GParted stuck on "Scanning all devices"

Saturday, 23 August 2008

Ubuntu’s partition editor, GParted, usually scans all the hard drives when it starts. However, in some cases, it will get stuck on this “Scanning all devices” step indefinitely. By knowing what hard drive you want to edit, you can launch GParted specifically for that hard drive. Either go into run or a terminal, and run “gparted /dev/sda”, where “sda”, “sdb”, “sdc”, etc., is the identifier of your hard drive, and GParted will launch and immediately open that particular disk.

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Eric Jiang

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One Response to “GParted stuck on "Scanning all devices"”

  1. ben writes:
    No. 1 — February 8th, 2025 at 15:50

    While this does work, and gparted opens to the correct drive, it still scans all of the other drives (in 2025 at least). Also, if it finishes and you can finally do your operations, once they are finished, it scans all of the drives again.

    my version:
    GParted 1.0.0
    configuration –enable-libparted-dmraid –enable-online-resize
    libparted 3.3

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