This is to announce parted-3.1, a bug fix release that also reintroduces a minimal subset of the file system resizing capability that was removed in 3.0. It adds a new, separate library, libparted-fs-resize, that provides for resizing of FAT and HFS/HFS+ file systems.
See the NEWS below for a summary of noteworthy changes. Here is Parted's home page: http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/ For a summary of all changes and contributors, see: http://git.debian.org/?p=parted/parted.git;a=shortlog;h=v3.1 or run this command from a git-cloned parted directory: git shortlog v3.0..v3.1 (appended below) To summarize the 1500+ gnulib-related changes, run these commands From a git-cloned parted directory: git checkout v3.1 git submodule summary v3.0 Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/parted-3.1.tar.xz http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/parted-3.1.tar.xz.sig Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth: http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/parted/parted-3.1.tar.xz http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/parted/parted-3.1.tar.xz.sig [*] Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the .sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this: gpg --verify parted-3.1.tar.xz.sig If that command fails because you don't have the required public key, then run this command to import it: gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 7FD9FCCB000BEEEE and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command. This release was bootstrapped with the following tools: Autoconf 2.68b.1-36a2 Automake 1.11a Gettext 0.18.1 Gnulib v0.0-6913-g50bb21e Gperf 3.0.4 NEWS * Noteworthy changes in release 3.1 (2012-03-02) [stable] ** New features parted now supports up to 64 msdos partitions (was 16). The partition table format imposes no limit (it's simply a linked list), so we may raise it further, if needed. parted has improved support for partitionable loopback devices parted provides a new library, libparted-fs-resize, for resizing HFS+ and FAT file systems. This is the subset of the FS-manipulation functionality removed in parted-3.0 for which we have found no free alternative. That library provides only these entry points: ped_file_system_close ped_file_system_get_resize_constraint ped_file_system_open ped_file_system_resize so when using it you must also link with libparted. ** Bug fixes libparted: avoid an invalid free when creating many partitions in a GPT partition table. [bug introduced in parted-1.9.0] The msdos partition table claimed a maximum partition count of 16 but would allow you to go beyond that. This resulted in the kernel not being informed of those partitions. Corrected to enforce the limit. parted now exits nonzero for certain failures already diagnosed as "Error". For example, before this change, parted would exit successfully in spite of "Error: ...unrecognised disk label" and "Error:... both GPT primary and backup partition tables are corrupted". libparted: given a GPT table with a partition table array of length, say 9, (usually, there are at least 128 entries) and when run in interactive mode with the backup header not at the end of the device where it belongs, parted would offer to fix it by moving the backup header to the end. If you accepted, parted could corrupt both headers, truncating their on-disk PTE arrays. Now, parted handles this case. libparted: gpt_disk_duplicate now copies the flags over to the new disk object. Previously the flags would be undefined. libparted can now read partition tables with a number of partition array entries that is different from the default of 128. Before, it would fail to recognize them and could even read beyond the end of a heap-allocated buffer. libparted: no longer aborts (failed assertion) due to a nilfs2_probe bug [bug introduced in parted-2.4 with the addition of nilfs2 support] libparted: no longer aborts when reading a truncated GPT-formatted device [bug present at least as far back as RHEL4's parted-1.6.19] libparted: works with a two-component linux kernel version number like 3.0 [bug present since the beginning] libparted: strengthen the pc98 test so that it is much less likely to cause an MSDOS partition table to be mistakenly identified as pc98. [bug present since the beginning] libparted no longer gets a failed assertion when probing a partition with an HFS or HFS+ signature, but with invalid ->total_blocks and/or ->block_size values. parted now uses ext_range device sysfs attribute to determine maximum number of partitions the device can hold. With this change, parted now correctly informs kernel about new partitions on partitionable MD RAID devices. libparted: creating a new partition table on a device with an existing mac partition table could result in a failed assertion. ** Changes in behavior Floppy drives are no longer scanned on linux: they cannot be partitioned anyhow, and some users have a misconfigured BIOS that claims to have a floppy when they don't, and scanning gets hung up. parted: the mkpart command has changed semantics with regard to specifying the end of the partition. If the end is specified using units of MiB, GiB, etc., parted subtracts one sector from the specified value. With this change, it is now possible to create partitions like 1MiB-2MiB, 2MiB-3MiB and so on. Device-mapper devices ( LVM, dmraid ) no longer insert a 'p' between the base device name and the partition number unless the last character of the base device name is a digit. This brings parted into compliance with the partition naming of kpartx and "linux since the dawn of time", but differs from the way that dmraid 1.0.0-rc16-3 operates. A patch to correct dmraid has been submitted to ataraid-l...@redhat.com. Without this patch, parted and dmraid will both create duplicate partition devices named /dev/mapper/foo1 and /dev/mapper/foop1. Add the ability to set the boot flag on the GPT PMBR. This is needed for some BIOS systems that refuse to boot from GPT unless this is set. disk_set and disk_toggle commands can be used to set the pmbr_boot flag on the disk. The flag is also displayed in a new line, 'Disk Flags:' like this: Model: (file) Disk /home/bcl/disk.img: 4295MB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt Disk Flags: pmbr_boot Using -m the flags are added after the model name field: /root/disk.img:4295MB:file:512:512:gpt::pmbr_boot; ** Build-related "make dist" no longer builds .tar.gz files. xz is portable enough and in wide-enough use that distributing only .tar.xz files is enough. ================================================================ Here is a log of the commits since parted-3.0: Brian C. Lane (14): libparted: fix snap radius so that it is using half (#665496) libparted: don't allow values less than 1 (#665496) tests: add test for radius divide by 2 fix tests: add test for value less than 1 libparted: make pc98 detection depend on signatures tests: add tests for new pc98 signatures (#646053) libparted: copy flags when duplicating GPT partitions tests: add new test to check ped_disk_duplicate tests: t9030 wait for partition removal libparted: HFS/HFS+ probe: don't let a corrupt FS evoke failed assertion parted: when printing, also print the new disk flags tests: update tests for new disk flags output tests: add test for GPT PMBR pmbr_boot flag doc: update parted documentation Christoph Hellwig (1): tests: add FS-resize test driver H. Peter Anvin (1): libparted: simplify kernel version-parsing logic Jim Meyering (90): post-release administrivia libparted: accommodate two-component linux version number like 3.0 maint: prefer AC_PROG_LIBTOOL over slightly deprecated AM_PROG_LIBTOOL libparted: avoid invalid diagnostic in interactive mode gpt: don't abort for a truncated GPT-formatted device libparted: fix a bug in the nilfs2 probe function tests: test for the nilfs2 bug doc: mention the origin of the other two bugs build: avoid new syntax-check failure build: update gnulib to latest; adapt use of _GL_ATTRIBUTE_FORMAT maint: correct two comments in gpt.c tests: adjust a test to make its failure easier to diagnose parted: exit nonzero for certain failures already diagnosed as "Error" gpt: don't misbehave with e.g., a 9-entry partition array tests: rewrite/complete GPT-munging perl script tests: exercise the "GPT vs other-sized partition entry arrays" fixes tests: add a helper function tests: exercise and document the HFS-probe bug fix build: stop distributing gzip'd releases; xz is enough build: update gnulib submodule to latest maint: adjust the URL that will appear in the generated announcement build: update gnulib submodule to latest maint: "make distcheck" now runs the root-only tests tests: fix test for udevadm tests: skip a test if Perl's Digest::CRC module is not installed maint: a little defensive programming in a test script tests: use "compare exp out", not "compare out exp" tests: two more of these: use "compare exp out", not "compare out exp" build: tweak how bootstrap manages ChangeLog build: avoid new float-to-double warnings build: mark functions with "const" or "pure" attribute, per gcc warnings build: configure.ac: use -Wno-format-nonliteral build: address a new "noreturn" suggestion build: update gnulib submodule to latest maint: update all copyright year number ranges tests: fix a bug in wait_for_dev_to_disappear_ helper function libparted: remove _blkpg_get_partition tests: skip loop-partitioning tests when ext_range is < 2 tests: fix misleading mkpart usage libparted: don't use _GL_ATTRIBUTE_CONST in public parted.h, ... gpt: eliminate four PED_ASSERT uses libparted: gpt: a smaller device need not render both headers invalid build: update to latest from gnulib build: appease gcc's -Werror=suggest-attribute=pure build: fix "make distcheck" failure tests: root-only test would fail to remove its loop device parted.h: use _GL_ATTRIBUTE_CONST and _GL_ATTRIBUTE_PURE in VC'd files maint: rename public .h files to .in.h build: correct my typo in preceding commit maint: hoist libparted/fs/*/Makefile.am into parent Makefile.am build: .gitignore: ignore more maint: remove "MAINTAINERCLEANFILES = Makefile.in" from Makefile.am's libparted: provide a new convenience function: ptt_geom_clear_sectors maint: avoid long-standing warnings from make: maint: remove useless BUILD_LINUX conditional build: use LT_INIT, to make bootstrap run libtoolize build: don't use -version for convenience libraries build: revert the recent "fix" to avoid make warnings about linux.lo maint: clean-up preparing for bug fix libparted: gpt: rewrite even a 9-partition-entry table properly tests: test for yesterday's bug fix libparted: gpt: avoid invalid free with many (~100) partitions tests: exercise today's bug fix, creating a GPT table with 128 entries tests: create 128 partitions also in the scsi-backed test libparted: remove ped_realloc, now unused tests: avoid relatively harmless new "make syntax-check" failure ui: rewrite disk_print_flags and partition_print_flags maint: adjust the URL that will appear in the generated announcement libparted: gpt: avoid heap-read-overrun when rewriting 9-PTE table tests: set PARTED_TEST_NAME, for valgrind maint: remove now-unused fat-related functions lib-fs-resize: re-add HFS and FAT file-system-related code maint: update copyrights in r/ lib-fs-resize: add wrappers for open,close,resize,get_resize_constraint lib-fs-resize: rewrite ped_file_system_clobber maint: remove r/hfs/DOC,HISTORY,TODO; add VERSION for new library lib-fs-resize: use linker script to expose only selected functions tests: test FAT and HFS file system resizing doc: mention HFS+/FAT file system resizing in NEWS maint: placate syntax-check wrt tests/fs-resize.c build: avoid non-srcdir build failure build,test: update gnulib, bootstrap and init.sh tests: skip failing use of mkfs.hfs unless using newer, fixed version tests: sanitize PATH; do not discard mkswap output doc: improve NEWS libparted: avoid unwarranted failed assertion during mklabel lib-fs-resize: remove unused probe-related code maint: update README-release to reflect we now have two libraries maint: bump library version to 2.0.0 version 3.1 Keshav P R (2): build: update AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR for non-srcdir-from-clone builds build: insert -I$(top_builddir)/include before -I$(top_srcdir)/include Matthew Garrett (1): gpt: add commands to manipulate pMBR boot flag Petr Uzel (19): dvh: factor out read_sector and use ptt_read_sector libparted: differentiate between plain files and loop devices libparted: improve support for partitions on loopback devices tests: add test for partitionable loop devices libparted: check return value from ped_geometry_init parted: remove obsolete comments build: ignore more generated files libparted: optimize _disk_sync_part_table libparted: do not call _device_get_partition_range() twice maint: unmark PedDeviceType as deprecated libparted: do not omit last sector when creating full-dev geometry tests: verify that 'udevadm settle' is available doc: update manpage parted: make a warning message more informative parted: mkpart: DWIM for IEC ending sector numbers like 2MiB and 9GiB tests: exercise the new feature build: gitignore tests/duplicate libparted: use ext_range to find out largest possible partition tests: test for partitions on mdraid Phillip Susi (9): Add partition separator only when required doc: add NEWS entry for "Add partition separator only when required" tests: try harder to clean up scsi_debug libparted: linux: exclude floppy from device scan libparted: remove _loop_get_partition_range libparted: remove has_partitions check to allow loopback partitions libparted: avoid the HDIO_GETGEO ioctl when possible libparted: enforce dos partition limit libparted: raise dos partition limit from 16 to 64 Richard W.M. Jones (3): parted: strlist print functions can now send output to any FILE * parted: write a few errors and warnings to stderr instead of stdout tests: fix the tests for the case where stdout/stderr is different Robert Herndon (1): gpt: prepare for tables with n_partition_array_entries != 128 Stefano Lattarini (2): tests: TEST_ENVIRONMENT simplified and made more robust tests: use more portable fd redirection in TESTS_ENVIRONMENT ----- also posted as: https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=7133
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