Moving the start sector of an extended partition should not adversely
affect booting an operating system because an extended partition is
only a container for logical partitions.
Add the ability to set a new random UUID on file systems that provide
the appropriate tools to perform this action.
Update the help manual to include this new functionality. Also add
reference links to "setting a partition label" and "changing a
partition UUID" in the "copying and pasting a partition" section.
This patch does not include setting the UUID on an NTFS file system.
Bug #667278 - Add support for setting UUID
Bug #608308 - fix documentation - Copying and Pasting a Partition
Inserted cast to int so that third parameter matches expected
parameter precision type.
Original warning:
FileSystem.cc: In member function ‘Glib::ustring
GParted::FileSystem::mk_temp_dir(const Glib::ustring&,
GParted::OperationDetail&)’:
FileSystem.cc:81:69: warning: field precision should have type ‘int’,
but argument 3 has type ‘long unsigned int’
Increase sleep time to decrease pulse bar update frequency.
Debian Bug 499193 - gparted: 100% cpu usage
Debian Bug 519764 - gparted: Lots of animation makes use over SSH
X-tunnel slow
There is a lot of commonality and code repetition for resizing of file
systems which can only be resized while mounted. Resizing of btrfs, jfs
and xfs all follow the pattern: mkdir, mount, resize, umount and rmdir.
Copying an xfs file system also uses a similar pattern, but for the
source and destination xfs file systems simultaneously.
Add three helper functions to the FileSystem class which implement
common tasks, allowing mounted file system resizing to be implemented
more simply.
Also add a function to the Utils class which checks whether the kernel
supports a file system. It handles the case of non-loaded modules,
which currently leads to reporting the growing of jfs and xfs as
unsupported.
We used to just log libparted exceptions without handling them. This patch
changes the exception handler to display a modal dialog box and return the
chosen action to libparted.
The call to "blkid -c /dev/null" on Precise Pangolin Alpha 1 takes
exceedingly long. This occurs when the BIOS is incorrectly set to
indicate a floppy drive is present when none is physically installed.
Use cached blkid results instead.
Ubuntu launchpad 910379 - Gparted does not start and continues to
scan devices
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gparted/+bug/910379
Setting the status and controlling the timing of operation details
initialised with OperationDetail(desc, status, font) uses a conditional
branch depending on the uninitialised variable this->status.
valgrind:
==28957== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)
==28957== at 0x80E4287:
GParted::OperationDetail::set_status(GParted::OperationDetailStatus)
(OperationDetail.cc:77)
OperationalDetail.cc:
75 void OperationDetail::set_status( OperationDetailStatus status )
76 {
>> 77 if ( this ->status != STATUS_ERROR )
78 {
79 switch ( status )
80 {
Requires libparted 2.4 or higher, or blkid from utils-linux 2.20 or
higher for nilfs2 file system detection.
Requires nilfs-utils for nilfs2 file system support.
Closes Bug #642842 - nilfs is not detected
When GParted performed operations or combinations of operations,
such as:
a) copy to same or smaller size destination partition
b) move to same or smaller size due to alignment change
c) resize to smaller size
a redundant maximize file system operation would occur.
Normally these redundant maximize operations to grow the file
system to take up all the space in the partition were not harmful.
However in situations where libparted failed to inform the kernel
of partition changes, then the extra maximize operation would
grow the file system to be the original partition size. In cases
where the original partition was larger than the new partition
size, this caused problems because the file system would be
larger than the partition on reboot.
This enhancement avoids redundant file system maximize actions on
copy, move, and resize, and should help reduce problems described
in the following links:
WARNING! Problem Resizing File Systems with GParted
http://gparted-forum.surf4.info/viewtopic.php?id=13777
Bug #601574 - ERROR: Current NTFS volume size is bigger than the
device size!
Bug #604298 - Problems resizing file systems with
gparted-live-0.5.0-3
Closes Bug #663980 - Avoid redundant file system maximize actions
on copy, move, and resize
Btrfsctl and btrfs-show were depreciated in October 2011 and have been
superseeded by the newer btrfs multi-tool control command. Use btrfs as
first choice, falling back to btrfsctl and btrfs-show when not found.
Marek Černocký