You are right. Disk Utility in the current version (see below) from Linux Mint 12.10 does not have this problem. But maybe it has something to do with the policy of only allowing LUKS to be formatted with EXT4. That is the only option. After that's done, you have to select the unlocked EXT4 partition to format it as something else, e.g. NTFS.
Sorry for getting back so late but it is not every day that I have a spare 4TB drive to format. $ sudo apt-cache show gnome-disk-utility Package: gnome-disk-utility Priority: optional Section: admin Installed-Size: 880 Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-disc...@lists.ubuntu.com> Original-Maintainer: Utopia Maintenance Team <pkg-utopia-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org> Architecture: amd64 Version: 3.6.1-0ubuntu1 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.31.18), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.5.8), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.18.0), libpwquality1 (>= 1.1.0), libsecret-1-0 (>= 0.7), libudisks2-0, dconf-gsettings-backend | gsettings-backend, udisks2 Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.7.2) Filename: pool/main/g/gnome-disk-utility/gnome-disk-utility_3.6.1-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 180382 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1083644 Title: Palimpsest does not support gparted GPT To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-disk-utility/+bug/1083644/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
