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

[Aapo Rantalainen]

I encountered the same with external fat32 disk.

I tried it couple of times and got one more error:
gpartedbin: malloc.c:3695: _int_malloc: Assertion `(unsigned long) (size) >= (unsigned long) (nb)' failed.

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I tested upstream gparted from git (acbf08ce0c291348ba6900d440e9249f842180db), it gave different error, so I'm not sure is it affected or not. (Bad FAT: unterminated chain for \FSCK0052.REC.)

git clone git://git.gnome.org/gparted
cd gparted
./autogen.sh
./configure --prefix=`pw`/build
make
make install
cd build/sbin
./gparted

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Finally I got partition shrank with:
sudo dosfsck -w -r -l -a -v -t /dev/sdc1
and using parted.

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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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