** Package changed: gparted (Baltix) = ubuntu
** No longer affects: ubuntu
** Changed in: gparted (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete = Fix Released
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** Description changed:
- When installing Flight 4 and using the partitioning tool, I clicked on
- the unallocated space and then clicked the New button to add a
- partition. The next dialog box only allows me to add an 'msdos label'.
+ When using the GParted partitioning tool, I clicked on the
Isn't this just a different way of implementing the same feature and not
necessarily a bug.
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'create msdos label' in partitioner unclear
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/32479
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https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422070
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=579266
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc725671.aspx
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'create msdos label' in partitioner unclear
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/32479
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If I understand this problem correctly, it was resolved by the following two
bug fixes:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422070
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=579266
** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #422070
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422070
** Bug
adding my voice to the chorus. I'm not a guru at low-level disk
operations, but I've toasted my share of irrecoverable data. I am also
confused why it defaults to create an MSDOS partition table on a Linux
box.
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'create msdos label' in partitioner unclear
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On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 08:43:55PM -, itismike wrote:
adding my voice to the chorus. I'm not a guru at low-level disk
operations, but I've toasted my share of irrecoverable data. I am also
confused why it defaults to create an MSDOS partition table on a Linux
box.
Because, unless you
The term disk label is very unintuitive for people with Windows
background. It sounds almost like volume label — but means an entirely
different thing! I was close to erasing the partition table once because
of this similarity when all I wanted was changing a label for a
partition.
Microsoft
Well, it *is* an MS-DOS disk label... ;)
Calling it a PC partition label means that people will get confused in
the future when more and more PCs will use GPT by default (as Apple's
PCs already do).
Maybe calling it an MS-DOS compatible disk label would be the most
correct?
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Same as above, ended up here because i got confused,, why would i create a
msdos partitiontable..hmm.
Maybe something for the papercuts team
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** Also affects: gparted (Baltix)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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For what it's worth, I'm a native English speaker and I ended up here
because I was confused why an msdos label is used on a Linix-only setup.
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'create msdos label' in partitioner unclear
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A) Isn't this just a different way of implementing the same feature and
not necessarily a bug. A drive needs a disk label before it can be
partitioned so if the drive has no disk label gparted offers to create
one. The only problem lies in not explaining that the drive has no disk
label and that
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