I attempted to reformat a USB2 flash thumb drive with QTparted
(this always worked fine on a 1cpu computer).
First flash drive showed its partition, it's ok.
I clicked on the 2nd flash drive, it said scanning partitions 100%, locked up.
I hit close, it said not responding; I hit kill, QTParted window closed.
I restarted qtparted, got the same result 3 more times; killed each one.
now at 100% cpu load - all 4 cpu's!
I had to kill 4 copies of qtparted in root console.
mount ok - drive still has its good fat32 partition.
unmount ok.
mkfs -t ext3 worked fine, but desktop icon quit.
mount from root console worked.
Is this a QTPartEd threadsafe bug? Is it doing a fsck?