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[Ilan Tal <1962467@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I just want to add that today 31-Dec-2023 I was having a lot of trouble reformatting a disk on key.
I used gparted and tried to format to fat32 and it complained not having dosfstools and mtools, so that it couldn't format correctly. I looked with syaptic and dosfstools was installed.
I finally came across your post and installed mtools.
I fired up gparted again, and the problem was gone!

What I read on other posts was that I needed to do the work on a Windows
machine, which wasn't exactly appealing. Your post saved the day for me.
Thanks.

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Title:
  Gparted off the LiveDVD wants package mtools added in order to display
  EFI partition correctly

Status in gparted package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in xubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Starting up this weekend's Live DVD of Xubuntu, trying to inspect the
  partitions on the drive using Gparted, it complains it wants package
  mtools added in order to display EFI partition correctly.

  I exit Gparted, add it to the Live session via:
  sudo apt-get install mtools

  Once that finishes, I restart Gparted, and no more error in the row
  containing the EFI partition.

  I just completed a load off a fresh boot of the same DVD, the same
  error opening Gparted did not happen. Perhaps the Live installer added
  the package dynamically since it was instructed to provision an EFI
  partition? Not sure.

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