Previously used "dmsetup info" to directly list device-mapper mapping
names in the kernel to identify active Logical Volumes. However GParted
failed to recognise active LVs if the VGNAME contains any hyphens (-).
This is because LVM encodes hyphens as double hyphens in the mapping
name.
To avoid having to duplicate the LVM hyphen encoding in GParted, switch
to using "lvm lvs" to list LVs.
# dmsetup info --columns --noheadings --separator , -o name
GParted_VG1-lvol_00
GParted--VG2-lvol--00
# lvm lvs --noheadings --separator , -o lv_name,vg_name,lv_attr
lvol_00,GParted_VG1,-wi-a-
lvol-00,GParted-VG2,-wi-a-
lvol-01,GParted-VG3,-wi---
.^.
(-) not active, (a) or any other character considered active. Reference
lvs(8).
Bug #160787 - lvm support
As the Mount Point column is being borrowed to display the PV's VGNAME,
also suppress generation of the "Mount on" submenu for LVM2 PVs.
Bug #160787 - lvm support
Previously when GParted was started LVM2_PV_Info cache was loaded twice,
executing LVM2 PV querying commands twice. Firstly when
lvm2_pv::get_filesystem_support() was checking if LVM2 PV support was
available, and secondly when forced by a refresh in
GParted_Core::set_devices().
Implement lazy initialization. Only load the cache when forced by the
above mentioned refresh or having to return a value when the cache is
not yet loaded. Do not initialize the cache when just checking if LVM2
PV support is available.
Bug #160787 - lvm support
Cache results from querying all LVM2 PVs in one go to minimise the
number of times lvm commands are executed. Take inspiration from
caching performed by FS_Info and Proc_Partitions_Info.
Bug #160787 - lvm support
Add minimal support for just reporting the space usage of LVM2 PVs.
Accept libparted / blkid detection of LVM2 PVs first, falling back on
GParted's specific detection code otherwise. Maintain LVM not supported
warning message.
Bug #160787 - lvm support
This is the first step of adding support for just LVM2 Phyiscal Volumes,
a subset of full LVM2 support.
Make it clear that it is only LVM2 PVs being treated like a file system.
Bug #160787 - lvm support
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
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.
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 a new operation is added to operations list, check if a merge
is possible depending on the operation type:
OPERATION_RESIZE_MOVE: 2 consecutive "resize" operations on the
same partition
OPERATION_LABEL_PARTITION: 2 "label change" operations (need not be
consecutive) on the same partition
OPERATION_CHECK: 2 "check" operations (need not be
consecutive) on the same partition
OPERATION_FORMAT: 2 consecutive "format" operations on the
same partition
Closes Bug #438573 - Cancel out overlapping actions
Also fix a bug when copying partition using the Partition::Set(...)
method. This method did not initialize "sectors_used" and
"sectors_unused" members.
Some classes contained private attributes which were used only by a single
member function. Such items were moved to the corresponding function implementations
to stress their limited usage scope.
A few unused variables were also deleted.
Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
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
Usage of the kpartx package to create partition names has been
completely removed. Hence kpartx is no longer even an optionally used
package by gparted.
This change is related to the following bug report:
Ubuntu launchpad bug 719129 - [Natty] Gparted duplicates dmraid
partition devices
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gparted/+bug/719129
The 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.
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.
This adds initial handlers for Btrfs; only .create, .check and
.read_label are done for now, via external btrfs-tools.
Other methods are still only stubs.
Newer versions (dmraid-1.0.0-rc16?) of dmraid default to always
creating partition names by inserting the letter 'p' between the
device name and the partition number. Since this is not
consistent with older versions of dmraid, add extra logic to
ensure that newer versions of dmraid do not insert this extra
letter 'p'.
Rename method get_udev_name to get_udev_dm_name and enhance to
retrieve the property DM_NAME.
Handle situation where parted, and hence libparted, has been
configured with --disable-device-mapper. In this situation on
some distros the device name could be /dev/dm-0. This results in
invalid partition names such as /dev/dm-0p1. Add logic to decode
the actual /dev/mapper name.
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.
Also add signal handler to alignment menu to update file system
minimum size.
This enhancement is to prepare for adding a third alignment
option to align to MiB.
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.