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gnome-system-tools package

[disks-admin] doesnt detect my partitions correctly

Bug #32549 reported by Martin Ericsson
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gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Medium
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

My root directory is on /dev/sda9 but in disks-admin "Partition 9" says its access path is /media/sda6. Partition 6 isn't shown at all.

I have a Thinkpad R52 with a "hidden" rescue and recovery partition that might confuse the program?

I'm using Dapper Flight 4 and the version of disks-admin is 2.13.2

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Tags: disks-admin
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks for your bug. Could you attach your /etc/fstab and copy what "sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda" to a comment?

Changed in gnome-system-tools:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Martin Ericsson (i00marer) wrote : fstab and fdisk -l /dev/sda

/etc/fstab and output of fdisk - /dev/sda

Something has happened with the disc, the output says "Compaq diagnostics
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary." and "Partition table entries are not in disk order
" but disks-admin should still display the partitions correctly.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote : Re: disks-admin doesnt detect my partitions correctly

thank you for the log, I'll have a look on that code later and forward it upstream then

Changed in gnome-system-tools:
status: Needs Info → Unconfirmed
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

confirmed according to the number of duplicates for it

Changed in gnome-system-tools:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Martin Visser (martinvisser99) wrote :

I guess I'm kind of surprised this one isn't considered to be of "Critical" severity. On my Dapper machine, disks-admin shows /dev/hda7 as if it is /dev/hda5. As one of the functions of disks-admin is to format partitions, this could allow people to make particularly nasty mistakes.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Martin, the issue is that we get lot of bugs for the number of people working on them so we have to prioritize work. Work from contributors getting the issue on their box would be welcome for that one.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

from a duplicate:

"If two partitions are inadvertently labelled with the same name (e.g. using e2label) only one of them is visible in Disks Manager."

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
description: updated
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Wouter Stomp (wouterstomp-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Marking as invalid, as disks-admin was removed from gnome-system-tools in ubuntu a long time ago.

Changed in gnome-system-tools:
status: Confirmed → Invalid
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