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gpart scans a drive trying to guess the location of partitions when an MBR partition table is lost [1]. However the tool is unmaintained, takes hours or days of 100% CPU time to scan a drive and provides no progress indication [2][3][4]. We keep recommending killing the gpart process and using TestDisk [5] instead. Therefore remove Device > Attempt Data Rescue and the use of gpart from GParted. [1] Gpart https://github.com/baruch/gpart [2] Have you had a good or bad experience with Dev->Attempt Data Rescue? http://gparted-forum.surf4.info/viewtopic.php?id=17992 No good, only bad experiences using gpart were reported. [3] Gparted does not say anything http://gparted-forum.surf4.info/viewtopic.php?id=17749 Forum user reported waiting 48 hours with no progress indication. We recommended using TestDisk. [4] How cancel Data Rescue process? http://gparted-forum.surf4.info/viewtopic.php?id=18143 Forum user reported it will take 3 days to scan their external 480GB drive. We recommended using TestDisk instead. [5] TestDisk, Data Recovery https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk Closes !118 - Remove Attempt Data Rescue and use of gpart
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