[Bug 321938] [NEW] Intrepid: gparted produces broken NTFS partition

Tue Jan 27 16:36:20 UTC 2009

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: ntfs-3g

This relates to Ubuntu 8.10 64-Bit and the gparted 3.8.0 that ships with
Ubuntu 8.10.

I tried to re-format an external Freecom Mobile Drive Classic 2.5" 500GB
USB-2.0 HDD drive that had a broken filesystem, apparently due to a
crash of Ubuntu's kvpm (http://www.kde-
apps.org/content/show.php/kvpm?content=98298).

Trying to format this HDD with gparted in ext3, the first time gparted
made my whole system freeze completely. After reboot, I tried to format
the HDD again and gparted told me that everything had been formatted
fine. However, after refreshing, gparted told me that this HDD had an
"unknown filesystem". I then formatted it NTFS and gparted again told me
everything was fine. When trying to copy some files onto this HDD,
however, Ubuntu stopped copying and reported an I/O error. Checking on a
Windows system as suggested by Ubuntu, I then noticed that the
filesystem created by gparted was inconsistent (chkdsk /f).

1- gparted should not tell you that it has produced an ok NTFS file system if actually it has not.
2- gparted should perform re-partitioning operations irrespective of whether the prior FS on the HDD is ok or not.

** Affects: ntfs-3g (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Intrepid: gparted produces broken NTFS partition
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