GNU Parted 1.6.11 - partition editor

[Gordon Darling]

GNU Parted 1.6.11

A partition editor, for creating, destroying, resizing and copying
partitions.

About:
GNU Parted (gparted) allows you to create, destroy, resize, and copy
partitions. Supported partition types include ext2, FAT (FAT16 and FAT32),
and Reiserfs filesystems and Linux swap devices. Supported disk labels
include MS-DOS and PC98 partition tables, Sun and BSD disk labels,
Macintosh partition maps, and raw access. Parted is useful for creating
space for new operating systems, reorganising disk usage, copying data
between hard disks, and disk imaging.

Changes:
This release no longer kludges IOCTLs under Linux 2.6. A trivial patch to
move pointer dereferences to after "not-NULL" assertions was applied.

Release focus: Minor bugfixes
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Project URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnuparted/

Tar/GZ: http://freshmeat.net/redir/gnuparted/30277/url_tgz/parted

Regards
Gordon

 

[Richard Steven Hack]

GNU Parted 1.6.11

Changes:
This release no longer kludges IOCTLs under Linux 2.6. A trivial patch to
move pointer dereferences to after "not-NULL" assertions was applied.

I was going to ask if this fixes the problem with kernel 2.6 where
installing Fedora Core 2 or Mandrake 10 on a Windows 2000 or XP
dual-boot situation causes Windows to fail to boot because there are
partition table entries that Windows wants and parted does not provide
"correctly" because of the changes in drive geometry reporting in
kernel 2.6.

But I just browsed a bit on the parted mailing list posts for July and
it doesn't look like it. It looks like parted is recognized to have
more than one bug related to this and it seems no one has a clue to
fix them reliably in all cases.

This is pathetic.

I mean, they're asking stuff like "Are there any non-512-byte
partition tables?" The answer was: Yup. You'd think by now they
would now that if they're writing a partition manager.

My personal advice is to avoid using parted like the plague. It's
almost as bad as Partition Magic - which has yet to be able to read my
partition table AT ALL even though Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Linux
- as well as every other partition manager I use - all have
absolutely no problem with it.