Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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Title:
Palimpsest will not properly format large (>2.2TB) drive
Status in “gnome-disk-utility” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Hi,
I tried to format my new portable WD Green 3TB drive as a single ext4
partition using palimpsest. This it did and seemed to work on my local
computer. However upon moving this drive another Ubuntu computer the
device was unrecognised and threw up scary errors about superblocks
missing. Upon further investigation I found that palimpsest had not
partitioned the disk or partitioned the disk improperly. There is a
more detailed account of the whole story here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1959986
Bug:
Palimpsest is not able to handle formatting a drive/partition larger than
2.2TB. I think that palimpsest created a MBR for the drive even though it is
too big to use that and must use GPT (or something else) to work properly. OR
it created no partition table. In any case the partition/filesystem structure
was not proper and was unreadable to other systems. There was no notice from
the program that the filesystem was being created in a non-standard way.
What should happen:
Palimpsest should create a GPT partition table for drive larger than 2.2TB.
Perhaps this could be done by calling the program gdisk
http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/index.html
Or, if that is unfeasible an error message should be shown indicating that
this program cannot format larger than 2.2TB and that the user must make
smaller partition or use something else (gdisk)
FYI
Linux 2.6.32-41-generic #89-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 27 22:18:56 UTC 2012 x86_64
GNU/Linux
Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS \n \l
gnome-disk-utility: Installed: 2.30.1-1
The other laptop I was using that at first could not read the drive
was also Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS but a 32bit Dell Inspiron 1450 laptop
computer
The hard drive in question is Western Digital WDC WD30EZRS 3.0TB firmware
80.00A08
it is in a NextstarCX portable enclosure connected via eSATA to the 64bit
system or USB for the Dell laptop
Thank You, let me know if you need any clarification.
Russell
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