On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 15:36 +0000, Lawrence Rust wrote: > I don't agree, this is a bug either in the base version of e2fsprogs > used or in the Ubuntu patches. To prove this I built the latest > e2fsprogs-1.41.9.tar.gz from SourceForge and ran > While you don't agree, I'm afraid this is way things are.
There are two detectable filesystem metadata on your block device. If we prioritised the one that's right for you, we would have bugs from everybody who wanted the other one. > sudo /home/lvr/e2fs/sbin/blkid -c /dev/null /dev/sdb1 > /dev/sdb1: LABEL="boot" UUID="41584c58-0cef-4d78-acd1-9a01ebd87833" > TYPE="ext2" > > So the latest official tools have no difficulty in identifying the > partition and type. Not only that but the line in /etc/fstab has the FS > type fully specified so no excuses for not identifying it. > The official version of blkid comes from util-linux-ng, not from e2fsprogs. > Re. your suggestion to wipe and reformat - I stated earlier that I used > gparted to create this partition so that won't help. _All_ other major > Linux distros (suse, fedora, gentoo, mandriva, slackware) recognize this > partition - that must say something. > No they don't, all the current releases might - but then the current release of Ubuntu does too. All of the development releases have standardised on the new blkid from util-linux-ng (which behaves as vol_id used to). So you'll find that ALL other major distros, in their next release, do not report the contents of your block device. > This is a real killer bug for me. If Karmic ships with this bug then I > will have to jump ships. > Bon voyage. You'll find the same problem there too. Scott -- Scott James Remnant [email protected] -- unable to mount an ext2 partition by label or uuid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/428318 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
