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| author | David Cantrell <dcantrell@redhat.com> | 2006-09-15 15:25:41 +0000 |
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| committer | David Cantrell <dcantrell@redhat.com> | 2006-09-15 15:25:41 +0000 |
| commit | 48ea38118fc9c601eca616680a65327cb4dcdcfe (patch) | |
| tree | d6642d1c8dd94f53028f9d91a07539cb42ba1404 /NEWS | |
| parent | 26cfacb70d75923b23a0e07f1a01ed7ed88622c6 (diff) | |
| download | parted-48ea38118fc9c601eca616680a65327cb4dcdcfe.tar.gz | |
Updated for version 1.8.0rc1.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/parted/upstream/trunk@822 2d424fd7-7fe2-0310-af74-8bc65edeb173
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 43 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 28 deletions
@@ -1,32 +1,19 @@ -1.7.0 +1.8.0 ===== libparted: -* support for Apple GUIDs to GPT code -* BeOS/ZETA/Haiku support -* probe /dev/hd? before /dev/sd? -* prefer /sys/block to /proc/partitions where possible -* fix of ext2 "strange layout" bug (EXPERIMENTAL) -* Linux: detection of sector sizes not equal to 512 -* GPT handles sector sizes not equal to 512 correctly now (EXPERIMENTAL) -* ext2 handles sector sizes not equal to 512 correctly now (EXPERIMENTAL) -* added ped_device_get_constraint to support device-dependent constraints -* API documentation moved to Doxygen +* 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) parted: -* new formatter for "print" command -* removed copyright preamble and introduced "version" command -* SIGSEGV handler -* fixed "rescue" command core dump -* 'mkpart' and 'mkpartfs' align partitions to physical block size boundaries - now -* 'mkpart' and 'mkpartfs' let the user set a partition name where supported now -* 'print' accepts 'free' argument to display free space information -* 'print' accepts 'all' argument to display information about all - detected devices -* position and size of partitions are displayed with up to two - digits after the decimal dot (depending on the unit and value) - -manual: -* cut down substantially. Lots of general content will be moved to the GNU - Storage Guide. - +* Various bug fixes, signal handling fixes, and spelling error fixes |