Yes, we're ahead of upstream on this one. I spoke with yarly on IRC and
it turned out his issue was that the partition he was trying to
manipulate was mounted at the time. Closing this bug.
** Changed in: gparted (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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Request backport of gparted 0.5.2-9 (I
The version of parted included with Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx does include
similar patches to restore the BLKPG capability which enables editing
partitions on a device that has other partitions mounted, or active LVM
partitions.
The patch that Ubuntu used is described in the ChangeLog
http://changel