that kpartx is not required at all. (two different naming formats with two different RAID controllers)

I plan to post a bug report soon when I get some more free time.

best regards,
Danny