Public bug reported:
While formatting my 16GB usb stick in natillus with right click menu
command "Format device" produces a partition table like this:
Befehl (m für Hilfe): p
Medium /dev/sdk1: 15,1 GiB, 16257261568 Bytes, 31752464 Sektoren
Einheiten: sectors von 1 * 512 = 512 Bytes
Sektorengröße (logisch/physisch): 512 Bytes / 512 Bytes
I/O Größe (minimal/optimal): 512 Bytes / 512 Bytes
Typ der Medienbezeichnung: dos
Medienkennung: 0x2052474d
Gerät Boot Start Ende Sektoren Größe Id Typ
/dev/sdk1p1 6579571 1924427647 1917848077 914,5G 70 DiskSecure
Multi-Boot
/dev/sdk1p2 1953251627 3771827541 1818575915 867,2G 43 unbekannt
/dev/sdk1p3 225735265 225735274 10 5K 72 unbekannt
/dev/sdk1p4 2642411520 2642463409 51890 25,3M 0 Leer
My USB Stick is only 16gb, while the partition table shows about 1,6
TB!!
This is the seconds time, I observe this! The first formatted usb stick
was unusable since then!!
Operating system is Ubuntu 16.4.4:
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS
Release: 16.04
Codename: xenial
** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1767989
Title:
Formatting usb stick produces invalid partition table / destroys usb
stick
Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
While formatting my 16GB usb stick in natillus with right click menu
command "Format device" produces a partition table like this:
Befehl (m für Hilfe): p
Medium /dev/sdk1: 15,1 GiB, 16257261568 Bytes, 31752464 Sektoren
Einheiten: sectors von 1 * 512 = 512 Bytes
Sektorengröße (logisch/physisch): 512 Bytes / 512 Bytes
I/O Größe (minimal/optimal): 512 Bytes / 512 Bytes
Typ der Medienbezeichnung: dos
Medienkennung: 0x2052474d
Gerät Boot Start Ende Sektoren Größe Id Typ
/dev/sdk1p1 6579571 1924427647 1917848077 914,5G 70 DiskSecure
Multi-Boot
/dev/sdk1p2 1953251627 3771827541 1818575915 867,2G 43 unbekannt
/dev/sdk1p3 225735265 225735274 10 5K 72 unbekannt
/dev/sdk1p4 2642411520 2642463409 51890 25,3M 0 Leer
My USB Stick is only 16gb, while the partition table shows about 1,6
TB!!
This is the seconds time, I observe this! The first formatted usb
stick was unusable since then!!
Operating system is Ubuntu 16.4.4:
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS
Release: 16.04
Codename: xenial
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