Some more on this bug...just another account of it:
gnome-volume-manager tries to mount partitions currently being formatted by
GParted causing GParted to quit formatting and give an error.
Steps to reproduce:
1) Insert USB drive/thumbdrive (presumably any partition will work, whether
internal or external)
2) Watch it mount in Nautilus (if gnome-volume-manager set to automount drives)
then right-click it in the Places menu and select "Unmount"
3) Open GParted and select that disk/partition.
4) Delete current partition(s) then create a new partition and begin the format.
If gnome-volume-manager is set to automount by selecting "Mount removable
drives when hot-plugged"
it will try to mount the new partition while GParted is still trying to
create it, causing
GParted to quit and give an error:
"GParted 0.2.5
Delete /dev/sdb1 (fat32, 1.91 GiB) from /dev/sdb ( SUCCES )
========================================
Create Primary Partition #1 (fat32, 1.91 GiB) on /dev/sdb ( ERROR )
create empty partition ( SUCCES )
path: /dev/sdb1
start: 34
end: 4000184
size: 1.91 GiB
set partitiontype ( SUCCES )
create new fat32 filesystem ( ERROR )
mkdosfs -F32 -v /dev/sdb1
mkdosfs 2.11 (12 Mar 2005)
mkdosfs: /dev/sdb1 contains a mounted file system.
========================================"
This is important because gnome-volume-manager's default action is to automount
removable drives.
I have offered advice many times on Ubuntuforums.org to people experiencing
this problem. The quick fix is to
disable automounting when using GParted.
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gnome-volume-manager mounting Partition, while working with GParted
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/37768
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