[Bug 734129] Re: Gparted Remounting Drives

[Curtis Gedak]

Phillip, GParted uses the available utilities it can find to prevent
mounting of disks while GParted is running.

The script that starts GParted can be viewed at the following link:
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gparted/tree/gparted.in

GParted checks for hal-lock, udisks, and devkit-disks.  In the case of
recent Ubuntu versions, you are correct in that GParted will use "udisks
--inhibit".

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Title:
  Gparted Remounting Drives

Status in “gparted” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gparted

  Problem: Gparted remounts drives using the Ubuntu Netbook Remix 10.04
  after every step. This is extremely dangerous for drive data. If you
  do more than one thing (ie. move and then resize) gparted will move
  the partition and then remount all partitions, as of now I see gparted
  then giving errors when it comes tot he resize as it says the drive is
  mounted and it's not causing loss of data but I suspect a mid-
  partition editing remount is not a good thing.

  Expected Outcome: Gparted should not mount drives automatically, ever.
  I'm not sure if this is a gparted issue or if it's a Unity issue...I
  can't really test it on my other machine because I don't want to risk
  losing gigs of things. I'll try to give more details if you need me
  to.

  
  Thanks in advance

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
  Package: gparted 0.6.2-1ubuntu1.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-27.48-generic 2.6.35.11
  Uname: Linux 2.6.35-27-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: wl
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sat Mar 12 18:39:36 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gparted

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