Hi. On Fri, 11 Nov 2016 18:52:06 +0000 Brian <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri 11 Nov 2016 at 21:33:58 +0300, Reco wrote: > > > As for the original problem - gparted is a GNOME application, so it's > > expected to silently refuse doing potentially dangerous operations. > > And yet gparted(8) and the manual at > > http://gparted.org/display-doc.php%3Fname%3Dhelp-manual > > indicate setting a file system label is supported. Are we looking at a > bug in gparted? Beats me as I don't know C++ gparted is written in, nor have any desire to learn it. Plain C is enough for me, and there's strace for the cases when it does not. Presumably gparted checks if a partition is used by something (a mounted filesystem maybe?) and fails silently (i.e. makes a button inactive) if it considers such check successful. Whenever such check is justified, and whenever the implementation of the check is flawless is something left to be seen. Personally I'd say it's not worth the trouble to investigate the issue as dosfslabel should do the job without the (potentially dangerous) need to run GUI tool as root. There's a reason they use PolicyKit for nearly everything else which requires root in a modern GNOME, after all. Reco
