Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gnome-disk-utility
This is a different than bug #440314 but I encountered it during my
exploration of the new Disk Utility.
The Disk Utility gave me the option of creating an NTFS partition on my
external disk. However when I clicked create it gave me this error:
"Error creating file system: helper exited with exit code 1: cannot
spawn 'mkntfs -f /dev/sdb1': Failed to execute child process "mkntfs"
(No such file or directory)"
mkntfs is a utility in the ntfsprogs package which is not installed on
my system. I have not uninstalled it, it was never present since I
installed Karmic Alpha 6 on the system.
The bug is not that this package wasn't installed by default. That may
be a bug I don't know. The bug here is that the utility allowed me to
select a filesystem type that it did not have the capability of
producing.
I would have expected that either it would remove the NTFS option in the
absence of the tools, or offer to install the tools.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Oct 1 22:05:01 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gnome-disk-utility 2.28.0-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-disk-utility
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic x86_64
** Affects: gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug
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Disk Utility offers to create NTFS partitions when 'ntfsprogs' is not installed
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/440319
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