8.167. parted

Bug Fixes

BZ#1018075

Previously, parted wrongly assumed that a minor number of a device was always equal to its major number plus its partition number. However, this is not true with some devices, such as DM multipath devices. As a consequence, operations with parted on DM multipath devices were failing. With this update, parted verifies the mount status of a device by the path to the device instead of using the "minor:major" number.

BZ#929319

The parted program printed an unnecessary warning when used with disks that had the sector size of 4 KB. With this update, this confusing warning has been removed from parted.

BZ#975478

Previously, the align-check directive did not work correctly when used from parted in interactive mode. Users had to use parted in script mode in order to be able to utilize the align-check directive. This update corrects the relevant code, and align-check now works in interactive mode as expected.

BZ#1074069

The parted program could fail with an EBUSY error if it was rapidly called in a loop. To resolve this problem, this update modifies parted to keep retrying for up to 1 second when receiving an EBUSY error.

BZ#1139435

To prevent failures on systems that do not support partitioned loop devices, such as IBM S/390 systems, the t8000-loop.sh test has been modified to being no longer run on these systems.

Enhancement

BZ#1054283

This update adds support for GUID Partition Table (GPT) disk labels on PreP partitions on the 64-bit PowerPC architectures.