Since GParted commit 52a2a9b "Reduce threading (#685740)", released in
GParted 0.15.0, application of operations occurs in the main thread
running the UI, therefore long running libparted actions such as
resizing a FAT16 or FAT32 file system hang the UI for as long as it take
to complete the operation.
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gparted/commit/?id=52a2a9b00a32996921ace055e71d0e09fb33c5fe
Though this problem exists for all libparted actions, it is particularly
noticeable when performing a large resize of fat16/fat32/hfs/hfs+ file
systems.
To address this significant cause of an unresponsive GUI, this
enhancement adds threading to the libparted ped_file_system_resize
function call.
Bug 737022 - UI hangs while running libparted operations such as
FAT16/FAT32 resizing
Previously on every refresh for every device, GParted was searching the
PATH to discover if the hdparm command existed. Stracing GParted showed
that calling Glib::find_program_in_path("hdparm") made the following OS
calls:
access("/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin/hdparm", X_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/usr/local/sbin/hdparm", X_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/usr/local/bin/hdparm", X_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/sbin/hdparm", X_OK) = 0
getuid() = 0
stat("/sbin/hdparm", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=137, ...}) = 0
stat("/sbin/hdparm", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=137, ...}) = 0
The Linux VFS is very fast but repeatedly doing this is wasteful.
Remember the result of searching the PATH for the hdparm command at
startup and refresh this when the [Rescan For Supported Actions] button
is pressed in the File System Support dialog. This is the same as
GParted already does for file system specific commands and their
capabilities.
Bug 751251 - Show serial number in device information
Run "hdparm -I /dev/DISK" to get the hard drive serial number of
every device which has one and display it in the Device Information.
The displayed value can either be the actual serial number, "none" or
blank. "none" means the device doesn't have a hard drive serial number,
such as for Linux software RAID arrays, BIOS fake RAID arrays or USB
flash drives. Blank means something went wrong getting the serial
number. Either it couldn't be found in the hdparm output or the hdparm
command wasn't installed.
Example real hard drive:
# hdparm -I /dev/sda
...
ATA device, with non-removable media
Model Number: SAMSUNG HM500JI
Serial Number: S1WFJDSZ123732
...
Example Linux software RAID array:
# hdparm -I /dev/md127
/dev/md127:
HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
On my desktop with 4 internal hard drives 2 Linux software RAID arrays
on those hard drives, 2 USB flash drives and 1 USB hard drive attached,
running hdparm 9 times added 0.07 seconds to the device refresh time.
Bug 751251 - Show serial number in device information
Rename a couple of GParted_Core methods for consistency and to better
distinguish get_filesystem() from get_filesystems() which do completely
unrelated things.
get_filesystem() -> detect_filesystem()
recognise_filesystem_signature() -> detect_filesystem_internal()
Also make detect_filesystem() a static member method as it doesn't use
any member variables. Requirement cascades to get_partition_path().
GParted_Core methods:
flush_device()
get_device()
get_disk()
get_device_and_disk()
destroy_device_and_disk()
commit()
commit_to_os()
settle_device()
This group of methods only call libparted API functions and run external
executables. None of them access any GParted_Core member variables.
Make them all static member functions.
These member functions are only used within the GParted_Core class and
only operate on the static member variable FILESYSTEM_MAP.
Make both functions private and also make init_filesystems() static.
The FileSystem objects stored in the FILESYSTEM_MAP are allocated once
using new in init_filesystems() but never deleted.
Valgrind output fragment:
# valgrind --leak-check=full ./gparted
==29314== 353 (72 direct, 281 indirect) bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 6,287 of 6,905
==29314== at 0x4A075FC: operator new(unsigned long) (vg_replace_malloc.c:298)
>> ==29314== by 0x46EDA5: GParted::GParted_Core::init_filesystems() (GParted_Core.cc:106)
==29314== by 0x46EC5F: GParted::GParted_Core::GParted_Core() (GParted_Core.cc:96)
==29314== by 0x4A74F4: GParted::Win_GParted::Win_GParted(std::vector<Glib::ustring, std::allocator<Glib::ustring> > const&) (Win_GParted.cc:51)
==29314== by 0x4D600A: main (main.cc:56)
...
==29314== 161 (72 direct, 89 indirect) bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 6,119 of 6,905
==29314== at 0x4A075FC: operator new(unsigned long) (vg_replace_malloc.c:298)
>> ==29314== by 0x46F50C: GParted::GParted_Core::init_filesystems() (GParted_Core.cc:124)
==29314== by 0x46EC5F: GParted::GParted_Core::GParted_Core() (GParted_Core.cc:96)
==29314== by 0x4A74F4: GParted::Win_GParted::Win_GParted(std::vector<Glib::ustring, std::allocator<Glib::ustring> > const&) (Win_GParted.cc:51)
==29314== by 0x4D600A: main (main.cc:56)
GParted_Core.cc source:
102 void GParted_Core::init_filesystems()
103 {
104 FILESYSTEM_MAP[ FS_UNKNOWN ] = NULL ;
105 FILESYSTEM_MAP[ FS_CLEARED ] = NULL ;
>> 106 FILESYSTEM_MAP[ FS_BTRFS ] = new btrfs() ;
...
>> 124 FILESYSTEM_MAP[ FS_XFS ] = new xfs() ;
125 FILESYSTEM_MAP[ FS_BITLOCKER ] = NULL ;
Fix by deleting all FILESYSTEM_MAP pointers. Note that delete on a NULL
pointer is defined by C++ as a safe do nothing operation.
C++ FAQ / Do I need to check for null before delete p?
https://isocpp.org/wiki/faq/freestore-mgmt#delete-handles-null
Fixing this reduces the valgrind reported definitely lost memory blocks
count from 25 down to 6. 19 FileSystem objects deleted and 19 memory
blocks no longer lost.
Bug 749036 - FileSystem objects are memory leaked in init_filesystems()
resize_move() and move() stopped using the device parameter in this
commit from 2006-07-23:
d663c3c277
removed cylindersize buffering during resize from the filesystems. It is
create() stopped using the device parameter in this commit from 2006-03-19:
ad9f2126e7
fixed issues with copying (see also #335004) cleanups + added FIXME added
For reference most other operation methods had the device parameter
removed in this earlier commit from 2005-12-07:
642f0a145b
from now on each partition has a reference to it's device. make use of new
When the following conditions were met GParted would fail to recognise a
newly created whole disk device file system, and instead show an unknown
file system filling the disk:
1) Disk was previously partitioned and contained at least one partition.
2) Using libparted version 2.0 to 3.0 inclusive.
Initial status:
# blkid | fgrep sdc
# fgrep sdc /proc/partitions
8 32 976762584 sdc
8 33 104857600 sdc1
# parted /dev/sdc
GNU Parted 2.4
Using /dev/sdc
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) print
Model: ATA ST1000LM024 HN-M (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdc: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 107GB 107GB primary
When creating the loop partition table libparted would not inform the
kernel to delete the old partitions. /proc/partitions still contained
the details of the old partitions.
(parted) mktable loop
Warning: The existing disk label on /dev/sdc will be destroyed and
all data on this disk will be lost. Do you want to continue?
Yes/No? Yes
(parted) print
Model: ATA ST1000LM024 HN-M (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdc: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: loop
Number Start End Size File system Flags
(parted) quit
# fgrep sdc /proc/partitions
8 32 976762584 sdc
8 33 104857600 sdc1
Creation of the whole disk device file system goes unnoticed by blkid
because the kernel and therefore blkid's cache have stale partition
information.
# mkfs.xfs -f /dev/sdc
# blkid | fgrep sdc
NOTE:
On a Linux Software RAID array, as opposed to a hard disk, blkid does
notice creation of the whole disk device file system. However the
kernel still has old partition details.
This was fixed in libparted 3.1 by commit:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/parted.git/commit/?id=f5c909c0cd50ed52a48dae6d35907dc08b137e88
libparted: remove has_partitions check to allow loopback partitions
Fix by deleting old partitions before creating the loop table when
compiled with a broken version of libparted. The GParted UI provides
no feedback while a new partition table is created, and with some
versions of GTK the UI become unresponsive too, so it is important to be
as fast as possible. Evaluated three different methods, deleting 15 and
22 MSDOS partitions on a physical 5400 RPM hard drive using libparted
2.4:
M1) Delete and commit one partition at a time.
Takes up to 24 seconds to delete 15 partitions. With 22 partitions
libparted always reports finding some of the partitions busy and
unable to inform the kernel about the modifications.
Too slow and doesn't work.
M2) Delete all partitions in one go and commit once.
Takes up to 1.4 seconds to delete either 15 or 22 partitions. Never
removes partitions 17 and higher from the kernel.
Doesn't work.
M3) Write GPT table (letting libparted delete any old partitions).
Takes up to 0.8 seconds to delete either 15 or 22 partitions.
Fast and works.
Use method 3 - write a GPT table thus using libparted code to inform the
kernel of the old partition deletions.
Bug 743181 - Add unpartitioned drive read-write support
When writing "loop" partition table over the top of some whole disk
device file system types GParted continued to show those whole disk
device file systems rather than the virtual unknown partition from the
"loop" partition table.
This affected btrfs, jfs, reiser4 and reiserfs. It occurred because of
several factors:
1) Libparted only zeroed the first and last 9.5 KiB (assuming 512 byte
sectors) of the device before writing a new partition table. See
ped_disk_clobber().
2) These file systems have their super blocks and therefore signatures
after the first 9.5 KiB.
3) Whole disk device file system detection is performed using blkid
before checking for a libparted "loop" partition table. See
GParted_Core::set_devices_thread().
Ref:
libparted 3.2: disk.c:ped_disk_clobber()
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/parted.git/tree/libparted/disk.c?id=v3.2#n302
Fix by always erasing any possible file system signatures on the device
before creating a new "loop" partition table.
NOTE:
This is typically taking up to 0.5 seconds in my testing on a 5400 RPM
hard drive, during which time the GParted UI is hung and the create
partition table dialog shows the apply button pressed but no other
progress indication.
Bug 743181 - Add unpartitioned drive read-write support
get_device_and_disk() basically calls libparted to get a PedDevice
object representing a disk device and a PedDisk object representing a
partition table. Re-implement get_device_and_disk() using two separate
functions, get_device() and get_disk(), to get one of these objects
each.
No functionality changes with this commit. It enables future commits to
incrementally add support for whole disk devices into GParted without
needing libparted to recognise the contents and create a virtual "loop"
partition table.
Bug 743181 - Add unpartitioned drive read-write support
For file systems which libparted recognises, when found on the whole
disk device, it reports with partition table "loop" and a partition
covering the whole disk. GParted duly displays this to the user.
For file systems which libparted doesn't recognise it reports
"unrecognised disk label". As of the latest libparted 3.2, these file
system aren't recognised and can't currently be shown when on the whole
disk device:
BitLocker, Crypt LUKS, exFAT, F2FS, LVM2 Physical Volume,
Linux Software RAID, ReFS, Reiser 4
So only when libparted doesn't recognise a file system on the whole disk
device and GParted does, either via blkid or it's internal code, display
this with partition table "none".
Bug 741430 - GParted cannot recognise LVM signature on unpartitioned
drive
Move code which queries the file system label and UUID of a partition
into a separate helper function.
Bug 741430 - GParted cannot recognise LVM signature on unpartitioned
drive
Refactor GParted internal file system signature detection to remove code
duplication. There were 5 separate copies of code to: allocate a
buffer, open, read and close the device, free the buffer and compare the
signature.
Bug 741430 - GParted cannot recognise LVM signature on unpartitioned
drive
Embedded devices (Android) use GPT partition names to identify
partitions, instead of file system labels. Add support for viewing and
changing them.
As partition names are used to provide unique identification they are
never copied when copying the contents of one partition to another.
Note that GNU/Linux uses file system labels, UUIDs or device names for
identification during the boot process and afterwards so while partition
names can be used, they are optional and purely for user information.
Bug 741424 - Add support for GPT partition names
Helper to check whether a recognised file system type is supported by
GParted or not. Supported means there is an implementation class and
will appear in the File System Support dialog.
Make supported_filesystem() a static member function so that it can be
called without a class object so that GParted_Core::GParted_Core()
initialiser isn't called multiple times. This requires FILESYSTEM_MAP
to become a static member variable too.
Bug #738471 - ReFS file system is not recognised
get_filesystem_object() takes a constant reference to a FILESYSTEM, but
FILESYSTEM is just an enumeration. So that's a pointer to a constant
int. Just pass by value instead.
Remove HAVE_LIBPARTED_3_1_0_PLUS definition and replace Autoconf
check for libparted >= 3.1
Currently uses custom check which compiles an executable to check for
libparted version >= 3.1 to determine the availability of the library
parted-fs-resize and the need to include the header <parted/filesys.h>.
Change to use a direct Autoconf check to determine the availability of
the ped_file_system_resize() function in the parted-fs-resize library.
Remove inclusion of the header <parted/filesys.h> as it has always been
included via <parted/parted.h>, at least as far back as parted 1.8.0,
and even in parted 3.0 when ped_file_system_resize() and libparted file
system resize capability didn't exist.
Bug #734718 - Update Autoconf version specific libparted checks and
defines to feature specific ones
While one partition is busy, reformat another partition from the command
line. Afterwards parted/libparted still detects the original file
system and GParted shows errors from the file system specific tools
reporting the new file system doesn't exist. Only limitation is that
the new new file system must be recognised by libparted (or by GParted's
fallback file system signature detection).
Case #1, File system reformatting:
# parted /dev/sdb print
Model: ATA SAMSUNG SSD UM41 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 8012MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 2149MB 2147MB primary ext2
2 2149MB 4296MB 2147MB primary ext2
# mount | fgrep sdb
/dev/sdb1 on /mnt/1 type ext2 (rw)
# mkfs.xfs -f /dev/sdb2
# blkid /dev/sdb2
/dev/sdb2: UUID="c31823a2-b81b-46fa-8246-0a59695e4834" TYPE="xfs"
# parted /dev/sdb print
Model: ATA SAMSUNG SSD UM41 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 8012MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 2149MB 2147MB primary ext2
2 2149MB 4296MB 2147MB primary ext2
# e2label /dev/sdb2
e2label: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sdb2
Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock.
# dumpe2fs /dev/sdb2
dumpe2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
dumpe2fs: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sdb2
Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock.
Case #2, Removing device from multi-device btrfs:
# btrfs filesystem show /dev/sdb1
Label: none uuid: a05db434-efd5-4e8c-902f-05f89a88b610
Total devices 2 FS bytes used 156.00KB
devid 2 size 2.00GB used 512.00MB path /dev/sdb2
devid 1 size 2.00GB used 240.75MB path /dev/sdb1
# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/1
# btrfs device delete /dev/sdb2
# btrfs filesystem show /dev/sdb1
Label: none uuid: a05db434-efd5-4e8c-902f-05f89a88b610
Total devices 1 FS bytes used 92.00KB
devid 1 size 2.00GB used 714.25MB path /dev/sdb1
# btrfs filesystem show /dev/sdb2
and GParted reports this error for partition /dev/sdb2:
Unable to read the contents of this file system!
Because of this some operations may be unavailable.
The cause might be a missing software package.
The following list of software packages is required for btrfs
file system support: btrfs-tools.
This is another case of libparted reading from the whole disk device
(/dev/sdb) yet the file system tools use the partition specific block
device (/dev/sdb2), and the Linux buffer cache not providing cache
coherency. Previous scenario was fixed with:
797f0b8eeb
Flush device after wiping a file system (#688882)
This affects libparted 2.0 to 3.1 inclusive and is fixed by:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/parted.git/commit/?id=fb99ba5ebd0dc34204fc9f1014131d5d494805bc
Revert "linux-commit: do not unnecessarily open partition device nodes"
Fix by calling ped_device_sync() to guarantee cache coherency for each
device during scanning.
Bug #723842 - GParted resizes the wrong filesystem (does not pass the
devid to btrfs filesystem resize)
With linux 3.5 and later, the device used to mount a btrfs file system
is updated in /proc/mounts when the previous mounting device is removed
from the file system. Most recent distributions make /etc/mtab a
symbolic link to /proc/mounts. However some still have /etc/mtab as a
plain file only updated by mount and umount, thus showing the old device
name which is no longer part of the file system.
On Ubuntu 13.10, which has /etc/mtab as a plain file managed by mount
and umount:
# mkfs.btrfs /dev/sdb1
# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/1
# btrfs device add /dev/sdb2 /mnt/1
# btrfs device delete /dev/sdb1 /mnt/1
# sync
# btrfs filesystem show /dev/sdb1
# btrfs filesystem show /dev/sdb2
Label: none uuid: e47775a6-e5ad-4fb4-9ea4-1570aa5b4009
Total devices 2 FS bytes used 28.00KB
devid 2 size 2.00GB used 272.00MB path /dev/sdb2
# fgrep btrfs /proc/mounts
/dev/sdb2 /mnt/1 btrfs rw,relatime,space_cache 0 0
# ls -l /etc/mtab
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 842 Apr 15 19:41 /etc/mtab
# fgrep btrfs /etc/mtab
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/1 btrfs rw 0 0
This causes GParted to report /dev/sdb1 as busy and mounted at /mnt/1
when it is no longer mounted. This effects recent releases of Ubuntu,
13.04, 13.10 and 14.04.
Either /etc/mtab is a symlink and is identical to /proc/mounts or
/etc/mtab is a plain file with wrong information. Fix by not reading
mounted file systems from /etc/mtab.
However old distributions only contain 'rootfs' and '/dev/root' device
names for the / (root) file system with '/dev/root' being a block device
rather than a symlink to the true device. For example from CentOS 5.x:
# fgrep ' / ' /proc/mounts
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
/dev/root / ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0
# ls -l /dev/root
brw------- 1 root root 8, 3 Jun 4 2013 /dev/root
This prevents identification, and therefore busy detection, of the
device containing the / (root) file system. Used to read /etc/mtab to
get the root file system device name.
# fgrep ' / ' /etc/mtab
/dev/sda3 / ext3 rw 0 0
# ls -l /dev/sda3
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 3 Jun 4 2013 /dev/sda3
As per commit:
409096f739
improved scanning for root mountpoint (/) ...
but, as discussed above, this contains an out of date device name after
the mounting device has been dynamically removed from a multi-device
btrfs, thus identifying the wrong device as busy. Instead fall back to
reading mounted file systems from the output of the mount command, but
only when required.
# mount | fgrep ' / '
/dev/sda3 on / type ext3 (rw)
Bug #723842 - GParted resizes the wrong filesystem (does not pass the
devid to btrfs filesystem resize)
Linux can only show a single device name in /proc/mounts and /etc/mtab
for each mounted btrfs, even if it is a multi-device file system. So
GParted only shows a mount point for one of the devices in the btrfs, no
matter how many devices are part of the file system.
# mkfs.btrfs /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb2
# btrfs filesystem show /dev/sdb1
Label: none uuid: 36eb51a2-2927-4c92-820f-b2f0b5cdae50
Total devices 2 FS bytes used 156.00KB
devid 2 size 2.00GB used 512.00MB path /dev/sdb2
devid 1 size 2.00GB used 240.75MB path /dev/sdb1
# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/1
# grep btrfs /proc/mounts
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/1 btrfs rw,seclabel,relatime,ssd,space_cache 0 0
GParted only shows the mount point for /dev/sdb1 as /mnt/1, but nothing
for /dev/sdb2.
Make GParted report the same mount point for all devices included in a
multi-device btrfs file system.
Add btrfs specific get_mount_device() method to report the mounting
device, if any, for the btrfs file system in the occupying the device in
question. Uses the existing cache of btrfs file system device
membership. Also extract common code from GParted_Core::
set_mountpoints() into set_mountpoints_helper().
Bug #723842 - GParted resizes the wrong filesystem (does not pass the
devid to btrfs filesystem resize)
Add static member function GParted_Core::is_dev_mounted() so that other
modules can determine if a particular partition contains a mounted file
system or not.
Make it a static member function so that it can be called without
needing the gparted_core object. Extend to make the group of
manipulated variables (mount_info, fstab_info) and manipulating
functions (init_maps(), read_mountpoints_from_file(),
read_mountpoints_from_file_swaps(), get_all_mountpoints()) static too.
Bug #723842 - GParted resizes the wrong filesystem (does not pass the
devid to btrfs filesystem resize)
GParted's primary inbuilt busy detection method is "is the partition
mounted?". A custom method is used for LVM2 PV because its not a
mounted file system.
Make busy detection selectable per file system type.
.fs.busy = FS::NONE (default)
No busy detection.
.fs.busy = FS::GPARTED
Use internal GParted method which checks if the partition is
mounted.
.fs.busy = FS:EXTERNAL
Call the file system type's member function is_busy().
LVM2 PV busy detection changes from a special case to just electing to
call the lvm2_pv::is_busy() method. Linux Software RAID remains a
special case because it's only recognised, but not otherwise supported.
Bug #723842 - GParted resizes the wrong filesystem (does not pass the
devid to btrfs filesystem resize)
The code used to unnecessarily destroy and re-create the file system
objects on every scan for file system support tools.
Instead only create the file system objects once and just call each
object's get_filesystem_support() method on each rescan.
Prior to commit:
1f3b11748e
Remove GParted_Core::p_filesystem (#683149)
set_proper_filesystems() used to set GParted_Core::p_filesystem member
variable to one of the FileSystem objects, but that was just treating it
like a local variable. After the commit local variables named
p_filesystem were used where required and set_proper_filesystem() became
a function which did nothing other than call get_filesystem_object().
Now remove set_proper_filesystem() altogether and use
get_filesystem_object() in its place.
This is part of parent bug:
Bug #721455 - Obsolete info in license text on multiple modules
and GNOME Goal:
https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/GnomeGoals/Proposals
* verify all source files to make sure they have a license and a
copyright, and that both are up-to-date
Bug #721565 - License text contains obsolete FSF postal address
In the Create Partition Table dialog display the entries in the combobox
in order.
Previously the default of MSDOS or GPT was moved to the first item in
the combobox. Now the partition table types remain in order with just
either MSDOS or GPT being selected as as the default as required.
The partition table types are displayed in the order supplied by
libparted, which is alphabetic except with "loop" last.
Bug #711098 - Default partition table can not handle > 2 TiB disks
MSDOS partition table is limited to addressing 2^32 sectors, limiting
disks using 512 byte sectors to 2 TiB in size. Fdisk reports the
following warning on disks 2 TiB and larger.
# truncate -s 2T /var/tmp/loop-2T
# losetup /dev/loop0 /var/tmp/loop-2T
# fdisk /dev/loop0
WARNING: The size of this disk is 2.2 TB (2199023255552 bytes).
DOS partition table format can not be used on drives for volumes
larger than (2199023255040 bytes) for 512-byte sectors. Use parted(1) and GUID
partition table format (GPT).
(Fdisk arguably reports this warning one sector too early. Anyway for
safety and consistency GParted will use this limit too). Continue to
use MSDOS as the default partition table type for disks smaller than 2
TiB and use GPT as the default for disks 2 TiB and larger. This
maximises compatibility.
Also remove the advanced expander and always show the partition table
list box.
Bug #711098 - Default partition table can not handle > 2 TiB disks
The read-only functionality is unused and the readonly parameter is
always false in copy_filesystem() and copy_blocks() methods. This has
been the case since the copy simulation was dropped by commit:
b9b4b2e55d
Remove simulation pass ( read test ) on move
Include guards need to be unique within GParted code and all included
library header files.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Include_guard#Difficulties
Use this model for all include guards:
#ifndef GPARTED_FILE_NAME_H
#define GPARTED_FILE_NAME_H
...
#endif /* GPARTED_FILE_NAME_H */
Closes Bug #539297 - Make include guards unique
These functions in GParted_Core:
open_device()
open_device_and_disk()
close_disk()
close_device_and_disk()
call the following functions in the libparted API:
ped_device_get()
ped_disk_new()
ped_disk_destroy()
ped_device_destroy()
which don't open or close anything. Instead they allocate and
deallocate PedDevice and PedDisk memory structures which describe block
devices and partition tables respectively.
Rename functions:
open_device_and_disk() -> get_device_and_disk()
close_device_and_disk() -> destroy_device_and_disk()
and merge open_device() and open_device() as each only wrapped one
libparted function and was only called from a single place.
The wipefs command has the following significant limitations which were
worked around in previous commits:
1) Wasn't available in the earliest distributions supported by GParted;
2) Had to be called 3 times to erase vfat (fat16/32) signatures in all
but the most recent versions.
This meant we had all the code to clear file system signatures without
using the wipefs command as well as extra complexity of using wipefs
too. So just remove use of the wipefs command.
Bug #688882 - Improve clearing of file system signatures
Before util-linux 2.21.0, released Feb 2012, wipefs only cleared one of
the three vfat (fat16/fat32) signatures it can be detected by each time
wipefs was run. Also if a nilfs2 file system was created before all
three signatures were cleared the partition was still recognised as a
vfat file system, albeit a corrupted one, rather than as a nilfs2 file
system.
Old wipefs clearing vfat signatures:
# wipefs --version
wipefs from util-linux 2.20.1
# wipefs -a /dev/sda7
8 bytes were erased at offset 0x52 (vfat)
they were: 46 41 54 33 32 20 20 20
# wipefs -a /dev/sda7
1 bytes were erased at offset 0x0 (vfat)
they were: eb
# wipefs -a /dev/sda7
2 bytes were erased at offset 0x1fe (vfat)
they were: 55 aa
New wipefs clearing vfat signatures:
# wipefs --version
wipefs from util-linux 2.21.2
# wipefs -a /dev/sda12
8 bytes were erased at offset 0x00000052 (vfat): 46 41 54 33 32 20 20 20
1 bytes were erased at offset 0x00000000 (vfat): eb
2 bytes were erased at offset 0x000001fe (vfat): 55 aa
Workaround by calling "wipefs -a" three times if the output indicated
only one vfat signature was cleared.
Bug #688882 - Improve clearing of file system signatures
Previously the function erase_filesystem_signatures() was used to clear
file system signatures when a new partition was created and when an
existing partition was formatted with a file system. However this was
only available with libparted <= 2.4 and then only for the file systems
which libparted supports.
Having multiple different file system signatures on a partition leads to
misidentification of file system. For example creating a nilfs2 over
the top of a fat32 file system is detected as a fat32, not nilfs2. This
shows that old file system signatures must be cleared before a new file
system is created.
Fix by always using "wipefs -a /dev/PARTITION" command to clear all old
file system signatures rather than libparted API calls. Failure from
wipefs is only considered a warning so doesn't fail the file system
creation. (This doesn't yet fully meet the "MUST be cleared"
requirement above. Will be fully met later in this patchset). Output
from the wipefs command is displayed as a new sub-step which looks like
this:
v Format /dev/sda7 as xfs 00:00:05
> calibrate /dev/sda14 00:00:01
v clear old file system signatures in /dev/sda7 00:00:01 [NEW]
> wipefs -a /dev/sda7 [NEW]
> set partition type on /dev/sda7 00:00:02
v create new xfs file system 00:00:01
> mkfs.xfs -f -L "" /dev/sda7
Also signatures are only cleared immediately before a new file system is
written and not when an unformatted partition is created. This allows
recovery from accidental partition deletion by re-creating the deleted
partition as unformatted.
Bug #688882 - Improve clearing of file system signatures
Interested operations can now connect a signal to their OperationDetail
to be notified of a cancelation request. The internal copy/move code
will now cleanly stop on cancelation, allowing the partition to be
rolled back to its previous state. This makes canceling a move
perfectly safe.
After clicking cancel, the button changes to "Force Cancel" and is
disabled for 5 seconds. Operations that are safe to cancel will do so
and those that are not will continue to run. Clicking force cancel
asks operations to cancel, even if doing so is unsafe. For the
internal copy/move algorithm, canceling is always safe because an
error results in a rollback operation. Canceling the rollback is
unsafe. For external commands, filesystem modules may indicate
that the command is safe to cancel or not. Canceled commands will
be terminated with SIGINT.
As a result of the new safe cancel vs force cancel distinction, the
scary warning about cancl causing corruption has been moved to
after clicking the force cancel button.
Part of Bug #601239 - Please allow 'Cancel after current operation'
Have the copy code create a background thread to do the actual copying so
that it won't block the main loop.
Part of Bug 685740 - Refactor to use asynchronous command execution
Win_Gparted and Dialog_Progress were creating threads to perform most
functions in the background. Most of the time, the only reason the
threads blocked was to execute an external command. The external command
execution has been changed to spawn the command asynchronously and wait
for completion with a nested main loop. While waiting for completion,
the pipe output is captured via events. In the future, this will allow
for it to be parsed in real time to obtain progress information.
Those tasks in GParted_Core that still block now spawn a background thread
and wait for it to complete with a nested main loop to avoid hanging the
gui.
Part of Bug #685740 - Refactor to use asynchronous command execution
They were used like global variables. Now they are moved to the
functions that actually use them to make clearer how the data flow is.
Bug #683149 - Cleanup(?): Remove lp_device and lp_disk from GParted_Core
Each file system class can now choose how the size and free space of the
file system is determined when it is mounted.
.fs.online_read = FS::NONE (default)
Do nothing. Don't get the file system size and free space.
.fs.online_read = FS::GPARTED
Use internal GParted method which calls statvfs() system call on
the mounted file system.
.fs.online_read = FS::EXTERNAL
Call the file system's member function set_used_sectors(). This
is the same function as called when the file system is not
mounted. It can determine if the file system is mounted or not
by testing partition.busy and acting accordingly.
This means that determining the size and free space of active LVM2
Physical Volumes is no longer a special case. Instead the lvm2_pv class
just elects to have its set_used_sectors() method called for both the
active and deactive cases.
Bug #683255 - ext2: statvfs differs from dumpe2fs (x MB unallocated
space within the partition)
When an inactive LVM2 Volume Group is exported it makes it unknown to
the local system, ready for moving the member Physical Volumes to
another system, where the VG can be imported and used. In this state a
PV can't be resized.
# lvm pvresize /dev/sda10
Volume group Test-VG1 is exported
Unable to read volume group "Test-VG1".
0 physical volume(s) resized / 1 physical volume(s) not resized
# echo $?
5
Fix this by preventing resizing of such a PV. This has been coded in a
generic way using new function filesystem_resize_disallowed() to
determine whether a file system is allowed to be resized or not. For
a file system which can be resized, but is currently not allowed to be
resized, the behaviour is as follows:
1) Pasting into unallocated space is limited to creating a new
partition which is the same size as the copied partition.
2) Resizing the partition is disallowed, only moving the partition is
allowed.
3) Pasting into an existing partition will only copy the file system.
If the destination partition is larger a warning will report that
growing the file system is not currently allowed.
4) Checking a partition will also report a warning that growing the
file system is not currently allowed.
This is exactly the same behaviour as for a file system which does not
implement resizing, except for a different warning message.
Bug #670171 - Add LVM PV read-write support
This commit only adds a remove() method to every file system and an
optional call to it in the relevant operations. All remove() methods
are no operations and not enabled.
The remove() method provides explicit controlled removal of a file
system before the partition is deleted or overwritten by being formatted
or pasted into. When implemented, it appears as an extra step in the
relevant operation. The file system specific remove() method is
explicitly allowed to fail and stop the operations currently being
applied.
This is different to the existing erase_filesystem_signatures() which
wipes any previous file system signatures immediately before a new file
system is written to ensure there is no possibility of the partition
containing two or more different file system signatures. It never fails
or reports anything to the user.
NOTE:
Most file systems should NOT implement a remove() method as it will
prevent recovery from accidental partition deletion.
Bug #670171 - Add LVM PV read-write support
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)
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
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 release of (lib)parted 3.0 includes a change to the Application
Programing Interface - API. Most importantly, libparted 3.0 removes
many file system specific function calls, and hence the capabilities
provided by these functions. In order for GParted to compile and link
with libparted 3.0, this libparted functionality is lost.
Specifically, the functionality that is lost when GParted is compiled
and linked with libparted 3.0 is as follows:
- Loss of ability to grow and shrink FAT16 and FAT32 file systems
- Loss of ability to shrink HFS and HFS+ file systems
- Loss of ability to determine used and unused sectors in HFS and
HFS+ file systems
- Loss of ability to erase file system signatures on partition
create and format
It is hoped that other free software projects will include some or all
of the above lost functionality, which can then be added back to
GParted.
This commit includes a change in how FAT16 and FAT32 file systems are
moved. Specifically the move is now performed internally by GParted
when linked with libparted 3.0. The move functionality is provided by
libparted for prior libparted versions (e.g. less than 3.0).
This is the final enhancement in a series of commits that enable
GParted to compile with libparted version 3.0.
Closes Bug #651559 - Doesn't compile against parted 3.0
This reason for refactoring is to simplify the large GParted_Core
class, to help minimize disk reads, and to group the logic for
processing the file /proc/partitions into a single logical class.
Make align to MiB the default setting instead of align to cylinder.
Migrate logic for alignment to cylinder into its own method
snap_to_cylinder, and place common logic in snap_to_alignment.
Add alignment checks for situations where space is needed for Master
Boot Record or Extended Boot Record.
Adjust ranges on spin buttons according to required boot record space.
Copy fix for off by one sector (#596552) from
Dialog_Partition_New::Get_New_Partition to
Dialog_Base_Partition::Get_New_Partition
Enhance resize / move logic for checking locations of nearby logical
partitions to not depend on the partition ordering.
Note: This commit does not include limiting graphic movement according
to required boot record space.
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.
* added support for reading volumelabels. Atm we only read ext2/3, but
the infrastructure for adding the other filesystems is in place.
It's simply a matter of finding the right commands and parsing the
output. (see #338528 for more info)
* src/Dialog_Progress.cc: make sure progressfraction stays between 0.0
and 1.0
* include/GParted_Core.h,
src/GParted_Core.cc: implemented rollback in case of failed move of
overlapping filesystems. Together with the readonly test moving
should be quite save now :)
* include/GParted_Core.h,
src/GParted_Core.cc: declared char * buf global, so it can be
initialized in copy_blocks(). This is a lot more efficient than
initializing it on every copy_block()
* include/Partition.h,
src/Partition.cc: added test_overlap()
* include/GParted_Core.h,
src/GParted_Core.cc: perform a readonly testrun before the actual
move if destination overlaps source.
* include/GParted_Core.h,
src/GParted_Core.cc: update ntfsbootsector after first sector has
changed. This is necessary to let windows boot correctly afterwards.
* src/ntfs.cc: added FIXME
* include/GParted_Core.h,
src/GParted_Core.cc: tried to fix a couple of errors with moving to
the right with overlap (thanks Larry for hunting ;) )
Although everything seems to work well i'm still not sure if
everything is 100% ok.
I guess everything could use some more testing, which is exactly
what i plan to do this weekend :)
* happy 24th birthday Johannes! :^)
* include/GParted_Core.h,
src/GParted_Core.cc: restructured resize_move() to be more robust.
This will hopefully tackle a couple of issues which came up during
the public testing.
* include/GParted_Core.h,
src/GParted_Core.cc: fixed some issues with combi move+shrink on
fat* and hfs* filesystems.
Also call wait_for_node() from commit() if 'node' was provided.
* include/GParted_Core.h,
src/GParted_Core.cc: created set_progress_info() (i actually planned
on adding some time remaining stuff, but xfiles is waiting ;) )
* include/GParted_Core.h,
src/GParted_Core.cc: did some work on disabling of automounting of
removable drives. The current method is not entirely to my liking
but it seems to work.
* implemented some stuff to find a good blocksize to use for
copy/move. Actually i'm not really happy with it, because probing
seems suboptimal, but it's better than nothing. As soon as i have
some time i should do some research on the subject to find a better
solution.
* include/FileSystem.h,
include/GParted_Core.h,
src/FileSystem.cc,
src/GParted_Core.cc,
src/ext2.cc,
src/ext3.cc,
src/ntfs.cc,
src/reiserfs.cc: removed cylindersize buffering during resize from
the filesystems. It is not needed anymore now we calculate the new
position before calling this.
Also added some extra progressfeedback in the core
* src/Win_GParted.cc: added FIXME:
* include/GParted_Core.h,
src/GParted_Core.cc,
src/fat32.cc: decoupled libparted partition and filesystemresizing.
This resulted in a much more consistent core. This also affected
several other aspects of resizing/moving in a positive way.
* include/GParted_Core.h,
src/GParted_Core.cc,
src/Win_GParted.cc: perform some checks before adding a new
operation to the list.
* src/Partition.cc: made get_length() a bit safer
* src/Win_GParted.cc,
include/GParted_Core.h,
src/GParted_Core.cc: implemented snap to cylinder algorithm.
Although the algorithm is very simple, it seems to work perfectly.
However, some additional testing is required.
Curtis Gedak