[Bug 1313600] Re: gparted crashes when trying to resize fat32 partition on live USB

[Simon Dalley]

I've encountered parted and gparted crashing on FAT resize too.

This looks like GNU libparted bug #16338 . There is a patch for it:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2014-04/msg00013.html

gparted-0.19.0 includes this fix, and will hopefully be in utopic. It's
in the latest SystemRescueCd-4.3.0 which I used without problems to
shrink the FAT32 partition on my kubuntu-live on a memory stick. (This
allowed me to create a separate FAT32 /work partition which is then easy
to use for moving files on and off kubuntu-live.)

Who can I ask sweetly to backport gparted-0.19.0 into Trusty?

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Title:
  gparted crashes when trying to resize fat32 partition on live USB

Status in “gparted” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I used 32GB Transcend DataTraveler USB flash. Deleted persistence file and tried to resize partition in Gparted. It crashed when applying changes. The console output was: 
  *** Error in `/usr/sbin/gpartedbin': malloc(): smallbin double linked list corrupted: 0x0000000000b13160 ***
  Aborted (core dumped)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: gparted 0.18.0-1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Apr 28 15:41:30 2014
  SourcePackage: gparted
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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