Fair criticism, Phillip. Because I feel confident with these tools, I was just stating the configuration dictated through GParted (and asserting I was using the correct steps). However, without explaining the steps, you're not to know that I'm informed and doing the right thing, and I'm not helping you by leaving out the detail.
For reference, the exact same steps on a different model of thumb drive of the same size worked perfectly to create appropriate filesystems. On the problem memory stick, I did indeed successfully create a new partition table after zeroing the disk, and then went through a sequence of adding new partitions one by one, (one 128Mb swap, followed by the remainder of the 1GB disk as ext3) and the behaviour I'm confused by is to see GParted accept my request to create and then to format that ext3 partition, but every time, after apparently reporting success and forcing a reload of the view, the thumb drive shows the partition as 'unknown' rather than showing it as ext3. I'll keep experimenting and report back with more detailed steps and feedback when I can articulate the problem better. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/996188 Title: Gparted Hosed my USB Thumb Drive To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gparted/+bug/996188/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
