With the removal of the 512 byte constants, such as MEBIBYTE, it
was possible to rename the _FACTOR constants back to BYTE
constants. The _FACTOR constants, such as MEBI_FACTOR, were a
temporary measure to help in the transition to support devices
with sector sizes > 512 bytes.
The device sector size is needed in all calculations that convert
between sectors and bytes. The device sector_size is included in
the partition object because this object is used to contain
operation information in addition to actual partitions and
unallocated space. A second option was considered to pass the
device object to many methods, but this was considered a much
larger task that might not provide significant gains in
maintainability.
According to parted documentation, only "msdos" and "dvh" disk
types (or partition table types) support extended partitions.
All other disk types support primary partitions only.
Remove commented code and boolean use-C-lang parameter for
Utils::num_to_str() method because this bug was fixed in
gcc-4.0.3. The GNU gcc compiler versions 4 and up are now
commonly in use. Also due to previous partial commenting and
removal of the code, the code was non-functional
Thanks goes to Jan Claeys for pointing out this clean up
opportunity.
Restore copyright entries by original author to those of his last
known repository commit titled "released gparted-0.3.4 on
LarryT's request." on Feb 25, 2007.
Add my own copyright entries for files in which I changed source
code. Files in which I only made spelling changes do not have my
copyright entry added.
Auto detection of Linux software RAID devices was lost in GParted
0.3.8. This was because device scanning by the libparted device
call ped_device_probe_all() was replaced with custom code within
GParted to scan /proc/partitions for devices.
The reason the libparted call was replaced was due to a long
scanning problem with ped_device_probe_all(), a non-existent
physical floppy device, and a BIOS setting indicating a floppy
drive existed. See bug #351753:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351753
Improve the feedback to the user when creating or pasting a
partition on a device with no partition table found.
Prior to this enhancement if a user tried to create or paste a
partition onto a device with no partition table found, GParted
would present the user with a Create Partition Table dialog.
When creating a new partition this could cause confusion for
users who were trying to format the disk. The user could
mistakenly believe the choice of an MS-DOS file system was being
presented.
Similarly on a paste operation it could be confusing to be
presented with a dialog to create a partition table without any
explanation of why a partition table was suddenly required in the
midst of the paste operation.
Neither the new partition creation, nor the partition paste
actions were performed after the Create Partition Table dialog
was displayed.
It appears that different dmraid versions handle specifying a
single dmraid device differently.
dmraid-1.0.0.rc14 uses a partial name only,
such as "isw" or "isw_cjbdddajhi".
dmriad-1.0.0.rc15 uses a full name only,
such as "isw_cjbdddajhi_Vol0".
To maintain compatibility with the broadest range of dmraid versions,
the ability to specify a single dmraid device is being removed.
Some distros appear to display /dev/dm-# device names with
libparted. Since this fails a pattern match with the dmraid
device name, check with udev to see if a pattern match is
possible with the name returned from udevinfo or udevadm info.
For example:
/dev/mapper/isw_cjbdddajhi_Vol0 is the device name
/dev/dm-0 is a symbolic link pointing to the above device name
Normally, the blkid command will detect the UUID for a file system.
In cases where blkid fails to detect the UUID and the vol_id command
is available, then try using the vol_id command.
- Changed title Features to File System Support.
- Renamed button Refresh to Rescan Support.
- Created expander for legend and added narrative.
- Removed columns detect and read.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=966
Curtis Gedak