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@@ -0,0 +1,1011 @@ +GNU parted NEWS -*- outline -*- + +* Noteworthy changes in release 3.6 (2023-04-10) [stable] + + Promoting alpha release to stable release 3.6 + +* Noteworthy changes in release 3.5.28 (2023-03-24) [alpha] + +** New Features + + Support GPT partition attribute bit 63 as no_automount flag. + + Add type commands to set type-id on MS-DOS and type-uuid on GPT. + + Add swap flag support to the dasd disklabel + + Add display of GPT disk and partition UUIDs in JSON output + + +** Bug Fixes + + Fix use of enums in flag limits by switching to using #define + + Fix ending sector location when using kibi IEC suffix + +* Noteworthy changes in release 3.5 (2022-04-18) [stable] + +** New Features + + Update to latest gnulib for 3.5 release + +* Noteworthy changes in release 3.4.64.2 (2022-04-05) [alpha] + +** Bug Fixes + + usage: remove the mention of "a particular partition" + +* Noteworthy changes in release 3.4.64 (2022-03-30) [alpha] + +** New Features + + Add --fix to --script mode to automatically fix problems like the backup + GPT header not being at the end of a disk. + + Add use of the swap partition flag to msdos disk labeled disks. + + Allow the partition name to be an empty string when set in script mode. + + Add --json command line switch to output the details of the disk as JSON. + + Add support for the Linux home GUID using the linux-home flag. + +** Bug Fixes + + Decrease disk sizes used in tests to make it easier to run the test suite + on systems with less memory. Largest filesystem is now 267MB (fat32). The + rest are only 10MB. + + Add aarch64 and mips64 as valid machines for testing. + + Escape colons and backslashes in the machine output. Device path, + model, and partition name could all include these. They are now + escaped with a backslash. + + Use libdevmapper's retry remove option when the device is BUSY. This + prevents libdevmapper from printing confusin output when trying to + remove a busy partition. + + Keep GUID specific attributes when writing the GPT header. Previously + they were set to 0. + +* Noteworthy changes in release 3.4 (2021-01-27) [stable] + + Include local gnulib change to version-etc.c date. + This means including a non-public gnulib commit in this release. + cfg.mk: disable submodule checks to work around broken upstream gnulib + +* Noteworthy changes in release 3.3.52 (2020-12-14) [alpha] + +** New Features + + Add a new partition type flag, chromeos_kernel, for use with ChromeOS + machines. This is a GPT-only flag and sets the type GUID to + FE3A2A5D-4F32-41A7-B725-ACCC3285A309. + + Add a new partition flag for Linux Boot Loader Specification /boot + partitions. The bls_boot flag will set the msdos partition type to 0xea + and the GPT partition type GUID to bc13c2ff-59e6-4262-a352-b275fd6f7172. + +* Noteworthy changes in release 3.3 (2019-10-10) [stable] + +** Bug Fixes + + s390: Re-enabled virtio-attached DASD heuristics by using + HDIO_GETGEO when probing device geometry. Fixes a bug with + KVM virtio-blk backed by a DASD. + +* Noteworthy changes in release 3.2.153 (2019-08-12) [alpha] + + Parted now recognizes NVMe devices, NVDIMM, and RAM drives. + +** Bug Fixes + + Fix atari disklabel false positives by probing other labels first. + + Fix resizepart to adjust the end to be -1 sector when using iec + power of 2 units so that the next partition can start immediately + following the new end, just like mkpart does. + + Fix set and disk_set to not crash when there are no flags to set. + + Fix a udev cookie leak when using resizepart on device-mapper devices. + + Fix a gettext crash/error sometimes when using localized languages. + + Fix fat resize to preverve boot code, and thus not render the + filesystem unreconized by Windows. + + Fix rescue command: the rescue command often failed to find + filesystems due to leaving on cylinder alignment. + + libparted-fs-resize: Prevent crash resizing FAT file systems with very + deep directories with path names over 512 bytes long. + + Use 512b sector size when communicating with device-mapper. Fixes + problems with partitions being created too small on dm devices + with sector sizes > 5121b + + Don't crash in the disk_set command when a disk label is not found + + libparted-fs-resize: Prevent crash resizing FAT16 file systems. + + libparted-fs-resize: Prevent crash resizing FAT16 file systems. + + If the user specifies start/end of the partition as cylinders + and a cylinder has a size which is power of 2, then such address + does not trigger exact placement. + + mkpart: Allow negative start value when FS-TYPE is not given + +* Noteworthy changes in release 3.2 (2014-07-28) [stable] + +** New Features + + Add support for MBR id, GPT GUID and detection of UDF filesystem. + + libparted-fs-resize: Work on non 512 byte sectors. + + Add resizepart command to resize a partition. This works even on + mounted partitions. + + Add support for EAV DASD partitions, which are ECKD's with more than + 65520 cylinders. + + Add support for implicit FBA DASD partitions with a single immutable + partition. + + Added support for recognizing btrfs filesystem. This simply displays + btrfs in the 'file system' column of the parted output. + + Added new partition type flag, esp, to set the type to 0xEF on MS-DOS. + Also aliased to boot on GPT to set the UEFI ESP GUID. + + Added new partition type flag, irst, for use with Intel Rapid Start + Technology. On MS-DOS disk labels it sets the type to 0x84 and on GPT + it sets the GUID to D3BFE2DE-3DAF-11DF-BA-40-E3A556D89593. + + You can now choose to ignore errors about partitions that overlap, + or are longer than the disk. This allows you to use parted to + repair the problem. + + Add support for prep flag to GPT to select PowerPC Reference Platform + boot partition type. + +** Bug Fixes + + libparted: fix mac partition tables on > 512 byte sector sizes + + libparted: ped_partition_get_path() was returning "/dev/foo1" instead + of "/dev/foo" for loop labels. + + partprobe: when called on a disk that has become a loop label, + remove any partitions left over from a previous label. + + libparted: The loop label represents an unpartitioned disk, but creates + a dummy partition to represent the whole disk. This dummy partition + was actually being loaded into the kernel. Don't do that. + + libparted: fix loop labels to not vanish if you don't create + a filesystem, and to not return an error syncing when you do. + + libparted: remove all old partitions, even if new label does not allow + as many. + + libparted: fat and ntfs boot sectors were misdetected as dos + partition tables instead of being treated as a loop label. + + libparted: previously if you chose to ignore the warning about + the gpt thinking the disk was smaller than it appears to be on + disk, subsequent warnings on other disks would be suppressed. + Now parted will warn once per disk. + + Fix filesystem detection on non 512 byte sector sizes + + Fix linux partition sync code to flush partitions > 16 + + Do not reject a FAT boot sector as invalid because it has no + system ID string. + + libparted: /dev/md/ symlink can change after libparted dereferences it, + instead it should just use the symlink as given by the caller in the + same way we do with /dev/mapper/. + + libparted: On multipath systems new partitions would sometimes not + appear, reporting 'device-mapper: create ioctl failed: Device or + resource busy' until the system was rebooted. Added dm_udev_wait + calls to synchronize parted with udev. + + Fix help text for disk_{set,toggle} to show *disk* flags instead + of partition flags. + + Fix gpt to correctly handle non ASCII charcters in partition names + + If a drive was 100 times an even multiple of two, sizes specified as + a percentage would trigger the exact placement rule and refuse to round + to the nearest half percent. + + Avoid generating udev add/remove events for all unmodified partitions + when writing a new table. + + Fix cache coherency issue by flushing partition block devices. + This had been mistakenly disabled in parted 2.0, and resulted + in parted sometimes identifying the previous filesystem type + after running an mkfs to format a partition to a new type. + + libparted: fix gpt end of disk handling. Previously if the backup + copy of the gpt was not at the end of the disk and you chose to + ignore this error, parted would move it to the end of the disk + anyhow. It will now leave the backup in the same location if + you chose to ignore this error. + + libparted: handle logical partitions starting immediately after + the EBR. Creating a logical partition one sector after the EBR + used to cause parted to complain that it could not inform the + kernel of the changes, but after a reboot, everything was fine. + Parted will now correctly inform the kernel of the changes, but + only set the length of the extended partition to 1 sector instead + of two, which would cause it to overlap the logical partition. + + parted: fix EOF and ctrl-c handling. parted used to refuse to exit + in response to ctrl-c and would get stuck in an infinite loop + prompting for more input when it reached EOF on stdin. + + libparted: Don't fail to manipulate partitions on dmraid disks that + have other partitions in use. + + libparted: mac: a MAC partition table could have a block_size larger + than the one the kernel told us about. Upon reading that partition + table, libparted would ask if it's ok to use the larger block size. + If you were to respond in the affirmative, libparted would read the + larger number of bytes into a buffer of the shorter length, + overrunning it. + + libparted: gpt: fix gpt_get_max_supported_partition_count to work + also on little-endian systems. + + libparted: treat a disk with no pMBR as an msdos-labeled disk + even when it has valid GPT headers. + + partprobe now tells the kernel to forget about any partitions + on a device that has no recognizable partition table. + + dos: the range of random MBR signature values was artificially limited + to 0..999999, which mistakenly included 0. Now, we use the full 32-bit + range, but exclude 0. + +** Changes in behavior + + When attempting to manipulate a mounted partition, parted now issues + a warning that you can choose to ignore, instead of an error. + + When creating a loop label, it automatically comes with a partition + using the whole disk. + + parted -l no longer lists device-mapper devices other than + dmraid whole disks. + + Added new Linux-specific partition GUID type code + (0FC63DAF-8483-4772-8E79-3D69D8477DE4) for Linux filesystem data on GPT + disks. This type code is now assigned as the default partition type code + for new partitions holding Linux filesystems. + + Added new "msftdata" flag to identify partitions holding NTFS or FAT + filesystems on GPT disks. This flag corresponds to a GPT type code of + EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7 ("Microsoft Basic Data"). Since + Linux filesystem partitions formerly used this type code, this flag may + optionally be set on Linux partitions to make the partition table type + codes match former configurations in case the new Linux filesystem type + code causes problems with some utility. Note that this flag cannot be + removed from NTFS or FAT partitions within parted except by setting a + competing flag, such as "boot" (which sets the type code used by EFI + System partitions) or "msftres" (which sets the "Microsoft Reserved" type + code). + + +* 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-list@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. + + +* Noteworthy changes in release 3.0 (2011-05-30) [stable] + +** Bug fixes + + Fix numerous small leaks in both the library and the UI. + +** Changes in behavior + + Remove all FS-related (file system-related) sub-commands; these commands + are no longer recognized because they were all dependent on parted "knowing" + too much about file system: mkpartfs, mkfs, cp, move, check, resize. + This change removes not just the user interface bits, but also the + library functions and nearly all of the underlying FS-munging code. + The code embedded in Parted by which it knew about those file systems + was so old, unmaintainable and buggy that while seemingly drastic, + this change is like removing a gangrenous toe. + + Here is the list of removed functions: + + ped_file_system_clobber + ped_file_system_open + ped_file_system_create + ped_file_system_close + ped_file_system_check + ped_file_system_copy + ped_file_system_resize + ped_file_system_get_create_constraint + ped_file_system_get_resize_constraint + ped_file_system_get_copy_constraint + + This change also removes the corresponding function members + from "struct _PedFileSystemOps": + + clobber open create close check copy resize get_create_constraint + get_resize_constraint get_copy_constraint + + +* Noteworthy changes in release 2.4 (2011-05-18) [stable] + +** Bug fixes + + parted no longer allows the modification of certain in-use partitions. + In particular, before this fix, parted would permit removal or modification + of any in-use partition on a dmraid and any in-use partition beyond the 15th + on a regular scsi disk. + + Improve support of DASD devices on the s390 architecture. + Parted now supports all DASD types (CKD and FBA), DASD formats (CDL, + LDL, CMS non-reserved, and CMS reserved), and DASD drivers (ECKD, FBA, + and DIAG) in all combinations supported by the Linux kernel. As before, + only CDL format on CKD DASD using the ECKD driver is supported for + read-write operations (create, delete, move, re-size, etc.). However, + the implicit partition present on LDL- and CMS-formatted disks is now + correctly recognized for read-only operations. In detail: + + - parted now correctly handles LDL-format disks with a block + size other than 4096 (bug fix) + + - parted now recognizes the CMS disk format, both reserved + and non-reserved (enhancement) + + - parted now supports FBA DASD devices (enhancement) + + - parted now supports the DIAG driver when running in a + virtual machine under z/VM (enhancement) + + libparted: raise the limit on the maximum start sector and the + maximum number of sectors in a "loop" partition table from 2^32 to 2^64. + [bug introduced in parted-2.1] + + libparted once again recognizes a whole-disk FAT partition + [bug introduced in parted-1.9.0] + + libparted now recognizes scsi disks with a high major (128-135) as scsi + disks + + an msdos partition table on a very small device (smaller than one cylinder) + is now recognized. [bug introduced in parted-2.2] + + libparted: zero-length devices (other than files) are ignored rather than + throwing an exception. + + libparted: gpt label creation can no longer divide by zero with a + defective device or when a concurrent writer modifies the PE-size + bytes in the small interval between the write and subsequent read + of the primary GPT header. + +** Changes in behavior + + "parted $dev print" now prints information about the device (model, size, + transport, sector size) even when it fails to recognize the disk label. + + specifying partition start or end values using MiB, GiB, etc. suffixes + now makes parted do what I want, i.e., use that precise value, and not + some other that is up to 500KiB or 500MiB away from what I specified. + Before, to get that behavior, you would have had to use carefully chosen + values with units of bytes ("B") or sectors ("s") to obtain the same + result, and with sectors, your usage would not be portable between devices + with varying sector sizes. This change does not affect how parted handles + suffixes like KB, MB, GB, etc. + + +* Noteworthy changes in release 2.3 (2010-05-28) [stable] + +** New features + + parted now recognizes ATA over Ethernet (AoE) devices + + parted now recognizes Linux Software RAID Arrays + + libparted has a new partition flag to check for diagnostic (aka recovery + or reserved) partitions: PED_PARTITION_DIAG + +** Bug fixes + + When libparted deferenced a /dev/mapper/foo symlink, it would keep the + resulting /dev/dm-N name and sometimes use it later, even though it + had since become stale and invalid. It no longer stores the result + of dereferencing a /dev/mapper symlink. + + libparted's msdos_partition_is_flag_available function now always reports + that the "hidden" flag is not available for an extended partition. + Similarly, msdos_partition_get_flag(p,PED_PARTITION_HIDDEN) always returns 0 + for an extended partition. + + libparted uses a more accurate heuristic to distinguish between + ext4 and ext3 partitions. + + libparted now properly checks the return value of dm_task_run when + operating on devicemapper devices. + + allow using ped_device_cache_remove(dev) followed by a (later) + ped_device_destroy() without corrupting the device cache. + + when creating an ext2 file system[*], Parted no longer creates an + invalid one when its size is 2TiB or larger. + [*] Remember, now all FS-creation operations are deprecated in Parted. + This is not an indicator that we'll be supporting this code. + On the contrary, it is slated to be removed. + +** Changes in behavior + + libparted no longer issues an exception/warning about >512-byte + sector support being "HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL". It seems to have matured + enough to be usable at least with GPT and MSDOS partition tables. + + +* Noteworthy changes in release 2.2 (2010-02-26) [stable] + +** Changes in behavior + + The default alignment (--align option) for newly created partitions has + been changed to optimal. + +** New features + + The ped_device_get_*_alignment() functions now return a sane default + value instead of NULL when the so called topology information is incomplete. + The default minimum alignment aligns to physical sector size, the default + optimal alignment is 1MiB, which is what vista and windows 7 do. + +** Bug fixes + + Parted no longer uses a physical sector size of 0 or of any other + value smaller than the logical sector size. + + dos: creating an HFS or HFS+ partition in an msdos partition table + used to set the partition type to 0x83. That is wrong. The required + number is 0xaf, and that is what is used now. + + gpt: read-only operation could clobber MBR part of hybrid GPT+MBR table + [bug introduced in parted-2.1] + + gpt: a read-only operation like "parted $dev print" would overwrite $dev's + protective MBR when exactly one of the primary and backup GPT tables was + found to be corrupt. + [bug introduced prior to parted-1.8.0] + + sun: the version, sanity and nparts VTOC fields were ignored by libparted. + Those fields are properly initialized now. The nparts (number of partitions) + field is initialized to 8 (max. number of sun partitions) rather that to a + real number of partitions. This solution is compatible with Linux kernel + and Linux fdisk. + + "make install" no longer installs tests programs named disk and label + + libparted: try harder to inform kernel of partition changes. + Previously when editing partitions, occasionally the kernel would + fail to be informed of partition changes. When this happened future + problems would occur because the kernel had incorrect information. + For example, if this problem arose when resizing or creating a + new partition, then an incorrect partition size might be displayed + or a user might encounter a failure to format or delete a newly + created partition, respectively. + + libparted: committing a disk that was returned by ped_disk_duplicate + would always result in ped_disk_clobber being called (and thus the first + and last 9KiB of the disk being zeroed), even if the duplicated disk, + was not returned by ped_disk_fresh(). + + +* Noteworthy changes in release 2.1 (2009-12-20) [stable] + +** New features + + new --align=<align> commandline option which can have the following values: + none: Use the minimum alignment allowed by the disk type + cylinder: Align partitions to cylinders (the default) + minimal: Use minimum alignment as given by the disk topology information + optimal: Use optimum alignment as given by the disk topology information + The minimal and optimal values will use layout information provided by the + disk to align the logical partition table addresses to actual physical + blocks on the disks. The mininal value uses the minimum aligment needed to + align the partition properly to physical blocks, which avoids performance + degradation. Where as the optimal value uses a multiple of the physical + block size in a way that guarantees optimal performance. + The min and opt values will only work when compiled with + libblkid >= 2.17 and running on a kernel >= 2.6.31, otherwise they will + behave as the none --align value. + + libparted: new functions to set per disk (instead of per partition) flags: + ped_disk_set_flag() + ped_disk_get_flag() + ped_disk_is_flag_available() + ped_disk_flag_get_name() + ped_disk_flag_get_by_name() + ped_disk_flag_next() + + libparted: new per disk flag: PED_DISK_CYLINDER_ALIGNMENT. This flag + (which defaults to true) controls if disk types for which cylinder alignment + is optional do cylinder alignment when a new partition gets added. + + libparted: new functions to return per-partition-table-type limits: + - ped_disk_max_partition_start_sector: Return the largest representable + start sector number for a given "disk". + - ped_disk_max_partition_length: Return the maximum partition length + for a given "disk". + + new command "align-check TYPE N" to determine whether the starting sector + of partition N is TYPE(minimal|optimal)-aligned for the disk. E.g., + parted -s /dev/sda align-check min 1 && echo partition 1 is min-aligned + parted -s /dev/sda align-check opt 2 && echo partition 2 is opt-aligned + The same libblkid and kernel version requirements apply as for --align + + Add functions to libparted to get minimal and optimal alignment + information from devices: + ped_device_get_minimal_aligned_constraint() + ped_device_get_optimal_aligned_constraint() + ped_device_get_minimum_alignment() + ped_device_get_optimum_alignment() + The same libblkid and kernel version requirements apply as for --align + + Add ped_disk_get_partition_alignment() function to libparted to get + information about alignment enforced by the disk type. + +** Bug fixes + + parted can once again create partition tables on loop devices. + Before, "parted -s /dev/loop0 mklabel gpt" would fail. + [bug introduced in parted-1.9.0] + + improved >512-byte sector support: for example, printing a table on a + 4k-sector disk would show "Sector size (logical/physical): 4096B/512B", + when the sizes should have been "4096B/4096B". + + gpt tables are more rigorously checked; before, partition entry array CRCs + were not checked, and we would mistakenly use the AlternateLBA member of a + known-corrupt primary table. + + improved dasd disk support, in previous versions calling + ped_disk_new_fresh() or ped_disk_duplicate() on a dasd type PedDisk + would fail. This is fixed now. + + handle device nodes created by lvm build with udev synchronisation enabled + properly. + + when printing tables, parted no longer truncates flag names + + +* Noteworthy changes in release 2.0 (2009-10-06) [beta] + +** Improvements + + Parted now supports disks with sector size larger than 512 bytes. + Before this release, Parted could operate only on disks with a sector + size of 512 bytes. However, disk manufacturers are already making disks + with an exposed hardware sector size of 4096 bytes. Prior versions of + Parted cannot even read a partition table on such a device, not to + mention create or manipulate existing partition tables. + Due to internal design and time constraints, the following + less-common partition table types are currently disabled: + amiga, bsd, aix, pc98 + "bsd" and "amiga" are mostly done, but had a few minor problems, + so may remain disabled until someone requests that they be revived. + +** Bug fixes + + big-endian systems can once again read GPT partition tables + [bug introduced in parted-1.9.0] + + ped_partition_is_busy no longer calls libparted's exception handler, + since doing so caused trouble with anaconda/pyparted when operating on + dmraid devices. + + Partitions in a GPT table are no longer assigned the "microsoft + reserved partition" type. Before this change, each partition would + be listed with a type of "msftres" by default. + + +* Noteworthy changes in release 1.9.0 (2009-07-23) [stable] + +** Bug fixes + + parted now preserves the protective MBR (PMBR) in GPT type labels. + http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2008-December/\ + 002473.html + http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2008-12/msg00015.html + + gpt_read now uses SizeOfPartitionEntry instead of the size of + GuidPartitionEntry_t. This ensures that *all* of the partition + entries are correctly read. + http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2008-December/\ + 002465.html + http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/attachments/\ + 20081202/b7c0528d/attachment.txt + + mklabel (interactive mode) now correctly asks for confirmation, when + replacing an existent label, without outputting an error message. + http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2009-January/\ + 002739.html + + resize now handles FAT16 file systems with a 64k cluster. This + configuration is not common, but it is possible. + http://parted.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/ticket/207 + + parted now ignores devices of the type /dev/md* when probing. These + types of devices should be handled by the device-mapper capabilities + of parted. + http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2009-April/\ + 002781.html + + The parted documentation now describes the differences in the options + passed to mkpart for the label types. + http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2009-April/\ + 002782.html + +** Changes in behavior + + include/parted/beos.h, include/parted/gnu.h and include/parted/linux.h + have been removed. The symbols contained in these files (GNUSpecific, + ped_device_new_from_store, BEOSSpecific, LinuxSpecific, LINUX_SPECIFIC) + were moved to the individual files that need them. + + In libparted, the linux-swap "filesystem" types are now called + "linux-swap(v0)" and "linux-swap(v1)" rather than "linux-swap(old)" + and "linux-swap(new)" as in parted 1.8, or "linux-swap" as in older + versions; "old" and "new" generally make poor names, and v1 is the + only format supported by current Linux kernels. Aliases for all + previous names are available. + +* Noteworthy changes in release 1.8.8.1 (2007-12-17) [stable] + +** FIXME: fill in details + +* Noteworthy changes in release 1.8.8 (2007-08-09) [stable] + +** GNU parted is now licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3 + or higher. See the COPYING file for more details. + +** libparted: + - Add compute_block_counts() to improve ext2fs support. + - Properly detect 'ext2 fs too small' cases. + - Move formatting commands out of translatable strings. + - Read an msdos partition table from a device with 2K sectors. + - Remove always-false "Unable to open" diagnostic in ped_disk_new(), + leave the "unrecognized disk label" diagnostic. + - Don't leak partition table buffer in amiga_read(). + - Don't read/write initialized memory with DEBUG turned on off for + 'mklabel bsd' and 'mklabel amiga' command calls. + - Turn off DEBUG in libparted.c to avoid initializing all allocated + memory to '1' bits. + - Correct handling of HeaderSize field in GPT labels. + - Fix block number used when checking for ext2 fs state. + - Add detection support for Xen virtual block devices (/dev/xvd*). + - When reading DASD labels, check the filesystem type as well as + partition flags to determine what's on the partition. + - Add _dm_probe_all() from Debian to probe for all device-mapper + devices. + +** parted: + - Fixed exception handling in mkpart and mkpartfs commands. + - Add the --dry-run option to the partprobe command. + - Update docs: cannot specify 'primary' for a partition on a loop + device. + - Remove unused functions (get_spaces). + - Fix off-by-one error in str_list_print_wrap(). + - Use xmalloc() and xrealloc() to check return values. + - Fix invalid command line argument handling. + - Close memory leaks in parted.c and table.c. + - Fix warnings when compiling with translation support enabled. + - Use a consistent prompt when asking for a file system type. + - Update docs: don't reference old versions of gzip. + +** misc: + - Improve the testing framework in the tests/ subdirectory. Build out + more of the testing scripts so we can start using that to ensure we + don't introduce regressions in releases. + - Support testing with tmpfs filesystems on Linux. + - Work around inadequate libreadline in the configure script. + - Don't include config.h from internal headers. + +* Noteworthy changes in release 1.8.7 (2007-05-09) [stable] + +** libparted: + - Prevent compilation of DASD code on GNU Hurd systems. + - Integrate new unit testing framework for parted and libparted. + - Fix primary partition cylinder alignment error for DOS disk labels. + - Use PED_PARTITION_NORMAL in place of PED_PARTITION_PRIMARY. + - Avoid segfault due to a double free on reiserfs support. + +** parted: + - Fix script mode (-s) for mkfs command in parted. + - Suppress "you are not superuser..." warning in script mode. + - Fix off-by-one bug in parted when displaying information about the + disk. + - Do not translate partition names in the 'parted print' command. + This causes problems for non-Latin-based character sets. + - Send errors to stderr rather than stdout. + - Handle command line options independent of the order. + - Abort on any invalid option and handle -v and -h first. + - Only display the update /etc/fstab message when there has been a + change to the disk (a shorter and more direct message too). + +* Noteworthy changes in release 1.8.6 (2007-03-20) [stable] + +** Revert the implementation of the linux-swap(new) and linux-swap(old) types. + The type is 'linux-swap' for v1, v2, and s1suspend swap partitions on Linux. + +* Noteworthy changes in release 1.8.5 (2007-03-20) [stable] + +** Another minor update. Both versions 1.8.3 and 1.8.4 lacked po translation + files. These are included with version 1.8.5. + +* Noteworthy changes in release 1.8.4 (2007-03-19) [stable] + +** Minor bug fix release for 1.8.3 to fix build issues on various + platforms: + - Use 'uname -m' to determine if we build on System Z or not. + - Include <parted/vtoc.h> in <parted/fdasd.h> for format1_label_t + definition. + - Remove unused variables in libparted/arch/linux.c (-Werror). + - Check return values on fgets() and asprint() in libparted/arch/linux.c + (-Werror). + - Check for tgetent() in libtinfo in the configure script. + - Move some macro definitions in <parted/disk.h> to fix a compile + problem with gcc-4.1.2 as indicated here: + http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2007-03/msg00008.html + +* Noteworthy changes in release 1.8.3 (2007-03-16) [stable] + +** libparted: + - Header file clean ups. + - Sync the linux-swap header according to the Linux kernel sources. + - Enable support for swsusp partitions and the ability to differentiate + between old and new versions of linux-swap partitions. + - Renaming PARTITION_EXT to PARTITION_DOS_EXT in the DOS disklabel + code (consitency with Linux kernel source). + - Added libparted.pc pkg-config file. + - Remove unused functions, ifdefs, and other code. + - Deprecate ped_[register|unregister]_disk_type in favor of + ped_disk_type_[register|unregister]. + - Small test program fixes (in label.c and common.c). + - Make functions const-correct. + - Handle systems where libreadline is not available. + - Preserve starting sector for primary NTFS 3.1 partitions on DOS + disklabel. + - Handle 2048-byte logical sectors in linux_read(). + - Use PED_SECTOR_SIZE_DEFAULT macro in place of 512. + - Don't assume logical sector size is <= 512B on AIX. + - Detect HFS write failure. + - Use mkstemp() in place of mktemp(). + - Added HFS+ resize support. + - Don't build DASD support on non-zSeries hardware. + +** parted/partprobe: + - Use fputs() and putchar() in place for printf(), when possible. + - Detect/report stdout write errors. + - Accept the --version and --help options. + - Fix memory leaks in parted(8). + +** general: + - Synchronize the manual page and --help documentation. + - GNU autoconf and automake updates. + - 'gcc -Wall -Wshadow' warning cleanups. + - Don't define _GNU_SOURCE manually. + - Documentation updates and cleanups (AUTHORS, copyright notices, + etc). + - Use gnulib (http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/). + +* Noteworthy changes in release 1.8.2 (2007-01-12) [stable] + +** libparted: + - Add the ped_device_cache_remove() function to remove a device from + the cache. This is necessary for some things that use libparted, + including pyparted. + - Fix a segfault in ped_assert() where the wrong pointer is freed in + the backtrace handler. + - Only call _disk_warn_loss(disk) in do_mklabel() if disk is not NULL. + Fixes a segfault when initializing new volumes. + - Dynamically allocate space for exception messages. + - Output a backtrace when catching SEGV_MAPPER or a general SIGSEGV. + +** parted: + - Destroy all objects before return when called with --list or --all + option. + - Zero sized device is shown as 0.00B and not -0.00kB. + - Implement 'print devices' command. + - Alias 'print list' to 'print all'. + - Alias 'mktable' to 'mklabel'. + +** misc: + - Other bug fixes, documentation updates, and translation improvements. + - Code and API clean-ups. + +* Noteworthy changes in release 1.8.1 (2006-12-04) [stable] + +** libparted: + - Rework backtrace support. + - Code cleanups. + - Added --enable-selinux configure option to enable linking libparted with + libselinux and libsepol. + - Disable ext2fs resize for now, tell user to use resize2fs. + +** parted: + - Fix loop in print_all(). + - Introduce the -list command-line switch. + - Make mktable aliased to mklabel. + - Warn before mklabel and mkfs. + - Code cleanups in _partition_warn_busy(), _disk_warn_busy(), + _partition_warn_loss(), and _disk_warn_loss(). + - Avoid warning about user permissions when using --version. + - Fix 'print' command help. + - Proper print when there are no extended partitions, but partition names. + +** misc: + - Generate SHA-1 digest of the archive files and upload those along with the + actual archive files. + - Update translation files. + - Remove automatically generated files from version control. + +* Noteworthy changes in release 1.8.0 (2006-11-17) [stable] + +** libparted: + - GPT fixes: + - Correctly handle disks with non-512 byte sector sizes + - Support LUN resizing (see new space, allow parted to use it) + - Prevent overlap of LastUsableLBA and PartitionEntryLBA in backup GPT + - Prevent SIGFPE when FAT sector size is 0 + - Add ped_exception_get_handler() + - DASD support for IBM zSeries systems + - AIX disk label support + - Detect Promise SX8 storage devices + - Macintosh (ppc and x86) disk label improvements: + - Prevent LVM and RAID partition types from corrupting the table + - Fix removal of driver partition + - Add support binary units (MiB, KiB, GiB) + - In ped_register_disk_type(), handle disk_types==NULL case + - In ped_unregister_disk_type(), handle case where type is not registered + - Fix geometry read problems on 64-bit Macs (and probably other 64-bit systems) + - Add support for /dev/mapper devices via libdevmapper library + - Detect Apple_Boot partition types correctly on MacOS X 10.4 systems + +** parted: + - Various bug fixes, signal handling fixes, and spelling error fixes + - UI improvements to display more information about the disk and transport + layer + +======================================================================== + +Copyright (C) 2001-2014, 2019-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + +Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document +under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no +Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover +Texts. 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