Public bug reported: Tried to format a brand new Kingston 512 GB SDXC card (http://www.kingston.com/en/flash/sd_cards) in ext4 using GParted, for storing user data on it.
The card can be formatted with no problems with MS Windows 8 (TM) with the built-in formatter (exFAT). It can be written on completely in Windows with c't's h2testw (http://www.heise.de/download/h2testw.html) with no errors, except some notice that due to some NTFS properties 1 MB is reserved and therefore this MB cannot be written on. However, when using GParted or KDE's partitionmanager or gnome-disk- utility, formatting never comes to en end. Steps taken: 1) Writing a GPT or MS-DOS partition table on the card (no obious problems). 2) a) Creating partition using all the space shown as available OR 2) b) creating partition using everything except 10 MB. 3) Starting 2) a) OR 2) b). Result: The above-mentioned formatting tools lock up. When I tried to lock format the first times last year, sometimes even the whole system (including mouse) froze. This has not happened after updating the kernel to Ubuntu 4.2.0-25.30-generic 4.2.6, so maybe it has something to do with the kernel. The machine is a DELL Latitude 3150 running Kubuntu 15.10. Please tell me if you need any further information. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10 Package: gparted 0.19.0-3build1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-25.30-generic 4.2.6 Uname: Linux 4.2.0-25-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu5 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Jan 29 15:55:40 2016 ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/gpartedbin InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-01-16 (12 days ago) InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=de_DE PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gparted UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) ** Affects: gparted (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug wily ** Summary changed: - GParted, partitionmanager, locks up when formatting Kingston 512 GB SDXC card + GParted, partitionmanager, gnome-disk-utility lock up when formatting Kingston 512 GB SDXC card -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1539652 Title: GParted, partitionmanager, gnome-disk-utility lock up when formatting Kingston 512 GB SDXC card To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gparted/+bug/1539652/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
