[Bug 1361594] Re: Memory corruption when runnning fs-check on a fat32-formatted partition

[Curtis Gedak]

Thanks Alexander for reporting back that GParted with libparted 3.2
successfully works with fat32.

With the GParted option "Partion -> Check", GParted first runs a file
system check and then it will perform a file system resize to maximum to
ensure the file sytem uses the entire partition.

It appears that the fat32 file system resize fails with some versions of
libparted, specifically the version currently employed in Ubuntu 14.04.

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Title:
  Memory corruption when runnning  fs-check on a fat32-formatted
  partition

Status in “gparted” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  What you expected to happen:
  I expected a sucessfull filesystem check of the fat32-partition.

  
  What happened instead:
  This:

  $ sudo gparted
  ======================
  libparted : 2.3
  ======================

  *** Error in `/usr/sbin/gpartedbin': malloc(): memory corruption: 0x0000000001129ea0 ***
  Aborted (core dumped)

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  I started the application, chose the partition I wanted to check for errors and then started the check - and this happens, every time.

  
  --- More info
  $ lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
  Release:	14.04

  $ apt-cache policy gparted
  gparted:
    Installed: 0.18.0-1
    Candidate: 0.18.0-1
    Version table:
   *** 0.18.0-1 0
          500 http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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