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Title: "Disks" formatted mounted disk ext4->NTFS without unmount, resulting in kernel panic Status in linux package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: gnome-disk-utility "Disks", version 3.6.1-1ubuntu1 System in question: uname -a = 'Linux scorpio 3.8.0-19-generic #29-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 17 18:16:28 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux' lsb_release -a = 'Distributor ID: LinuxMint Description: Linux Mint 15 Olivia Release: 15 Codename: olivia' (This is Linux Mint 15 MATE edition) lsblk = 'NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 0 298.1G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 15.3G 0 part / ├─sda2 8:2 0 2.8G 0 part [SWAP] ├─sda3 8:3 0 15.6G 0 part ├─sda4 8:4 0 7.9M 0 part └─sda5 8:5 0 264.5G 0 part /home sdb 8:16 0 465.8G 0 disk └─sdb1 8:17 0 465.8G 0 part └─md0 9:0 0 465.7G 0 raid1 sdc 8:32 0 698.7G 0 disk ├─sdc1 8:33 0 465.8G 0 part │ └─md0 9:0 0 465.7G 0 raid1 └─sdc2 8:34 0 232.9G 0 part /media/ed/Spare sdd 8:48 1 7.9G 0 disk └─sdd1 8:49 1 7.9G 0 part /media/ed/MEMSTICK Attempted to format partition in question (/dev/sdc2, /dev/sdb2 before reboot) from ext4 to NTFS, failed to unmount partition beforehand. Admittably a failure in proper user policy; but a frontend graphical program like "Disks" should know better than to have actually tried to preform said operation without doing an unmount first. Result was a partition which read 16EB (exabyte) ext3/ext4 in caja shell properties window. Attempt to unmount via caja shell resulted in kernel panic :( Clearly this is a very serious issue; anybody working on disk partioning could potentially make this mistake. Terminal format utilites would actually complain about mounted partitions-- the fact the "Disks" was able to format an in-use, mounted partition is very worrying. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1263257/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
