[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#510001: lshal reports incorrect volume.label and volume.fstype after reformat

[Michael Biebl]

Hi Richard,

please don't forget to CC the bug report on replies.

Richard Prosper wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> You'll probably be glad to hear that when I got home and rebooted, lshal
> performed as I had originally assumed. Here's the snippet:
> 
> udi =
>   '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_632bf4bc_93ef_4dc5_b5df_00f340d1c16f'
> 
>   block.device = '/dev/sde1'  (string)
> ...
>   volume.fstype = 'ext3'  (string)
>   volume.fsusage = 'filesystem'  (string)
>   volume.fsversion = '1.0'  (string)
> 
> However... I'm still puzzled that the reformat (which in all probability
> occured in the same session in which the device was originally connected to
> the system, still as a vfat-formatted disk) was not picked up. I would have
> expected it to be, but maybe my expectations are at fault, here.
> 
> Probably gratuituous, below the output of `fdisk -l /dev/sde`:
> 
> # fdisk -l /dev/sde
> 
> Disk /dev/sde: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x00000000
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sde1               1      121601   976760001   83  Linux
> 
> Anyhow, my immediate problem is solved now that I have a work-around.
> Again, thanks very much for your quick & timely response; I hope I have not
> been too much of a bother. If I can return the fever, just let me know.
> 



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