I observed this bug in Ubuntu 16.04 with GNOME Disks 3.18.3, trying to
format a FAT32 partition on a USB drive.
However, instead of giving an error message, Disks crashed completely.
As soon as I entered a volume label of 11 characters or less, the format
succeeded.
** Changed in: gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu)
Status: Expired => New
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Title:
SD format operation crashes if volume label is more than 11 characters
long
Status in gnome-disk-utility package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Binary package hint: gnome-disk-utility
I did a format on a 2GB SD card by right clicking on the SD card icon
and selecting format, under FAT windows/linux compatible file system
settings. It then asks you what you'd like the volume label to be -
if you type in anything over 11 characters, the process then errors
out - but with an error message which does not hint to the user that
the real problem is their length volume label.
A good fix may be to limit the label max length on the input field, or
to give a more helpful error message.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: gnome-disk-utility 2.30.1-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Nov 28 18:39:54 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/palimpsest
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-disk-utility
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