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author | srs5694 <srs5694@users.sourceforge.net> | 2009-08-29 15:00:31 -0400 |
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committer | srs5694 <srs5694@users.sourceforge.net> | 2009-08-29 15:00:31 -0400 |
commit | 221e08768de7fe42ba533ca22baf671420569c07 (patch) | |
tree | 64f0b26992dc4f1100ab57f5bc32351272e3c9d2 /README | |
parent | a0eb11a64b4a5b78caff58f804a5fb78ddf3a5df (diff) | |
download | sgdisk-221e08768de7fe42ba533ca22baf671420569c07.tar.gz |
New release: 0.4.0
This version adds support for FreeBSD and big-endian systems. It also
adds support for BSD disklabels and an assortment of other changes,
improvements, and bug fixes.
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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ include: * The ability to convert MBR-partitioned disks in-place to GPT format, without losing data +* The ability to convert BSD disklabels in-place to create GPT + partitions, without losing data + * The ability to specify sector-exact partition sizes * More flexible specification of filesystem type code GUIDs, which @@ -27,6 +30,9 @@ include: * The MBR boot loader code is left alone (GNU Parted tends to wipe it out with every change) +* The ability to create a hybrid MBR, which permits GPT-unaware + OSes to access up to three GPT partitions on the disk + Of course, gdisk isn't without its limitations. Most notably, it lacks the filesystem awareness and filesystem-related features of GNU Parted. You can't resize a partition's filesystem or create a partition with a @@ -60,10 +66,10 @@ with >2TiB drives, though. My main development platform is a system running the 64-bit version of Ubuntu 8.04. I've also tested on 64-bit OpenSuSE, 32-bit Fedora 10, 32-bit -Ubuntu 6.10, 64-bit Gentoo, 32-bit PowerPC Linux, and 32-bit Intel-based -Mac OS X. Problems relating to 64-bit integers on the 32-bit Linux have -been common during development and may crop up in the future. The Mac OS -X and big-endian (PowerPC) support is new. +Ubuntu 6.10, 64-bit Gentoo, 32-bit PowerPC Linux, 32-bit Intel-based Mac +OS X, and 64-bit Fedora 7.1. Problems relating to 64-bit integers on the +32-bit Linux have been common during development and may crop up in the +future. The Mac OS X, FreeBSD, and big-endian (PowerPC) support are new. Redistribution -------------- |