[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#732068: Can't format external USB partition / device

[Fabián Rodríguez]

This bug report mentions a possible workaround + patch in Ubuntu:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/util-linux/+bug/1046665

It also mentions updating util-linux to 2.23 should work:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/util-linux/+bug/1012081

There is already a bug report in Debian to update util-linux to
upstream's version (2.21+->2.24):
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=678446