GNU bug report logs - #16885
Not recognizing FAT32 partition

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Package: parted;

Reported by: Edward Diener <eldlistmailingz <at> tropicsoft.com>

Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 00:04:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Phillip Susi <psusi <at> ubuntu.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Edward Diener <eldlistmailingz <at> tropicsoft.com>
To: bug-parted <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16885: Not recognizing FAT32 partition
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 16:26:50 -0500

On 2/27/2014 2:43 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:>
> On Feb 27, 2014, at 12:22 PM, Brian C. Lane <bcl <at> redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> parted's filesystem detection should not be depended on, it is for
>> cosmetic purposes only. I'm not sure what gparted is doing, but it
>> shouldn't be failing because of libparted's fs display.
>
> yes. gparted should be relying on libblkid, if it isn't already.

The final error mesage from 'libparted', as mentioned in the GParted 
forum discussion at 
http://gparted-forum.surf4.info/viewtopic.php?id=16878 is:

"Could not detect file system."
This bug report was last modified 11 years and 85 days ago.

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