Hi All, FC23 and Scientific Linux 7.2 When I partition and format a drive with gparted in NTFS format, Linux can read it perfectly, but when I insert it into a Windows machine, Windows thinks it is unformatted But, if I format it in Windows, it reads perfectly in both operating systems. Please fix. Many thanks, -T
If it helps, this flash drive was formatted on Windows 7 Pro x64 SP1 to NTFS. It works perfectly in W7, FC23 x64, and SL 7.2 x64. This is from SL 7.2 # fdisk -l /dev/sdc Disk /dev/sdc: 31.6 GB, 31625052160 bytes, 61767680 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk label type: dos Disk identifier: 0x6e697373 This doesn't look like a partition table Probably you selected the wrong device. Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1 ? 1936269394 3772285809 918008208 4f QNX4.x 3rd part /dev/sdc2 ? 1917848077 2462285169 272218546+ 73 Unknown /dev/sdc3 ? 1818575915 2362751050 272087568 2b Unknown /dev/sdc4 ? 2844524554 2844579527 27487 61 SpeedStor Partition table entries are not in disk order I will upload a screenshot from gparted. (By the way, it is mounted, regardless of what gparted says.) -T
Created attachment 1154771 [details] gparted looking a a perfectly mounted ntfs drive regardless of what the screen shot says, this drive (/dev/sdc1) is mounted and operating perfectly
FC23 was 0.23 SL7 was 0.19
The screen shot in comment 2 shows the Information about /dev/sdc1 dialog which includes this warning: The device /dev/sdc1 doesn't exist Unable to read the contents of this file system! Because of this some operations may be unavailable. The cause might be a missing software package. The following list of software packages is required for ntfs file system support: ntfsprogs / ntfs-3g. For some reason GParted isn't able to read the usage of the file system. Hence only a size figure in the top right, rather than used and unused too. Please provide the following information so I can try to work out what is happening: Output from the following commands: cat /proc/partitions ls -l /dev/sdc* rpm -qa | fgrep ntfs parted /dev/sdc print blkid | grep sdc df grep ntfs /proc/mounts ntfsresize --info --force --no-progress-bar /dev/sdc1 Screen shot in GParted of View > File System Support showing the ntfs line. Thanks, Mike Fleetwood (GParted Developer)
Hi All, I upgrade gparted to 0.26 on FC24 Beta. 0.26 changed the partition ID over from 4F to 7. And now Windows 7 is happy. So corrected in 0.26. Thank you! # rpm -qa gparted gparted-0.26.0-3.fc24.x86_64 # fdisk -l /dev/sdc Disk /dev/sdc: 122 MiB, 127926272 bytes, 249856 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x9f59628e Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sdc1 2048 249855 247808 121M 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT *
Next release of what? gparted 0.27? Also, I partitioned and formatted a 350 GB drive with gparted 0.26 for NTFS and Windows coughed on it again. Apparently my test of 0.26 on a 128 MB flash drive was flawed. As soon as I got some modern size to the test drive: cough.
(In reply to Todd from comment #6) > Next release of what? gparted 0.27? > > Also, I partitioned and formatted a 350 GB drive with gparted 0.26 for NTFS > and Windows coughed on it again. Apparently my test of 0.26 on a 128 MB > flash drive was flawed. As soon as I got some modern size to the test > drive: cough. Todd, you closed the bug as nextrelease! :) I will try to reproduce this. So far, I have been unsuccesful ... :(
(In reply to Mukundan Ragavan from comment #7) > (In reply to Todd from comment #6) > > Next release of what? gparted 0.27? > > > > Also, I partitioned and formatted a 350 GB drive with gparted 0.26 for NTFS > > and Windows coughed on it again. Apparently my test of 0.26 on a 128 MB > > flash drive was flawed. As soon as I got some modern size to the test > > drive: cough. > > Todd, you closed the bug as nextrelease! :) You kids get off my lawn !!! I have a lawn ??? :'[ > I will try to reproduce this. So far, I have been unsuccesful ... :( This is what I did: 1) Got a 32 GB or larger drive I didn't mind wiping out. 2) erased the front of the drive with dd bs=4096 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc count=1000 3) fired up gparted (pressing the green arrow to commit) --> Device, Create Partition table, msdos --> Partition, New, 1 primary, ntfs --> Partition, Format, ntfs 4) go find a Windows 7 computer and try it out.
Thanks for posting the steps. I do not have a windows system at the moment. I will try it out tomorrow.
(In reply to Mukundan Ragavan from comment #9) > Thanks for posting the steps. > > I do not have a windows system at the moment. I will try it out tomorrow. I have a G-technology G-Drive EV coming for a customer with Windows 7 Pro x64: http://www.g-technology.com/products/g-drive-ev I like to boot into my Xfce direct install flash drive and use "gdisk" to remove the weird OSx GPT partitioning. (Wish gparted did that too. I will do an RFE for that some time soon). I have gparted 0.26 on that flash drive too, so I will attempt to ntfs it and report back.
When you get to the Windows machine, go into disk manager to look and see what you got: --> <win><R> --> Diskmgmt.msc Going back to Linux, if you erase the first part of the disk with dd (see my steps), you can go back into Windows Diskmgmt.msc again, partition and format for ntfs, then bring it back to Linux gparted and see the difference. You would think you could redo the disk with Diskmgmt.msc, but it won't have any part of it, so back to Linux and dd. You may want to have a Live DVD/USB handy. On a Live USB, do a "dnf upgrade gparted" to get to gparted 0.26
gparted-0.27.0-1.fc25 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 25. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-9110e35304
gparted-0.27.0-1.fc24 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 24. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-be8f7cacce
Used gparted-0.27.0-1.fc25 to write an "NTFS" formatted disk. Disk mounted fine in Windows XP SP3.
gparted-0.27.0-1.fc25 has been pushed to the Fedora 25 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-9110e35304
Just documenting the likely causes of this bug report for the record in case anybody stumbles across it. Nothing has changed in how GParted formats NTFS in a long time. Not between GParted 0.23.0 originally included in Fedora 23 and GParted 0.27.0. It uses the mkntfs command from the ntfsprogs package. https://git.gnome.org/browse/gparted/tree/NEWS?h=GPARTED_0_27_0 Either Todd had a local issue or possibly an update of the ntfsprogs package fixed mkntfs. Because of my analysis in comment 4 I lean towards the former.
Thanks Mike.
gparted-0.27.0-1.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-be8f7cacce
gparted-0.27.0-1.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
gparted-0.27.0-1.fc25 has been pushed to the Fedora 25 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.