Description of problem: "Information" of a partition does not show the hex partition ID Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 0.16.1 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. right click on partition 2. click on "Information" menu item 3. only text translation is displayed Actual results: File System: FAT16 Expected results: File System: 0700-FAT16 Additional info: GPT is 4 hex digits MSDOS is only 2 hex digits
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Do you still see this in the latest version?
(In reply to Mukundan Ragavan from comment #3) > Do you still see this in the latest version? ues v0.18 on F20 my f21 is a minimal install no dektop or gparted there
gparted-0.19.1-3.fc21 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 21. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gparted-0.19.1-3.fc21
Package gparted-0.19.1-3.fc21: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 21 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing gparted-0.19.1-3.fc21' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2014-17362/gparted-0.19.1-3.fc21 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
I will report this upstream.
Hello Robert, GParted currently goes out of it's way to avoid it's users having to deal the type of the partition. It is automatically set based on the type of the file system the user chooses to create or copy into a partition. Can you please explain your use case where you need to see the partition type? Will using 'fdisk -l /dev/sda' or 'gdisk -l /dev/sda' work for your use case? Thanks, Mike Fleetwood (GParted Developer)
Mike, Thanks for the comment here directly! Much appreciated.
gparted-0.19.1-3.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
still not fixed as of 0.19.1 in f21 testing I am familiar with gdisk et al, good stuff for scripting the provisioning of new media to a template, major revisioning of partitions, meh, not so much. Why should we be forced to bring up a separate command line utility to get the information that should be right there in front of one in gparted? I am not asking for a change in the partition type menu (you can do that if you feel ambitious and desire constancy), just the right click information pane >GParted currently goes out of it's way to avoid it's users having to deal the type of the partition. This sounds like a very Ubuntuish/Microsoftian attitude ala the Windows default of hiding filename extensions from the stupid lusers so the lil darlin's dont get "confused", except that I dont have the option of selecting the presentation style to get it back. It smacks of "my way or the highway" Please don't Microsoft your user base and try to "protect" us poor lusers from the "scary" technical details, more information is better. We are encouraged to participate in making linux better. Can you please cite a use case in which this would not make linux/gparted better?
I have looked at libparted, the library GParted uses to manipulate partitions. Libparted does not expose the types of partitions. It forces programs to merely specify the type of the file system to be stored in the partition and chooses the appropriate type based on that. This explains why GParted works the way it does. Without (1) writing code to read the partition tables directly or (2) run commands such fdisk and gdisk to report the partition types I don't see how GParted can get the partition types to report them. The MSDOS and GPT partition types are actually read by libparted, but hidden within the disk_specific void pointer in PedPartition struct. It is not exposed in the libparted API (http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/api/struct__PedPartition.html) libparted source dos.c:raw_part_parse() http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/parted.git/tree/libparted/labels/dos.c?id=v3.2#n932 libparted source gpt.c:_parse_part_entry() http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/parted.git/tree/libparted/labels/gpt.c?id=v3.2#n801 At the moment it is too much effort to add the partition type into the Information dialog to justify the work. Mike
I am closing this bug as upstream is the correct place for this. If anyone disagrees, please reopen. Thanks.