Kde-partitionmanager doesn't currently work in F18 and higher due to a problem of kdelibs (solid) and udisks2 backend. See https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311408
Hi, I am confirming this behavior after installing fedora 18 on a new disk. The partition manager is showing mountable partition devices rather than the entire disk device in the devices list. Rather than seeing /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc in the device list, I am seeing /dev/sda5 /dev/sdb3 /dev/sdc1 where sda5 is a mountable NTFS Partition, sdb3 is a mountable NTFS partiton and sdc2 is an ext4 boot partition. Hardware is an ACER S3-951-6432 and drives are sda - SATA SSD sdb - USB to SATA bridge with Samsung drive sdb - USB to SATA bridge with Hitachi drive (Hitachi Easy Drive)
I'm still waiting for upstream kdelibs developers to solve the problem. For the moment using gparted is the only choice.
I just looked at the partitionmanager script in /usr/bin/, and noticed that the test for the hal_lock availability: HAL_LOCK=`which hal-lock` PARTITIONMANAGER_BIN=/usr/bin/partitionmanager-bin RUN_WITHOUT_LOCK=1 if [ "x$HAL_LOCK" != "x" ]; then $HAL_LOCK --interface org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage --exclusive --run "$PARTITIONMANAGER_BIN $*" && RUN_WITHOUT_LOCK=0 fi ASSUMES that "which" returns null when ut is not available. I believe that HAL_LOCK=`which hal-lock 2>/dev/null` would be a better choice. Note: Making that change did not fix the problem reported in this bug report, but I thought it might be related thereto.
kde-partitionmanager-1.0.3-11.20130624svn.fc19 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 19. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kde-partitionmanager-1.0.3-11.20130624svn.fc19
kde-partitionmanager-1.0.3-11.20130624svn.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kde-partitionmanager-1.0.3-11.20130624svn.fc18
Package kde-partitionmanager-1.0.3-11.20130624svn.fc19: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 19 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing kde-partitionmanager-1.0.3-11.20130624svn.fc19' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-11511/kde-partitionmanager-1.0.3-11.20130624svn.fc19 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
kde-partitionmanager-1.0.3-11.20130624svn.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
kde-partitionmanager-1.0.3-11.20130624svn.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.