It appears that GParted is unable to detect the mount point of the root filesystem. The partition in question is the last primary partition and is formatted ext4. Initially I thought it was an ext4 problem, but I have two other ext4 partitions that GParted detects just fine. I believe it has something to do with /dev/root being a link or perhaps hal/udev, but I really don't know. Interestingly, though, parted does not recognize the filesystems as ext4, only ext3. bowerad1@PC070212 ~ $ mount rootfs on / type rootfs (rw) /dev/root on / type ext4 (rw,noatime,barrier=1,data=ordered) proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec) rc-svcdir on /lib64/rc/init.d type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,size=1024k,mode=755) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec) debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec) udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,size=10240k,mode=755) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,gid=5,mode=620) shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec) /dev/sdb3 on /home type ext4 (rw,noatime) /dev/sda4 on /net type ext4 (rw,noatime) usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,devmode=0664,devgid=85) binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/bowerad1/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=bowerad1) bowerad1@PC070212 ~ $ sudo fdisk /dev/sdb Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x087ab05d Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 7 56196 83 Linux /dev/sdb2 8 139 1060290 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sdb3 140 6667 52436160 83 Linux /dev/sdb4 6668 30401 190643355 83 Linux bowerad1@PC070212 ~ $ sudo emerge --info Portage 2.1.6.8 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.3.3, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.28-gentoo-r3 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.28-gentoo-r3-x86_64-Intel-R-_Xeon-R-_CPU_X5460_@_3.16GHz-with-glibc2.2.5 Timestamp of tree: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 01:45:03 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p10-r1 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.7 dev-lang/python: 2.5.4-r2 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.2-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.3-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.19.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.28-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo" LANG="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j8" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 avahi bash-completion berkdb branding bzip2 cairo caps cddb cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dvd dvdr eds encode exif fam ffmpeg flac fuse gdbm gif gnome gnome-keyring gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv java java6 jpeg kerberos ldap libedit libnotify lzma lzo mad midi mmap mmx mng mono mp3 mpeg mudflap multilib nautilus ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg openal opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds profile pulseaudio python readline samba sdl session slang spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg symlink sysfs syslog tcpd theora threads tiff truetype unicode usb vorbis wmf x264 xattr xml xorg xpm xulrunner xv xvid zeroconf zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv vesa" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Run GParted 2. Select device 3. Actual Results: Mount point of root partition could not be found. Expected Results: It should be able to detect mount point.
did it ever showed it ? I mean that the /dev/root stuff is quite old (at least over a year) so it'd be interesting to have some reference to when (if) it ever worked.
(In reply to comment #1) > did it ever showed it ? I mean that the /dev/root stuff is quite old (at least > over a year) so it'd be interesting to have some reference to when (if) it ever > worked. > This is a brand new installation (about a week old), so I can't test against an older setup.
> This is a brand new installation (about a week old), so I can't test against an > older setup. > could you report this upstream and paste the URL here. Thanks.
There you go. BTW, the same behavior is in 0.4.4. The title of the bug may need to be changed. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=582687
thanks. I'll push 0.4.5 asap but I'm pretty sure the bug will still be there.
This is fixed in 0.4.7 and 0.4.8
