The oldest supported distributions have these versions of ntfs-3g /
ntfsprogs.
Distro EOL ntfs-3g / ntfsprogs
- Debian 8 2020-Jun 2014.2.16AR.2
- RHEL / CentOS 7 2024-Jun 2017.3.23
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 2019-Apr 2013.1.13AR.1
The oldest version of ntfs-3g / ntfsprogs on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS includes
support for the --new-serial option.
$ ntfslabel -V
ntfslabel v2013.1.13AR.1 (libntfs-3g) - Display, or set, the label for an NTFS Volume.
$ ntfslabel --help | grep -- --new-serial
--new-serial Set a new serial number
Therefore it is no longer necessary to check for this option as it is
always available. The worst case scenario is that some how an old
version of ntfslabel is used which doesn't support this option. In such
a case GParted goes from not supporting changing the UUID to claiming
support, but presumably it would fail with an error reporting unknown
option when applied. Arguably better from an end user support point of
view.
A user reported GParted was slow to refresh and timing ntfsresize to
query his file systems found that it was taking 4.7 seconds and 9.2
seconds for sizes 31.7 GiB and 49 GiB NTFS file systems respectively.
Almost 14 seconds just to read the usage.
Created a 4 GiB NTFS and filled it with as many 4 KiB files as possible,
just over 800,000 files.
# df -k /mnt/2
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb2 4194300 4193860 440 100% /mnt/2
# df -i /mnt/2
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/sdb2 819640 808591 11049 99% /mnt/2
Testing perform of ntfsresize:
# time ntfsresize --info --force --no-progress-bar /dev/sdb2 | \
> egrep 'Current volume size|resize at|Cluster size'
Cluster size : 4096 bytes
Current volume size: 4294963712 bytes (4295 MB)
You might resize at 4294516736 bytes (freeing 450560 bytes).
real 0m5.231s
user 0m2.072s
sys 0m3.014s
Computation of figures:
Clusters per volume = 4294963712 / 4096 = 1048575.125
Free clusters = (4294963712 - 4294516736) / 4096 = 109.125
Testing performance of ntfscluster, as used before this commit [1] from
GParted 0.3 in 2006:
# time ntfscluster --force /dev/sdb2 | \
> egrep 'bytes per cluster|bytes per volume|clusters per volume|clusters of free space'
...
bytes per cluster : 4096
bytes per volume : 4294963200
clusters per volume : 131071
clusters of free space : 110
real 0m4.243s
user 0m1.629s
sys 0m2.587s
Note that the clusters per volume figure reported by ntfscluster is
wrong. 4294963200 / 4096 = 1048575, not 131071.
Testing performance using ntfsinfo:
# time ntfsinfo --mft /dev/sdb2 | \
egrep 'Cluster Size|Volume Size in Clusters|Free Clusters'
Cluster Size: 4096
Volume Size in Clusters: 1048575
Free Clusters: 110 (0.0%)
real 0m0.022s
user 0m0.012s
sys 0m0.018s
Repeating the above tests while also using 'btrace /dev/sdb2' and Ctrl-C
around each test via a separate terminal, reports these numbers of I/Os
being performed:
Command Read requests Read bytes
- ntfsresize 2,695 1116 MiB
- ntfscluster 2,685 1116 MiB
- ntfsinfo 13 2208 KiB
No wonder that ntfsresize and ntfscluster take a long time, they read
just over 1 GiB of data from the 4 GiB file system, where as ntfsinfo
only reads just over 2 MiB.
Switch to using ntfsinfo to report file system usage.
[1] 9d956594d6
replaced ntfscluster with ntfsresize (see #350789)
Closes#47 - GParted is slow refreshing NTFS file systems
With that same commit in parted 1.9 [1], libparted only recognised these
linux-swap names via deprecated aliases:
linux-swap(old)
linux-swap(new)
but does accept this name as a current alias:
linux-swap
for:
linux-swap(v1)
Demonstration:
# parted -v
parted (GNU parted) 2.1
...
# parted /dev/sdc mkfs yes 1 "linux-swap(new)" unit s print
...
[0] filesys.c:148 (ped_file_system_type_get(): File system alias linux-swap(new) is deprecated
...
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 2048s 2099199s 2097152s primary linux-swap(v1)
# parted /dev/sdc mkfs yes 1 "linux-swap" unit s print
...
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 2048s 2099199s 2097152s primary linux-swap(v1)
Again as GParted now requires libparted 2.2 or later:
1) Stop using alternative "linux-swap(new)" name as that is deprecated
by libparted.
2) Also stop using alternative "linux-swap(v1)" name as that code is
never used because libparted recognised the GParted "linux-swap"
name as a current alias.
[1] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/parted.git/commit/?id=cfafa4394998a11f871a0f8d172b13314f9062c2
Rationalise linux-swap fs names, and add a "linux-swap" alias
With this commit in parted 1.8.3 [1], libparted changed from reporting
the name of Linux swap as:
linux-swap
to reporting either:
linux-swap(old)
linux-swap(new)
Later with this commit in parted 1.9 [2], libparted stopped reporting
those names and reported these instead:
linux-swap(v0)
linux-swap(v1)
Demonstration:
# mkswap /dev/sdc1
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 1048572 KiB
no label, UUID=a2010834-003d-4bf2-9e94-58383fe20a26
# blkid /dev/sdc1
/dev/sdc1: UUID="a2010834-003d-4bf2-9e94-58383fe20a26" TYPE="swap"
# parted -v
parted (GNU parted) 2.1
...
# parted /dev/sdc unit s print
...
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 2048s 2099199s 2097152s primary linux-swap(v1)
As GParted now requires libparted 2.2 or later [3], remove recognition
for those no longer libparted reported linux-swap names. Note that the
"swap" name is reported by blkid.
[1] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/parted.git/commit/?id=98a53fd115ca012edf226525b8d4be628454f99e
Enable support for swsusp partitions, and the ability to
differentiate between old and new versions of linux-swap partitions.
Changed the swap_init signature and removed extra ped_geometry_read
from _swap*_open.
[2] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/parted.git/commit/?id=cfafa4394998a11f871a0f8d172b13314f9062c2
Rationalise linux-swap fs names, and add a "linux-swap" alias
[3] 8df975c7d1
Increase minimum required libparted to 2.2 (!22)
Formatting a partition to cleared over the top of LVM2 PV leaves the
"lvm" flag set on the partition; where as formatting with an actual file
system over the top of an LVM2 PV clears the "lvm" flag. This is true
for both MSDOS and GPT partitioned drives.
Fix by setting the partition type when formatting to cleared too.
Closes!36 - Set partition type when clearing partition contents
Having a member variable named 't' which is used to share state in a
Dialog_Progress object between on_signal_show() and on_cancel() methods
is horrible. Rename to something more meaningful.
Also initialise m_curr_op in the constructor's initialisation list,
rather than later when first used in on_signal_show(). Not strictly
required, but avoids this POD (Plain Old Data) member variable being
undefined in the Dialog_Progress object between construction and when
on_signal_show() previously assigned to it for the first time and
started using it.
* C++ FAQ / Should my constructors use "initialization lists" or
"assignment"?
https://isocpp.org/wiki/faq/ctors#init-lists
Writes the starting device overview information of all known devices to
the top of the saved details HTML. This is so that hopefully we don't
need to additionally ask users for their disk layouts via 'fdisk -l',
'parted print' and 'lsblk' when the saved details file is provided.
Also moves the equals separators "==================" from below to
above each operation so the each section is separated.
Bug 639176 - Save partition layout to gparted_details.htm
Some icon themes only provide large icons for stock items. This can
cause problems like overly large icons appearing in the GParted UI.
Found on Kubuntu 16.04 LTS with default breeze icon theme.
Be compatible with these icon themes by forcing scaling of stock icons
to the requested size.
Icons are used either by Gtk::Image widgets, or Gtk::CellRendererPixbuf
objects for comboboxes/treeviews. For Gtk::Image widgets we add
Utils::mk_image() that constructs Gtk::Image widgets and then sets the
pixel-size property. For Gtk::CellRendererPixbuf we add
Utils::mk_pixbuf() that first loads a Gdk::Pixbuf and then scales if
needed.
Closes#39 - After GTK3 port icons are too big on KDE
- Back in Fedora 22 the distribution switched from using yum to dnf for
package installation, while CentOS / RHEL continues to use yum.
Separate out package instructions.
- Update package dependencies for what is required on current versions
of the documented distributions.
To further help in diagnosing root authorisation issues by reporting the
error message to the terminal too. Also set a failure exit status when
terminating with this error.
Example:
$ ./gpartedbin
GParted 0.33.0-git
configuration --enable-online-resize
libparted 3.2
Root privileges are required for running GParted
$ echo $?
1
Closes!34 - Display more version and configuration information
So that the new version and configuration information is displayed even
if the gpartedbin executable is run as a non-root user. To help with
diagnosing root authorisation issues with the gparted shell wrapper
script.
Closes!34 - Display more version and configuration information
For consistency save the 3 same lines of information into the saved
operation details. None of the new 3 lines are subject to translation.
As this information is really for our benefit when supporting users
leaving them as English is OK. Also "GParted" and "Libparted", as
previously used, are proper nouns so they were never changed as part of
any language translation. See with:
egrep -r '"(GParted|Libparted)"' po/
Closes!34 - Display more version and configuration information
So that we might get more information from users when helping them.
Starting GParted from the command line now looks like this:
# ./gpartedbin
GParted 0.33.0-git
configuration --enable-online-resize
libparted 3.2
Closes!34 - Display more version and configuration information
Running GParted on AltLinux with dmraid installed but with no configured
RAID arrays produces this error:
# gparted
...
Could not stat device /dev/mapper/No RAID disks - No such file or directory.
Most distributions use dmraid 1.0.0.rc16 which reports no raid disks
like this:
# dmraid -sa -c
no raid disks
# echo $?
1
However AltLinux had the slightly older version, dmraid 1.0.0.rc14,
which reported no raid disks like this:
# dmraid -sa -c
No RAID disks
# echo $?
0
So because dmraid 1.0.0.rc14 reported success, exit status 0, and the
"No RAID disks" message was not in lower case, that text was considered
a disk device in a DMRaid array. Fix by checking for "no raid disks" in
any case.
Bug 786031 - Could not stat device /dev/mapper/No RAID disks - No such
file or directory
Glibmm has implemented a ustring::compose() set of methods [1] since
Glibmm 2.16, circa 2008. So replace String::ucompose(). Note that
GParted already requires glibmm >= 2.32 as set in configure.ac.
This commit just replaces all the method calls. Edit created by:
sed -i 's|String::ucompose *|Glib::ustring::compose|' src/*.cc
[1] Glibmm Reference Manual, Glib::ustring Class, compose() method
https://developer.gnome.org/glibmm/2.32/classGlib_1_1ustring.html#a64ff7ac3d9e9899c2910f1d831f8d500Closes#46 - Drop compose subdir
Fix to make mkfs.f2fs properly handle labels longer than 16 characters
was included in f2fs-tools 1.2.0 [1]. The oldest supported
distributions now include this release:
Distro EOL f2fs-tools
- Debian 8 2020-Jun 1.4.0
- RHEL / CentOS 7 2024-Jun 1.4.1
- SLES 12 2027-Oct Unknown
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 2019-Apr 1.2.0
Note that on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS blkid from util-linux 2.20.1 is too old to
recognise F2FS file systems, as 2.23 is required for F2FS support [2].
mkfs.f2fs claims the maximum label length is less than 512 characters,
but actually accepts 512 characters.
# label=`head -c 1024 < /dev/zero | tr '\0' 'A'`
# mkfs.f2fs -l `echo -n "$label" | cut -c1-513` /dev/sdb10
F2FS-tools: mkfs.f2fs Ver: 1.4.0 (2014-09-18)
Error: Volume Label should be less than 512 characters
Usage: mkfs.f2fs [options] device [sectors]
[options]:
-a heap-based allocation [default:1]
-d debug level [default:0]
-e [extension list] e.g. "mp3,gif,mov"
-l label
-o overprovision ratio [default:5]
-s # of segments per section [default:1]
-z # of sections per zone [default:1]
-t 0: nodiscard, 1: discard [default:1]
sectors: number of sectors. [default: determined by device size]
# echo $?
1
# mkfs.f2fs -l `echo -n "$label" | cut -c1-512` /dev/sdb10
F2FS-tools: mkfs.f2fs Ver: 1.4.0 (2014-09-18)
Info: Label = AAAAAAAAAAAA...[trimmed from 512 "A"s]...AAAAAAAAAAAA
Info: sector size = 512
Info: total sectors = 1048576 (in 512bytes)
Info: zone aligned segment0 blkaddr: 256
Info: Discarding device
Info: This device doesn't support TRIM
Info: format successful
# echo $?
0
# blkid -V
blkid from util-linux 2.25.2 (libblkid 2.25.0, 24-Oct-2014)
# blkid /dev/sdb
/dev/sdb10: LABEL="AAAAAAAAAAAA...[only 127 "A"s]...AAAAAAAAAAAA"
UUID="f47f3fdc-dd91-4616-bb6d-0d643a884265" TYPE="f2fs"
PARTUUID="3bb4bef8-9494-4e82-8dda-5d8edd9c60d9"
As blkid only reports the first 127 characters and is the only command
used for reading the label of an F2FS file system, use this as the new
increased limit.
[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs-tools.git/commit/?id=9799d6364dc93e1fd259d812d4a50ed984a6456b
mkfs: handle labels longer than 16 characters
[2] https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.23/v2.23-ReleaseNotes
"add Flash-Friendly File System (f2fs) support [Alejandro Martinez
Ruiz]"
Closes!29 - Enhance F2FS support
On CentOS 7 with f2fs-tools 1.4.1, checking an F2FS file system fails
like this:
# fsck.f2fs -f -y -a /dev/sdb3
Info: Force to fix corruption
fsck.f2fs: invalid option -- 'y'
Error: Unknown option ?
Usage: fsck.f2fs [options] device
[options]:
-a check/fix potential corruption, reported by f2fs
-d debug level default:0]
-f check/fix entire partition
-t show directory tree [-d -1]
# echo $?
1
Turns out that the '-y' option was not available until f2fs-tools 1.10.0
and is identical to the existing '-f' option anyway [1], which GParted
already uses. Just remove the '-y' option passed to fsck.f2fs.
[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs-tools.git/commit/?id=55ee9e7202f84168f868d863da8ed1c4995a0e6d
fsck.f2fs: add -y for generic fsck
Closes!29 - Enhance F2FS support
Before this commit [1] first included in f2fs-tools 1.5.0, dump.f2fs
didn't report the total space used by the file system. This causes F2FS
file system usage not be reported on older distributions, including
RHEL/CentOS 7 and Debian 8.
On CentOS 7:
# rpm -q f2fs-tools
f2fs-tools-1.4.1-2.el7.nux.x86_64
# dump.f2fs -d 1 /dev/sdb3 | egrep 'sector size =|total.*sectors ='
Info: sector size = 512
Info: total sectors = 2097152 (in 512 bytes)
On Fedora 28:
# rpm -q f2fs-tools
f2f2-tools-1.10.0-1.fc28.x86_64
# dump.f2fs -d 1 /dev/sdb2 | egrep -a 'sector size =|total.*sectors ='
Info: sector size = 512
Info: total sectors = 3145728 (1536 MB)
Info: total FS sectors = 2621440 (1280 MB)
"total sectors" reports the size of the partition.
"total FS sectors" reports the size of the file system.
Cope with the file system size being missing. Pass -1 as the file
system size to partition.set_sector_usage() in this case. Note that
this means GParted won't be able to detect and report unallocated space
within the partition when using f2fs-tools < 1.5.0.
[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs-tools.git/commit/?id=fea6162a6db9af527648262d9fbb0335a0cc5460
fsck.f2fs: show total sectors consumed by filesystem
Closes!29 - Enhance F2FS support
On Fedora 28 with f2fs-tools 1.10.0, dump.f2fs is producing NUL
characters in it's output and this completely breaks the parsing code in
f2fs::set_used_sectors(). Glib::Regex, as used by
Utils::regexp_label(), just doesn't match any text after the first NUL
character from the output.
# dump.f2fs -d 1 /dev/sdb1
Info: Debug level = 1
Info: [/dev/sdb1] Disk Model: VBOX HARDDISK 1.0 ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^...
Info: Segments per section = 1
Info: Sections per zone = 1
Info: sector size = 512
Info: total sectors = 2097152 (1024 MB)
...
Grep thinks the output is binary too:
# dump.f2fs -d 1 /dev/sdb1 | \
> egrep 'valid_block_count|user_block_count|log_blocksize|sector size =|total FS sectors ='
Binary file (standard input) matches
# dump.f2fs -d 1 /dev/sdb1 | \
> egrep --text 'valid_block_count|user_block_count|log_blocksize|sector size =|total FS sectors ='
Info: sector size = 512
log_blocksize [0x c : 12]
Info: total FS sectors = 2097152 (1024 MB)
user_block_count [0x 36400 : 222208]
valid_block_count [0x 2 : 2]
Re-write set_used_sectors() using string find() and sscanf() to be
similar to how a number of the other set_used_sectors() are written for
other file systems.
Closes!29 - Enhance F2FS support
Now that GParted requires Gtk3 there is no need to use floating point
numbers for compatibility with Gtk <= 2.22. Replace with symbolic
alignment constants.
Relevant commit history:
* 6efa623401
Add optional yalign argument to Utils::mk_label() method
* be2689ad25
Stop using deprecated widget alignment enumerators (#652044)
btrfs-progs 3.12 includes 'btrfs filesystem label /dev/PTN NEWLABEL'
functionality so stop checking for this before enabling setting the
label.
$ btrfs version
Btrfs v3.12
$ btrfs filesystem label --help
usage: btrfs filesystem label [<device>|<mount_point>] [<newlabel>]
Get or change the label of a filesystem
With one argument, get the label of filesystem on <device>.
If <newlabel> is passed, set the filesystem label on <newlabel>.
$ echo $?
0
Worst case scenario is that some how an old version of the btrfs command
is used which doesn't support the labelling functionality. Then this
commit would change GParted from disallowing labelling of a btrfs, to
allowing it, but presumably it would fail with an error from the btrfs
command reporting so. Arguably better from a support point of view.
Closes!26 - Remove support for btrfs-progs < 3.12
This commit [1] from btrfs-progs 3.12 removed the previously deprecated
programs btrfsctl and btrfs-show. As btrfs-progs 3.12 is now the
minimum requirement, remove support for those removed programs.
This commit is just removing the use of btrfs-show as a fallback to read
the label.
Note that 'btrfs-show /dev/PTN' didn't distinguish between a label of
"none" and no label. Hence the logic in btrfs::read_label() to do with
matching the label "none", or matching the label with or without single
quotes. Unfortunately as identified in this commit [2]
'btrfs filesystem show /dev/PTN' is subject to the same issue, but only
when the file system is mounted and only for btrfs-progs 3.12. This was
fixed by this commit [3] from btrfs-progs 3.14.
[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kdave/btrfs-progs.git/commit/?id=f243fcd1b2aa55ffadfbcc032c66dedbee56e79e
Removing btrfsctl, btrfs-vol, btrfs-show
[2] eca732fb0c
Update parsing of btrfs filesystem show for the label (#733601)
[3] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kdave/btrfs-progs.git/commit/?id=a156b967ed9bd606afa8dc402451abcf07226c17
btrfs-progs: make filesystem show by label work
Closes!26 - Remove support for btrfs-progs < 3.12
PATCHSET OVERVIEW
The oldest supported distributions have these versions of the Linux
kernel and btrfs-progs:
Distro EOL kernel btrfs-progs
- RHEL / CentOS 7 2024-Jun 3.10.0 4.9.1
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 2019-Apr 4.4.0 3.12
- Debian 8 2020-Jun 3.16.0 3.17
- SLES 12 2027-Oct 3.12.28 3.16
Making the oldest supported packages be kernel 3.10 and btrfs-progs 3.12
allows the btrfs support code to be simplified by removing backward
compatibility.
THIS CHANGE
Remove old workaround for ignoring the error when resizing a btrfs to
the same size on Linux kernel < 3.2.
Also now that only exit status 0 is considered successful from btrfs
resize, the EXEC_CHECK_STATUS flag to execute_command() can be used,
rather than having to separately call set_status() afterwards.
Relevant commit history:
* 11d044dba0
Don't ignore any errors resizing btrfs on Linux >= 3.2 (#669389)
* a580abbc30
Use newer btrfs multi-tool control command first
Closes!26 - Remove support for btrfs-progs < 3.12
The title has never been set in this case, and defaulted to the name of
the executable 'gpartedbin'. Fix this.
Closes#44 - Title not set in Resize/Move dialog for extended partitions
'launched' local POD (Plain Old Data) variable was left uninitialised,
but was set in both the try and catch clauses. Best practice is to
initialise when defined, so do that instead. Cosmetic change.
It is not creating a dialog (a pop-up window managed by GParted code
itself). It is launching independent yelp program to display the help,
so remove the "_dialog" from the name to avoid any possible confusion.
Originally, if the yelp command was not installed, attempting to display
help produced an error dialog with this message:
Failed to execute child process "yelp" (No such file or directory)
However since this commit during the Gtk 3 port [1] the error message
became this less useful one:
Operation not supported
Two attempts are made to display the GParted Manual, first using
gtk_show_uri() and second by executing the yelp command directly. Prior
to the aforementioned commit [1] both methods returned the failure
reason using the same 'error' variable. Hence reported the message
"Failed to execute child process "yelp" ..." from the second attempt.
However that commit had to re-code the second method as part of the Gtk
3 port and use a different error returning mechanism, thus the use of
different variable 'e'. But the dialog was left reporting the message
from the original 'error' variable, thus reporting "Operation not
supported" message from the first attempt using gtk_show_uri().
Fix by again displaying the message from the second failure into the
error dialog. Also make it very clear there are two error returning
variables by naming them 'error1' and 'error2_msg'.
[1] 2953778a4c
port-to-gtk3: Use Gdk::AppLaunchContext to launch yelp (#7)
Mike Fleetwood