Bug#732068: Can't format external USB partition / device

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/13/2013 4:56 PM, Fabián Rodríguez wrote: This bug report mentions a possible workaround + patch in Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/util-linux/+bug/1046665 Say what? It doesn't seem to say anything of the sort.

Bug#732068: Can't format external USB partition / device

This bug report mentions a possible workaround + patch in Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/util-linux/+bug/1046665 It also mentions updating util-linux to 2.23 should work: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/util-linux/+bug/1012081 There is already a bug report in Debian