I'm having the same problems. I have a 2tb external drive connected by USB. Formated to fat32 using OSX Disk Utility, Connected to Intrepid, Unmounted, then started gparted.
Keeps spinning on "Scanning all devices..." a ps -waux | grep dos gives these processes: sh -c dosfsck -a -v /dev/sdc1 dosfsck -a -v /dev/sdc1 -- Gparted freezes with external USB HD https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/121943 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs