I encountered a horrible experience with Nautilus and GParted

[William Grant]

Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Dylan McCall <dylanmccall at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  Is anyone else able to reproduce this?
> 
> Yes, I hate it.  It happens all the time when I use GParted on the
> live cd to partition because the partitioner in the installer has a
> terrible interface.  It then complains that it can't create the
> filesystem properly because Nautilus went and got in the way with
> mounting it automatically.  Nautilus needs to ignore it when a
> partitioning app is open.

It's even better when gparted doesn't notice, which happened in my case.
It somehow continued resizing whilst Nautilus remounted it, causing
massive corruption that took a lot of time and FAT-hacking to partially
recover from.

-- 
William Grant