Bug 59825

Summary: gfloppy produces corrupt ext2 filesystem
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Need Real Name <john_larkworthy>
Component: gnome-utilsAssignee: Jonathan Blandford <jrb>
Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM QA Contact: Aaron Brown <abrown>
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Version: 3.0CC: ddumas
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Hardware: i686   
OS: Linux   
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output from e2fsck following execution of gfloppy.
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Output from 'e2fsck -f -n /dev/fd0' after formatting floppy with gfloppy. none

Description Need Real Name 2002-02-13 18:13:27 UTC 
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Description of problem:
gfloppy from the menu->programs->utils->gfloppy and electing to use the ext2
file system format produces a floppy which cannot be removed and mounted later.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.insert floppy into drive
2. run menu->programs->utils->gfloppy from GNOME desktop
3. select ext2 file high density 3.5" discs (1.44M).
4. press  format.
5. answer yes to format and no to format more disks
6. check disk format using /sbin/e2fsck -f /dev/hd0
	

Actual Results:  lots of errors reported by e2fsck see attached created by 
/sbin/e2fsck -f -n /dev/hd0


Expected Results:  e2fsck verifies format OK.
disk can be removed and re-inserted with Nautilus finding the correct file
system on the floppy.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Need Real Name 2002-02-13 18:14:47 UTC 
Created attachment 45564 [details]
output from e2fsck following execution of gfloppy.
Comment 2 Havoc Pennington 2002-02-24 16:50:48 UTC 
Have you tried it with more than one floppy disk? At least 1 in 10 floppy disks
are just broken...
Comment 3 Need Real Name 2002-02-26 12:33:26 UTC 
I have tried this on 2 separate installations of RH7.2 (a low cost notebook and 
a home built desktop). I have tried 3 diferent floppies (2 on the desktop and 1 
on the notebook) all with the same result.
The floppies seem to pass the low level format and the final check for bad 
blocks (as reported by gfloppy) following the creation of the ext2 file system.
I am puzzled that this only seems to be a problem on these disks when using 
gfloppy and that mke2fs does not show this problem.
Comment 4 Chris Kloiber 2003-10-31 22:09:48 UTC 
Created attachment 95641 [details]
Output from 'e2fsck -f -n /dev/fd0' after formatting floppy with gfloppy.
Comment 5 Daniel Reed 2004-02-09 16:50:02 UTC 
Filed upstream at: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133904