After an NTFS file system has been resized the command GParted currently
uses to read the file system usage fails like this:
# ntfsinfo --mft /dev/sdb1
Volume is scheduled for check.
Please boot into Windows TWICE, or use the 'force' option.
NOTE: If you had not scheduled check and last time accessed this volume
using ntfsmount and shutdown system properly, then init scripts in your
distribution are broken. Please report to your distribution developers
(NOT to us!) that init scripts kill ntfsmount or mount.ntfs-fuse during
shutdown instead of proper umount.
Failed to open '/dev/sdb1'.
Fix by added the '--force' flag as described in the error message.
Closes#57 - NTFS Resize results in Partition Information Warning on
Refresh
GParted uses ntfsinfo to read the NTFS file system usage. However when
ntfsinfo fails with a non-zero exit status GParted reports stdout twice,
rather than stdout and stderr. Correct this.
Closes#57 - NTFS Resize results in Partition Information Warning on
Refresh
With the same case as from the previous commit, the very long "Mounted
on ..." text is now wrapped, but the text may not be left justified.
Slowly adjust the dialog width and see how the text wrapping is updated
to fit the size adjustment but the text is centred rather than left
justified.
This is because setting the halign property to Gtk::ALIGN_START does not
guarantee left alignment of text for wrapped or ellipsized Gtk::Labels.
Use the xalign property instead.
To set the xalign property there is a method in the GtkMisc (Gtk::Misc)
base class:
gtk_misc_set_alignment (Gtk::Misc::set_alignment)
However, GtkMisc (Gtk::Misc) was deprecated in Gtk 3.14 (Gtkmm 3.14)
and in Gtk 3.16 (gtkmm 3.16) set_alignment() was replaced with the
introduction of two new methods:
gtk_label_set_xalign (Gtk::Label::set_xalign)
gtk_label_set_yalign (Gtk::Label::set_yalign)
Add a check for Gtkmm method Gtk::Label::set_xalign() in configure.ac
and use it when available.
References:
[1] Gtk3 Reference Documentation - gtk_misc_set_alignment()
https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkMisc.html#gtk-misc-set-alignment
"gtk_misc_set_alignment has been deprecated since version 3.14 and
should not be used in newly-written code. Use GtkWidget's alignment
("halign" and "valign") and margin properties or GtkLabel's
"xalign" and "yalign" properties."
[2] Gtkmm 3.16 Gtk::Misc Class Reference, set_alignment() method
https://developer.gnome.org/gtkmm/3.16/classGtk_1_1Misc.html#a52b2675874cf46a3097938756b9fe9e8
[3] GNOME BugZilla - EmptyBoxes: instructions_label's alignment is off
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735841
[4] Gtk commit from 2014-09-16:
GtkLabel: add x/yalign properties
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/commit/d39424fc
[5] Gtk3 Reference Documentation - gtk_label_set_xalign()
https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkLabel.html#gtk-label-set-xalign
[6] Gtkmm 3.16 Gtk::Label Class Reference, set_xalign() method
https://developer.gnome.org/gtkmm/3.16/classGtk_1_1Label.html#acee7d4e87d7cc14080a7b8ded5f84e5eCloses!40 - Limit wrapping labels
Opening the Partition Information dialog for a file system mounted on a
very long mount point, or on openSUSE which mounts the OS from 10 btrfs
subvolumes from the same partition, will cause the dialog to be very
wide as the "Mounted on ..." text is not wrapped.
Back in Gtk2, when width_chars / max_width_chars were not set, wrapping
labels had a default width beyond which text wrapped onto a new line
[1].
For Gtk3 this default width was first reworked a bit [2], and then was
removed for the very early Gtk3 3.0.10 release [3].
It is recommended that applications explicitly set default values,
otherwise wrapping labels never wrap when requesting their natural
allocation.
References:
[1] Gtk 2.24.32 source code - gtk/gtklabel.c:2975
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/blob/2.24.32/gtk/gtklabel.c#L2975
"This long string gives a good enough length for any line to
have."
[2] Gtk commit from 2010-04-21:
680d7762ba
Make sure not to base the minimum size on "max-width-chars", only
the natural size.
"This string is just about long enough."
[3] Gtk commit from 2011-04-17:
c8ce1106c1
label: Don't try to guess a label's size
People should use window default sizes or label
width-chars/max-width-chars to find the ideal layout for a label
instead of relying on magic.
Closes!40 - Limit wrapping labels
Before Gtk 3.22 GtkScrolledWindow propagated natural size to its
Children and so on to descendants. In Gtk 3.22 this was changed to
always request the minimum size. This was done because it is believed
to be a safer default (gives a better behaviour) in case of dynamic
content inside the scrolled window, that is, content that may change
allocated size. [1][2][3]
When the scrolled window content is not dynamic the natural size is
preferable because it gives a better looking layout and without any
downside.
In the case of GParted content which is not dynamic, so request the
scrolled windows to allocate children at natural sizes for Gtk >= 3.22.
The benefits of natural size allocation are evident in presence of
wrapping labels (for example inside the "Partition Info" dialog), that
with the minimum size request likely end up taking a very small width.
References:
[1] Gtk commit from 2016-08-31:
GtkScrolledWindow: Make propagation of natural child sizes optional
0984d1622d
"Making propagation of child natural sizes mandatory (or default,
even) was evidently a mistake as this causes dynamic content in a
scrolled window to resize it's parent when the scrolled window is
competing for space with an adjacent widget."
[2] Gtk 3.22 Reference Documentation -
gtk_scrolled_window_set_propagate_natural_width
https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/3.22/GtkScrolledWindow.html#gtk-scrolled-window-set-propagate-natural-width
[3] Gtkmm 3.24 Gtk::ScrolledWindow Class Reference,
set_propagate_natural_width() method
https://developer.gnome.org/gtkmm/3.24/classGtk_1_1ScrolledWindow.html#a2d4cb945688ecb8739efd70b18742779
[4] Gtkmm 3.21.6 NEWS
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtkmm/blob/3.21.6/NEWS
"ScrolledWindow: Added get/set_propagate_natural_height/width() and
the properties."
Closes!39 - Always request natural size inside Gtk::ScrolledWindow
Gtk::Table was deprecated in Gtk 3.4.0. Replace with Gtk::Grid.
This commit makes the change for Dialog_Partition_Info.
Closes!25 - Modern Gtk3 - part 1
Gtk::Table was deprecated in Gtk 3.4.0. Replace with Gtk::Grid.
This commit makes the change for Dialog_Base_Partition.
Closes!25 - Modern Gtk3 - part 1
Gtk::HBox and Gtk::VBox were deprecated in Gtkmm 3.2. Replace with
plain Gtk::Box.
This commit makes the change for Dialog_Progress.cc.
Closes!25 - Modern Gtk3 - part 1
Gtk::HBox and Gtk::VBox were deprecated in Gtkmm 3.2. Replace with
plain Gtk::Box.
This commit makes the change for Dialog_Rescue_Data.cc.
Closes!25 - Modern Gtk3 - part 1
Gtk::HBox and Gtk::VBox were deprecated in Gtkmm 3.2. Replace with
plain Gtk::Box.
This commit makes the change for DialogPasswordEntry.cc.
Closes!25 - Modern Gtk3 - part 1
Gtk::HBox and Gtk::VBox were deprecated in Gtkmm 3.2. Replace with
plain Gtk::Box.
This commit makes the change for Dialog_Partition_Name.cc.
Closes!25 - Modern Gtk3 - part 1
Gtk::HBox and Gtk::VBox were deprecated in Gtkmm 3.2. Replace with
plain Gtk::Box.
This commit makes the change for Dialog_FileSystem_Label.cc.
Closes!25 - Modern Gtk3 - part 1
Gtk::HBox and Gtk::VBox were deprecated in Gtkmm 3.2. Replace with
plain Gtk::Box.
This commit makes the change for DialogFeatures.cc.
Closes!25 - Modern Gtk3 - part 1
Gtk::HBox and Gtk::VBox were deprecated in Gtkmm 3.2. Replace with
plain Gtk::Box.
This commit makes the change for Dialog_DiskLabel.cc.
Closes!25 - Modern Gtk3 - part 1
Gtk::HBox and Gtk::VBox were deprecated in Gtkmm 3.2. Replace with
plain Gtk::Box.
This commit makes the change for Dialog_Partition_Info.{h,cc}.
Closes!25 - Modern Gtk3 - part 1
Gtk::HBox and Gtk::VBox were deprecated in Gtkmm 3.2. Replace with
plain Gtk::Box.
This commit makes the change for Dialog_Base_Partition.{h,cc}.
Closes!25 - Modern Gtk3 - part 1
Gtk::HBox and Gtk::VBox were deprecated in Gtkmm 3.2. Replace with
plain Gtk::Box.
This commit makes the change for HBoxOperations.{h,cc}.
Closes!25 - Modern Gtk3 - part 1
Gtk::HBox and Gtk::VBox were deprecated in Gtkmm 3.2 [1]. Replace with
plain Gtk::Box.
This commit makes the change for Win_GParted.{h,cc}.
[1] Gtkmm 3.2.0 NEWS file (actually first included in gtkmm 3.1.6
unstable)
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtkmm/blob/3.2.0/NEWS#L91
Gtk:
* All H* or V* specialized classes have been deprecated, to
match the deprecations in the GTK+ C API. You should now
set the orientation instead.
This includes HBox, VBox, HButtonBox, VButtonBox, HPaned,
VPaned, HScale, VScale, HSeparator, VSeparator, HScrollbar and
VScrollbar.
Closes!25 - Modern Gtk3 - part 1
The Gdk::RGBA data type was introduced to replace Gdk::Color in
Gtkmm 3.0 [1], with Gdk::Color being deprecated in Gtkmm 3.10 [2].
With this commit we make the change to Gdk::RGBA data type which is the
modern replacement to Gdk::Color. Gdk::RGBA can be used almost as a
drop in replacement because it keeps most of the Gdk::Color interface.
Also, this commit removes the C Gtk call introduced during the
port-to-gtk3 patchset by commit:
5379352766
repare-for-gtk3: Prepare for removal of Gtk::Widget::modify_fg() (#7)
[1] Gtkmm 3.0.1 NEWS file
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtkmm/blob/3.0.1/NEWS#L48
* RGBA replaces Color, though Color still exists because it is
used by TextView. We hope to deprecated Color completely in
gtkmm 3.2.
[2] Gtkmm 3.10.0 NEWS file
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtkmm/blob/3.10.0/NEWS#L127
Gdk:
* Deprecate Color.
Closes!25 - Modern Gtk3 - part 1
Mostly add, but also remove, #includes so both DialogFeatures.h and .cc
include exactly the header files each needs to get the definitions they
use.
Header file #include guards are there to specifically enable this.
To better reflect that it is loading the supported actions for one file
system into the treeview, just like it's parent load_filesystems() is
initiating the loading for all the file systems.
Select a partition and look at the available actions in the Partition
menu. Then add or remove some commands which that particular file
system uses and rescan to detect those changes. Open the Partition menu
again. It doesn't reflect the changes of supported actions seen in the
File System Support dialog. Select a different partition and then
select the original partition again. Now the available actions in the
Partition menu reflect the changes of supported actions.
Have been testing by adding and removing /sbin/e2label to add and
remove EXT2/3/4 file system labelling support just because that feature
has existed for a very long time and EXT2/3/4 are displayed near the top
of the File System Support dialog. Tested this minor issue existed as
far back as GParted 0.3.7.
Fix by simply also refreshing the valid operations to update the
Partition menu after updating the found file system specific commands.
Closes!38 - Fixes for minor issues with File System Support rescanning
Open the File System Support dialog, either add or remove some file
system specific commands used by GParted and press the
[Rescan For Supported Actions] button. The supported actions don't
change. However after just closing and reopening the dialog, the
supported actions do reflect the added or removed file system specific
commands.
Bisected to this commit:
4d6d464664
Display "other" in the File System Support dialog (!13)
The problem is that commit made a subset copy of the
GParted_Core::FILESYSTEMS vector, obtained from get_filesystems(), so
when the rescan ran and the FILESYSTEMS vector was updated with new
supported actions, the dialog still displayed the original subset copy,
so didn't reflect the changed supported actions.
Fix by passing a reference to the GParted_Core::FILESYSTEMS vector,
obtained from get_filesystems(), and perform the necessary filtering
inside the dialog, like before the above faulty commit. Additionally
finding and adding "other" file system to the end of the list.
Closes!38 - Fixes for minor issues with File System Support rescanning
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
Claude Paroz