The parted-3.1 release brings back FAT16/FAT32 and HFS/HFS+ file
system resize capabilities in a new libparted fs resize library.
The following operations are again available when GParted is linked
with parted-3.1:
FAT16 - grow and shrink
FAT32 - grow and shrink
HFS - shrink
HFS+ - shrink
Note that there is a difference in how move actions are handled for
FAT16/FAT32 file systems based on parted version.
When GParted is linked with parted >= 3.0:
FAT16 - move performed internally by GParted
FAT32 - move performed internally by GParted
When GParted is linked with parted < 3.0:
FAT16 - move performed by libparted
FAT32 - move performed by libparted
Thanks goes to Jim Meyering for restoring these file system resizing
capabilities in Parted 3.1 with a new libparted fs resize library.
Closes Bug #668281 - minimal file-system resize API? (FAT and HFS*
only)
The new configure option --enable-libparted-dmraid enables the native
use of /dev/mapper dmraid support in the libparted library.
If this option is not specified, or is disabled, then gparted code
will be used to support dmraid. The gparted code uses the old dmraid
partition naming scheme of always appending the partition number to
the device name. The letter 'p' is not inserted between the device
name and the partition number. The gparted code is particularly
useful when used with older versions of libparted that do not support
/dev/mapper dmraid.
Ubuntu launchpad bug 719129 - [Natty] Gparted duplicates dmraid
partition devices
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gparted/+bug/719129
A patch to alleviate the "failure to inform kernel of partition
changes problem" (bug #604298) has been included in parted-2.2.
Hence when parted-2.2 or higher is used, the work around code in
GParted is not required.
Building GParted with gtkmm-2.4 version 2.14.0 would fail with:
error: ‘gtk_show_uri’ was not declared in this scope.
This problem does not occur with version 2.16.0.
Curtis Gedak