[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#767457: Error creating partition

Michael Gilbert mgilbert at debian.org
Mon Nov 10 23:03:49 UTC 2014


> [...]
> Error creating partition
> Error wiping newly created partition /dev/sdf1: Command-line `wipefs
> -a "/dev/sdf1"' exited with non-zero exit status 1: wipefs: error:
> /dev/sdf1: probing initialization failed: No such file or directory
>  (udisks-error-quark, 0)
> [...]

I ran into the exact same problem just now creating a new partition on
a hard drive, probably a race condition.  It likely needs a loop
waiting for the new partition to really be available.

Found an easy enough workaround, run the suggested wipefs command
manually, then reopen gnome-disks.

Best wishes,
Mike



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