[Bug 503125] Re: gparted allows user to overwrite active mounted partition

[Phillip Susi]

Based on Curtis' comments, and my attempts to reproduce this ( got the
warning ), I'm marking this bug as fixed.


** Changed in: gparted (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Fix Released

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Title:
  gparted allows user to overwrite active mounted partition

Status in “gparted” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gparted

  I wanted to create a FAT-16 partition on a USB stick and pulled up
  gparted on this Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty" system. I THOUGHT I had chosen
  /dev/sdc or whatever the USB stick had come up with, but apparently I
  still had /dev/sda selected.

  Being somewhat familiar with the command-line parted I assumed
  (WRONGLY) that gparted would NOT let me touch the mounted filesystem.
  parted is very strict about it.

  HOWEVER when you choose 
    Device --> Create Partition Table 
  gparted will allow you to blow away the ACTIVE MOUNTED partition on your system. gparted warns you that it will erase all data on the device, which of course isn't completely true... but I think it should instead put up a warning that the user has chosen an active mounted filesystem and offer to unmount it before blowing the partition table away. AND if the partition won't unmount PLEASE DON'T have gparted do anything to it!!!

  Fortunately I can attest that Ubuntu continues to run without a valid
  partition table on its root filesystem. I was able to back up my data,
  boot from a Live CD, and use the CLI parted utility to "rescue" the
  old root, home, and swap partitions. fsck wasn't happy with the block
  counts (the sizes were off by one block on each partition), but I
  haven't seen any lasting damage. (Yet.)

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
  ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/gparted
  InterpreterPath: /bin/dash
  Package: gparted 0.4.3-0ubuntu1
  ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gparted
  Uname: Linux 2.6.28-17-generic i686

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