This just happened to me on intrepid. It looks like it wrote the tables alright, but it still tried to automount before the drive finished formatting, and I got a completely incomprehensible 'could not mount volume' error message that referenced org.freedesktop.Hal...
This just happened to me on intrepid. It looks like it wrote the tables alright, but it still tried to automount before the drive finished formatting, and I got a completely incomprehensible 'could not mount volume' error message that referenced org.freedesktop .Hal...