Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition

From	Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition
Date	2016-11-11 20:10 +0100
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	Hi.

On Fri, 11 Nov 2016 18:52:06 +0000
Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:

> On Fri 11 Nov 2016 at 21:33:58 +0300, Reco wrote:
> 
> > As for the original problem - gparted is a GNOME application, so it's
> > expected to silently refuse doing potentially dangerous operations.
> 
> And yet gparted(8) and the manual at
> 
>   http://gparted.org/display-doc.php%3Fname%3Dhelp-manual
> 
> indicate setting a file system label is supported. Are we looking at a
> bug in gparted?

Beats me as I don't know C++ gparted is written in, nor have any desire
to learn it. Plain C is enough for me, and there's strace for the cases
when it does not.

Presumably gparted checks if a partition is used by something (a mounted
filesystem maybe?) and fails silently (i.e. makes a button inactive) if
it considers such check successful.

Whenever such check is justified, and whenever the implementation of
the check is flawless is something left to be seen.

Personally I'd say it's not worth the trouble to investigate the
issue as dosfslabel should do the job without the (potentially
dangerous) need to run GUI tool as root. There's a reason they use
PolicyKit for nearly everything else which requires root in a modern
GNOME, after all.

Reco

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Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-11 16:50 +0100
  Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-11 19:00 +0100
    Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2016-11-11 19:00 +0100
      Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2016-11-11 19:40 +0100
        Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-11 20:00 +0100
          Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2016-11-11 20:10 +0100
      Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-11-11 20:30 +0100
        Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2016-11-11 20:40 +0100
          Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-11-11 20:50 +0100
            Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2016-11-11 21:00 +0100
              Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-11 21:20 +0100
                Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-11-11 23:20 +0100
            Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2016-11-11 22:20 +0100
              Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-11-11 23:00 +0100
                Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2016-11-11 23:30 +0100
                Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-11-12 00:20 +0100
                Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition rhkramer@gmail.com - 2016-11-12 00:40 +0100
                Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-11-12 01:40 +0100
                Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition Joseph Loo <jloo20111002@gmail.com> - 2016-11-12 01:50 +0100
                Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-11-12 02:00 +0100
                Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-11-12 01:50 +0100
        Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-11 21:50 +0100
          Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-11 22:00 +0100
    Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-11 21:50 +0100
  Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-11-11 20:10 +0100
    Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-11 20:20 +0100
    Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2016-11-11 20:40 +0100
      Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-11 20:50 +0100
        Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2016-11-11 22:00 +0100
      Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition Seeker <seeker5528@comcast.net> - 2016-11-11 21:00 +0100
      Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-11 22:00 +0100
        Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2016-11-11 22:40 +0100
          Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-11 22:50 +0100
    Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-11 22:00 +0100
  Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2016-11-11 21:00 +0100
    Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-11 21:10 +0100
    Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-11 22:10 +0100
      Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-11 23:00 +0100
        Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-11-12 14:50 +0100
          Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-12 16:50 +0100
            Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-11-12 18:20 +0100
              Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2016-11-12 20:20 +0100
            Re: install recommended by default? (was: Gparted will not label...) Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-11-13 02:30 +0100
              Re: install recommended by default? (was: Gparted will not label...) David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-11-13 05:20 +0100
                Re: install recommended by default? Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-11-13 05:50 +0100
                Re: install recommended by default? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-13 14:40 +0100
                Re: install recommended by default? (was: Gparted will not label...) Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-11-13 12:20 +0100
                Re: install recommended by default? (was: Gparted will not label...) David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-11-13 14:10 +0100
                Re: install recommended by default? (was: Gparted will not label...) Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-13 15:00 +0100
                Re: install recommended by default? (was: Gparted will not label...) Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-11-13 22:40 +0100

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