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[Pedro Villavicencio <pedro@xxxxxxxxxx>]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need
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** Changed in: gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Expired

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/613474

Title:
  Umlauts in fs-label cause actual label to be longer than indicated

Status in “gnome-disk-utility” package in Ubuntu:
  Expired

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gnome-disk-utility

  Umlauts apparently have to be encoded to be used in a file system
  label (e.g. "ä" becomes "M-CM-$"). This causes confusion when a long
  fs-label with at least one umlaut in it is chosen, because the
  resulting label is longer than allowed, although it doesn't look like
  it.

  Steps to reproduce:
  1. Open palimpsest
  2. Create a new partition, choose ext4
  3. Enter a long fs-label with at least one umlaut in it (the current german default is "Neuer Datenträger", which palimpsest shortens to "Neuer Datenträge" because of the 16 characters label limit)
  4. Create the partition

  Expected result:
  File system is created with the given label

  Actual result:
  Error message: "Error creating file system: helper exited with exit code 1: given file system label exceeds 16 characters"

  
  For comparison, this is what it looks like if done manually:
  $ sudo tune2fs -L "Neuer Datenträger" /dev/sdb1
  tune2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
  Warning: label too long, truncating.
  $ sudo tune2fs -l /dev/sdb1 | grep volume
  Filesystem volume name:   Neuer Datenträg
  $ sudo blkid /dev/sdb1
  /dev/sdb1: LABEL="Neuer DatentrM-CM-$g" UUID="785fab65-ddb0-49b5-9722-2eca589994c7" TYPE="ext4"

  Note that the resulting label is 20 characters long, whereas
  palimpsest limits it to 16 characters.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
  Package: gnome-disk-utility 2.30.1-1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-12.17-generic 2.6.35-rc6
  Uname: Linux 2.6.35-12-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Aug  4 16:09:49 2010
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha amd64 (20100602.2)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=de_DE.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gnome-disk-utility

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