Bug 875377 - gparted forces vfat labels to uppercase
Summary: gparted forces vfat labels to uppercase
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora EPEL
Classification: Fedora
Component: gparted
Version: el6
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Deji Akingunola
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-11-10 21:33 UTC by Todd
Modified: 2014-03-16 02:18 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2014-03-16 02:18:42 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Todd 2012-11-10 21:33:11 UTC
Dear EPEL,

I am coming from the "community": Scientific Linux 6.3, 64 bit.

Would one of our intrepid heroes please fix this for me?

Currently in our version of gparted (0.6.0), on fat32 flash drives, the labeling utility converts labels to all upper case.  This is reported and solved by the following gparted bug report:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=625337

Currently, the only way I have to get lower case letters in labels is to reformat the drive:

        # mkfs.vfat -n MyCDs /dev/sdc1

I would really like to be able to change my labels without having to reformat.  As stated in the above gparted bug report, to solve this will require us to upgrade to GParted 0.11.0.  Would one of our heroes please re-spin this for us/me?  (Fedora 17 is currently on 0.11 if you need a SRPM.)

Many thanks,
-T



$ rpm -qi gparted
Name        : gparted                      Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 0.6.0                             Vendor: Fedora Project
Release     : 1.el6                         Build Date: Thu 01 Jul 2010 05:45:31 AM PDT
Install Date: Fri 03 Jun 2011 08:52:34 PM PDT      Build Host: x86-06.phx2.fedoraproject.org
Group       : Applications/System           Source RPM: gparted-0.6.0-1.el6.src.rpm
Size        : 3598093                          License: GPLv2+
Signature   : RSA/8, Thu 01 Jul 2010 01:57:06 PM PDT, Key ID 3b49df2a0608b895
Packager    : Fedora Project
URL         : http://gparted.sourceforge.net
Summary     : Gnome Partition Editor

Comment 1 Todd 2014-03-14 06:37:53 UTC
Would you guys please update this!  It is such a pain in the neck to have to reformat your sticks every time you want to change a label or lose all your work so you can boot a Fedora Live CD!

Comment 2 Todd 2014-03-16 02:18:42 UTC
Please reference the following posting on gparted's forum and close this bug as not-a-bug.

http://gparted-forum.surf4.info/viewtopic.php?id=14115

Many thanks, -T


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