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qtparted package

qtparted fails to detect used space in a partition

Bug #45398 reported by Marco Cimmino
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qtparted (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

I had an hard disk formatted with FAT32 and 1 GB used space of 6,4 total.
After delete the partition, created two new ones, one swap and one ext3, applied all, all is ok, but installer still say that hard disk has 1 GB of used space.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

Is it the advanced partitioner (gparted) that's saying this?

Changed in ubiquity:
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Marco Cimmino (cimmo) wrote :

sorry, using kubuntu daily 18/5, don't know if is it KDE related or not:
it was in the GUI just over the partitions summary.
The graph that shows partitions and their usage.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

OK, it's a qtparted bug then.

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status: Needs Info → Unconfirmed
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Marco Cimmino (cimmo) wrote :

I have done with kubuntu daily 19/5 two screenshot, for both hda and hdb I have erased hda1 and hdb1, recreated identical partitions and applied.
In both you can view that there is still some used space, this space should be zero, because the partition is new!

Another strange thing is the used space is less than the real used space used in the previuos partition, so don't know the cause of the bug

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Marco Cimmino (cimmo) wrote : hda1

hda1 has still used space after created new partition.

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Marco Cimmino (cimmo) wrote : hdb1

hdb1 has still used space after created new partition.

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Marco Cimmino (cimmo) wrote : Re: with a non-empty fat32 hard disk, after delete the partition it still says that it's non-empty

not fixed in kubuntu daily 25/5

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Marco Cimmino (cimmo) wrote :

it happens also with ext3 not only fat32

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Marco Cimmino (cimmo) wrote :

Confirmed in kubuntu 6.06 final

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Marco Cimmino (cimmo) wrote :

The bug also affects ntfs partition:
It was user for 24,8 GB and qtparted said 58,16 GB

it definitely wrong the used space:
with any filesystem, empty or not

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Savvas Radevic (medigeek) wrote :

Does this still happen with latest Kubuntu 8.04.1 [1] or Kubuntu 8.10 [2] ?
[1] http://releases.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/hardy/
[2] http://releases.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/intrepid/

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status: New → Incomplete
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Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman) wrote :

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

Changed in qtparted:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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