Package: gparted
Version: 1.3.1-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
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* What led up to the situation?
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)?
When one uses GParted to format a partition with ext4, the following
command is used:
mkfs.ext4 -O ^64bit ...
* What was the outcome of this action?
The parameter `-O ^64bit` deactivates all 64-bit features of ext4.
Therefor, the maximum data that can be written to this partition will be about
16 TB.
GParted doesn't seem to check the drive size (my drive is 18TB or 16.3
TiB and still if was formatted with deactivated 64-bit features).
* What outcome did you expect instead?
GParted should not add archaic options without asking the user for
consent, especially ones that cannot be revised after there is data in that
partition.
I realize this i probably a bug to be files upstream. However, Debian
bugtracker should also be aware of it imho, especially as the version of
GParted bundeled to Debian 12 is quite outdated - maybe this bug has been fixed
in newer versions already, maybe not.
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.11
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: arm64 (aarch64)
Foreign Architectures: armhf
Kernel: Linux 6.12.34+rpt-rpi-2712 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages gparted depends on:
ii gparted-common 1.3.1-1
ii libatkmm-1.6-1v5 2.28.3-1
ii libc6 2.36-9+rpt2+deb12u12
ii libcairomm-1.0-1v5 1.14.4-2
ii libgcc-s1 12.2.0-14+deb12u1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.74.6-2+deb12u6
ii libglibmm-2.4-1v5 2.66.5-2
ii libgtk-3-0 1:3.24.38-2~deb12u2+rpt7+rpi1
ii libgtkmm-3.0-1v5 3.24.7-1
ii libpangomm-1.4-1v5 2.46.3-1
ii libparted-fs-resize0 3.5-3
ii libparted2 3.5-3
ii libsigc++-2.0-0v5 2.12.0-1
ii libstdc++6 12.2.0-14+deb12u1
ii libuuid1 2.38.1-5+deb12u3
ii policykit-1 122-3
gparted recommends no packages.
Versions of packages gparted suggests:
pn dmraid <none>
ii dmsetup 2:1.02.185-2
ii dosfstools 4.2-1
ii e2fsprogs 1.47.0-2
ii exfatprogs 1.2.0-1+deb12u1
pn gpart <none>
pn jfsutils <none>
pn kpartx <none>
pn mtools <none>
ii ntfs-3g 1:2022.10.3-1+deb12u2
pn reiser4progs <none>
pn reiserfsprogs <none>
pn udftools <none>
ii xfsprogs 6.1.0-1
pn yelp <none>
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