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and subject line gparted: Unable to format as only "cleared" is available
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regarding gparted: Unable to format as only "cleared" is available
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942571: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=942571
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: gparted
Version: 0.32.0-2
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
I've just purchased Seagate Expansion 4TB (STEA4000400) which comes with
a NTFS partition. It is essential to me to reformat it into Ext4, but
the only option offered by gparted is "cleared", all others are greyed
out.
The FAQ (https://gparted.org/faq.php) entry "9: Why are some menu items
disabled?" is not relevant to my problem.
I was also unable to find with Google any description of a similar
situation.
I will appreciate very much your suggestions how to quickly solve or
circumvent the problem.
Best regards
Janusz
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.1
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages gparted depends on:
ii libatkmm-1.6-1v5 2.28.0-2
ii libc6 2.28-10
ii libgcc1 1:8.3.0-6
ii libglib2.0-0 2.58.3-2+deb10u1
ii libglibmm-2.4-1v5 2.58.0-2
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.32-3
ii libgtkmm-2.4-1v5 1:2.24.5-4
ii libpangomm-1.4-1v5 2.42.0-2
ii libparted-fs-resize0 3.2-25
ii libparted2 3.2-25
ii libsigc++-2.0-0v5 2.10.1-2
ii libstdc++6 8.3.0-6
ii libuuid1 2.33.1-0.1
gparted recommends no packages.
Versions of packages gparted suggests:
pn dmraid <none>
ii dmsetup 2:1.02.155-3
ii dosfstools 4.1-2
ii e2fsprogs 1.44.5-1+deb10u2
pn gpart <none>
pn jfsutils <none>
ii kpartx 0.7.9-3
ii mtools 4.0.23-1
ii ntfs-3g 1:2017.3.23AR.3-3
pn reiser4progs <none>
pn reiserfsprogs <none>
pn udftools <none>
pn xfsprogs <none>
ii yelp 3.31.90-1
-- no debconf information
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,
Janusz S. Bien
emeryt (emeritus)
https://sites.google.com/view/jsbien
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--- Begin Message ---
Sorry for the delay in replying. gparted can not find the tools
required to manipualte the filesystems. Check that your PATH is set up
correctly to include /sbin. Given that it has been a few months, and
I'm pretty sure that is the problem rather than there being a bug, I'm
closing this report.
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