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

[Phillip Susi]

Since this bug was assigned to the wrong package for 4 years, and likely
was a hardware problem, I'm going to close it now.  If you still have
the problem, please run sudo smartctl -a on the drive in question and
provide the output.


** Package changed: linux-ntfs (Ubuntu) => gparted (Ubuntu)

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

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Title:
  Intrepid: gparted produces broken NTFS partition

Status in “gparted” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  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.

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