[Bug 1962467] Re: Gparted off the LiveDVD wants package mtools added in order to display EFI partition correctly

[Michael Lueck]

Still present in Xubuntu 20220402 Daily jammy-
desktop-2022-04-02-amd64.iso

!Warning
Unable to read the contents of this file system!
Because of this some operations may be unavailable.
The cause might be a missing software package.
The following list of software packages is required for fat32 file system support:  dosfstools, mtools.

xubuntu at xubuntu:~$ dpkg -l | grep dosfstools
ii  dosfstools                            4.2-1build2                             amd64        utilities for making and checking MS-DOS FAT filesystems
xubuntu at xubuntu:~$ dpkg -l | grep mtools
xubuntu at xubuntu:~$

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Title:
  Gparted off the LiveDVD wants package mtools added in order to display
  EFI partition correctly

Status in gparted package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in xubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Starting up this weekend's Live DVD of Xubuntu, trying to inspect the
  partitions on the drive using Gparted, it complains it wants package
  mtools added in order to display EFI partition correctly.

  I exit Gparted, add it to the Live session via:
  sudo apt-get install mtools

  Once that finishes, I restart Gparted, and no more error in the row
  containing the EFI partition.

  I just completed a load off a fresh boot of the same DVD, the same
  error opening Gparted did not happen. Perhaps the Live installer added
  the package dynamically since it was instructed to provision an EFI
  partition? Not sure.

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