I think too that this bug should/must been solved for feisty (i think that it's critical). I (400Go, 2x250Go, and 300Go in a Dvico M5000A box player) and other friends of mine use external DD with many partitions (often vfat and ntfs now we have ntfs writing with feisty). Using multiple partition on external DD ensure that we don't loose all datas.
I think too that this bug should/must been solved for feisty (i think that it's critical). I (400Go, 2x250Go, and 300Go in a Dvico M5000A box player) and other friends of mine use external DD with many partitions (often vfat and ntfs now we have ntfs writing with feisty). Using multiple partition on external DD ensure that we don't loose all datas.