On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 8:41 AM, Heiko Becker wrote:
> if I try to build parted-3.2 with the gold linker I get the following
> error. The attached patch fixes that for me.
Thank you. I've pushed that.
The out of date copyright dates are annoying to me,
because i have a write hook that asks me if I want to
update them any time I change a file with one.
As such, I have the policy of never doing that during
any other commit (it'd introduce an unrelated diff that
would make back-porting or cherry-p
"make syntax-check" detected various minor problems.
This patch fixes them. They're all trivial, but I will wait for an ACK.
0001-maint-fix-make-syntax-check-nits.patch
Description: Binary data
FYI:
0001-maint-remove-doubled-word-s-on-on-on.patch
Description: Binary data
FYI, I've just applied this:
0001-gnulib-update-submodule-to-latest.patch
Description: Binary data
Without this patch, I would see a spurious failure in this test:
0001-tests-avoid-false-positive-failure-due-to-symlink.patch
Description: Binary data
On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Sara Walsh wrote:
> Version 1.8.9
> Assertion (cluster >=2 && cluster < fs_info->cluster_count + 2) at
> calc.c:378 in function fat_cluster_to_frag()failed.
Thanks for the report. However, parted-1.8.9 is very old, and I'm
pretty sure that bug has been fixed in
Perfect. Thanks! Marking this "done" in the bug-tracker.
Oh, and please add an item to NEWS, e.g.,
the sentence I suggested a day or two ago.
On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Phillip Susi wrote:
> +# check for expected output
> +dd if=$dev bs=1 skip=$(($sector_size_+$sector_size_+58)) count=10
> 2>/dev/null | od -An -tx1 > out || fail=1
> +echo \ 66 00 6f 00 6f 00 24 1d 00 00 >> exp
Thank you. That looks correct and is now more porta
> So I added a test and just fired off the revised patch.
Thanks for doing that!
> Running the
> test suite though, things go fubar. A bunch of tests fail with parted
> crashing with a segfault. The first one is
> t0205-gpt-list-clobbers-pmbr. The thing is, when I run the exact same
> command
> Say, if you have some time for patch reviewing these days, think you
> could take a look at the online resize patch set? They have been in
> Debian and Ubuntu now for a bit and the last gparted livecd is using
> them, so it would be nice to finally get them applied upstream and a
> new release d
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 6:25 PM, Phillip Susi wrote:
> gpt.c was simply truncating the UTF-16 characters stored
> in the partition name field to 8 bits. This corrupted non
> ascii characters which later resulted in parted crashing in
> strlist.c trying to convert the now invalid multi byte
> char
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 6:16 AM, Phillip Susi wrote:
...
> You can create one with parted after applying the patch, or with
> gdisk, and entering a unicode character in the name. Also git has no
> problem with binary files; util-linux includes several bzip2'd binary
> disk images for its test sui
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 6:05 PM, Phillip Susi wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA512
>
> On 12/19/2013 05:13 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Also, it'd be great to add a test case that fails without this
>> fix?
>
> I can create a partition ta
Oh, and since this is a bug fix, it deserves mention in NEWS.
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Phillip Susi wrote:
> gpt.c was simply truncating the UTF-16 characters stored
> in the partition name field to 8 bits. This corrupted non
> ascii characters which later resulted in parted crashing in
> strlist.c trying to convert the now invalid multi byte
> char
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Phillip Susi wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA512
>
> I find that most comments that get added this way end up being of the
> useless restating the obvious variety. In the event that some code
> isn't obvious from the general description, eit
On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 6:05 PM, Phillip Susi wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA512
>
> I see what you meant now about the comment style:
>
> *file1: add feature x
> *file2: same
> *file3: test feature x
> *file4: document feature x
>
> I don't think these kind of comments add
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Brian C. Lane wrote:
> Uhh, what the heck is up with the To: line and the subject lines? I sent
> these to the list
> address (bug-parted@gnu.org)
Hi Brian,
Sorry I didn't announce it, but I've requested that this list (like
coreutils, emacs -- and now grep, gzip
ve_mode+0x82)
> [0x40b392]
> 3: /root/parted-3.0/parted/.libs/lt-parted(main+0x1d4) [0x407be4]
> 2: /lib64/tls/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdb) [0x302af1c4bb]
> 1: /root/parted-3.0/parted/.libs/lt-parted [0x404c7a]
> Aborted (core dumped)
>
>
> 2013/8/15 Jim Meyering
&g
Phillip Susi wrote:
> It's now been over 6 months since Jim left redhat and parted
> development has stalled. I'd like to get it going again. I think I'm
> going to repost my pending patches in the next days and see if anyone
> has time to review them yet, and either way, I'd like to go ahead and
Jim Meyering wrote:
...
> Hi Hendrik,
> I have not done this, and I'll be traveling shortly, so I was going to
> say it'd take a few more weeks, apologizing for the delay, but then I
> actually checked the FSF database of recorded assignments and disclaimers
> and foun
Jim Meyering wrote:
> Hendrik Brueckner wrote:
>> Hi Jim,
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 11:10:25PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>> Hendrik Brueckner wrote:
>>> > On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 07:25:59AM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>> >> Hendrik
Hendrik Brueckner wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
> On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 11:10:25PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Hendrik Brueckner wrote:
>> > On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 07:25:59AM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> >> Hendrik Brueckner wrote:
>> >> > Hello Ji
error=suggest-attribute=format]
vsnprintf ( msg_concat, 8192, msg, arg_list );
^
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
exception.c: In function 'ped_exception_throw':
>From 1c659d5cc6830c6f4f26660e9049582afbad3fd3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
F
FYI,
>From 21be64fc6ef60a1e9dc7bc352131be58cc59d61d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 12:52:14 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] doc: 1MiB-alignment is not enough for cheap flash drives
* doc/parted.texi: Add an example that aligns to 4GiB, and
reference Arnd Bergman
Hi Richard,
Thank you.
I'll put together a commit showing that Robert Millan is the original author
and that you've revised it. Also, I'd like a test that exercises the new code,
and will try to wrap it up this weekend.
Richard Yao wrote:
> I ported ZFS support to Gentoo's parted 3.1 package fro
Luiji Maryo wrote:
> I'm Luiji, from the GNU Web Masters. We got a request to update the download
> link at /s/parted/download from 2.2 to 3.1. Before I do this, I would like to
> ask if there is any reason that it should stay that way. Is 2.2 considered the
> current stable version and 3.1 some ty
Hendrik Brueckner wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 07:25:59AM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Hendrik Brueckner wrote:
>> > Hello Jim and parted developers,
>> >
>> > this patch series introduces support for handling Fixed-Block-Access and
>> > Extende
Peter Maloney wrote:
> Forgot to include version.
>
> peter:/mnt # parted -v
> parted (GNU parted) 2.4
Thanks.
As suspected, the bug you reported has been fixed since that release.
With 3.1, you should be fine.
> Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version
Peter Maloney wrote:
...
> peter:/mnt # parted /dev/sdb unit s print
> Backtrace has 13 calls on stack:
> 13: /usr/lib64/libparted.so.0(ped_assert+0x2e) [0x7fb751212a6e]
> 12: /usr/lib64/libparted.so.0(ped_geometry_read+0x80) [0x7fb75121a1e0]
> 11: /usr/lib64/libparted.so.0(ped_geometry_read_
Eric did this in libvirt, and I liked it, so also in coreutils.
Finally, I'm updating all other C projects I tend to do the same thing:
>From d3a81337ff149294b7cf63c45a61ffa24fa542c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Blake
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:07:29 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] build: default to
gi_j...@hushmail.com wrote:
> Its part of a project.
>
> Its going to be copied to a tmpfs partition(with some other static binaries),
> and its initial source it was copied from will be overwritten. Any dynamic
> linkings and it fails.
>
> On 10/17/2012 at 3:18 PM,
Bendtsen, Jon wrote:
> On 18/10/2012, at 11.12, Jim Meyering wrote:
>
>> Bendtsen, Jon wrote:
>>
>>> On 18/10/2012, at 10.44, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>>
>>>> Bendtsen, Jon wrote:
>>>>> I here by propose that you remove the - in the middle
Bendtsen, Jon wrote:
> On 18/10/2012, at 10.44, Jim Meyering wrote:
>
>> Bendtsen, Jon wrote:
>>> I here by propose that you remove the - in the middle of any
>>> commands. The purpose is to improve the usability because having to
>>> type a - in the mid
Bendtsen, Jon wrote:
> I here by propose that you remove the - in the middle of any
> commands. The purpose is to improve the usability because having to
> type a - in the middle of a command interrupts my keyboard flow, where
> as not typing it does not.
>
> Further more there is only 1 command th
gi_j...@hushmail.com wrote:
> I am trying to build GNU parted as a static unlinked library so its portable
> with no library deps.
>
> and I am failing.
>
> best way to do this?
Why do you want that?
Can you use a gparted ISO instead?
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
8 -a ./partprobe.8.$locale.po.addendum ; \
fi ; \
done
so made the following change.
Now, in place of the above, I see only one line:
GEN partprobe.8
You can still see the gory detail by building with "make V=1".
>From 6b86774fe121d8c66343b939f146a67e5910652c Mon Sep 17 0
Hendrik Brueckner wrote:
> Hello Jim and parted developers,
>
> this patch series introduces support for handling Fixed-Block-Access and
> Extended Address Volume DASDs available for Linux on IBM System z.
>
> For more details, have a look at the patches:
>
> [PATCH 1/2] libparted: dasd: Added
Phillip Susi reported this privately:
> FAIL: help-version.sh (exit: 1)
> ===
>
> ./init.cfg: line 130: /tests/t-lib-helpers.sh: No such file or directory
Here's the fix:
>From 319e7cd590ae16460cfecb70715bf41ceec81d1e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From
g@free.fr wrote:
> - Mail original -
>> De: "Jim Meyering"
>> À: "Gilles Espinasse"
>> Cc: bug-parted@gnu.org, "petr uzel"
>> Envoyé: Samedi 6 Octobre 2012 20:35:08
>> Objet: Re: [PATCH] parted-3.1, fix t8001 not to
Gilles Espinasse wrote:
> Remove 'rmmod loop' and 'modprobe loop max_part=7' instructions
> The second command may fail after the first command have run, leaving the
> machine with no loop support.
>
> This happen on my chroot as
> - rmmod do not depend if the loop module is available,
> - modprob
Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> Hi Jim.
>
> I think I might have spotted a little typo ...
>
> On 10/06/2012 11:45 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> This root-only test had been failing for me for a while.
>> Something changed (kernel? losetup? SELinux?) about how device
>>
Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2012 11:11:32 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] tests: stop using private "dev" directory for losetup
Something about Fedora 17's losetup changed so that using a private
dev directory no longer worked. Now, simply use /dev/ dir
Bob Beers wrote:
> Hi,
>
> please consider applying attached patch.
> $ cat parted-3.1-doxcomment-rmb01.diff
> diff -purb parted-3.1-orig/libparted/disk.c parted-3.1/libparted/disk.c
> --- parted-3.1-orig/libparted/disk.c 2012-02-02 11:12:20.0 -0500
> +++ parted-3.1/libparted/disk.c 2012-10
There was significant duplication and some minor nits in the test scripts.
I've pushed this clean-up patch:
>From c987c73cbe773dfa3b14b911ffc243137195bbb3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 12:10:35 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] tests: clean up tests
Use warn_
Rod Smith wrote:
> On 09/23/2012 03:46 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>
>> Rod,
>>
>> Better late than never...
>> Here is your patch, with modifications to the log (please double
>> check it for grammar), and to the code for consistency in space-vs-TAB
>> in
I would like to release parted-3.2 in the next week or so.
Yes, there are a few known bugs (some with patches nearly ready),
and I would like to include them as soon as possible.
If you know of pending bugs and can send a rebased patch,
that would be most welcome. If you know of a bug that may no
rahul dev wrote:
...
>> Has this code caused an actual problem for you?
>
> One more question here.
> Should we allow read of gpt table in case the header size > 92 ? This
> is because if the header size has been increased, the header revision
> should also be increased. So, we should fail reading
Rod Smith wrote:
> On 03/06/2012 04:21 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Keshav P R wrote:
>>> Status of Rod's patch?
>>
>> It breaks one of the "make check" tests, and I suggested how to fix that.
>> It did not update NEWS or documentation, and it
rahul dev wrote:
> Guys,
>
>There seems to be a bug in function _header_is_valid() in file gpt.c.
>
> static int
> _header_is_valid (PedDisk const *disk, GuidPartitionTableHeader_t *gpt,
> PedSector my_lba)
> {
> uint32_t crc, origcrc;
> PedDevice const *dev = disk->dev;
>
>From 6499402a18baf22f08084acb289431b731d3afda Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 20:18:50 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] tests: mac: exercise the just-fixed bug
* tests/t0350-mac-PT-increases-sector-size.sh: New test.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
---
tests/Mak
FYI,
>From 241b55258cd2d7700e90ae90c140ccb01f726cab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 20:22:13 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] tests: avoid syntax-check failure for reversed compare args
* tests/t0203-gpt-create-on-min-sized-device.sh: Reverse args,
so that any d
Jim Meyering wrote:
> Yesterday I tried to create a gpt label on a device that was
> too small. I did see the expected failure (exit nonzero), but did
> not expect an accompanying failure: no diagnostic.
This fixes the no-diagnostic problem:
>From 7ca7f595e4cef589db852394687a6ca0
rom 81faa9b3b957781871ec3ef0df6e357388f857a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 20:34:48 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] tests: update t7000-scripting.sh to avoid new FP
* tests/t7000-scripting.sh: Use -34s as the endpoint, not -1s,
to avoid a spurious difference. Also, remove quoting artifa
FYI, two tiny patches:
>From 464c0f9ae4af8346cd494c6434f4addabdd76e9d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 17:22:52 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] maint: remove unnecessary wcslen use
* parted/strlist.c (gettext_to_wchar): Tighten up test for
mbsrtowcs failure
Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> On 08/30/2012 08:01 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> That suggests that bootstrap/gnulib-tool is sorting
>> those lines via different locales.
>>
>> Here's what I use:
>>
>> $ locale
>> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>>
Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> On 08/30/2012 07:28 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Stefano Lattarini wrote:
>>> Several minor cleanups and modernization. Some of them are good
>>> on their own, some are motivated by the will to make a future
>&g
Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> Several minor cleanups and modernization. Some of them are good
> on their own, some are motivated by the will to make a future
> support of Automake-NG easier.
>
> -*-*-*-
>
> Stefano Lattarini (11):
> build: prefer $(AM_CPPFLAGS) over $(INCLUDES)
> build: don't lis
FYI,
>From 89377f99947391c081df6dad27edf6ac3daec5c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 19:47:54 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] maint: avoid new syntax-check failure re @xref
* doc/parted.texi: Adjust @xref usage: it must be used only
at start of sentence.
*
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> I've also filed this as a debian bugreport,
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=684713
>
> Linux md raid array devices come in two flavours: partionable
> (/dev/md_d0) and non-partitionable (/dev/md0). Or at least,
> that used to be the case, until ker
Robert Stagner wrote:
> While using GNU parted version 2.3, I encountered the following message
>
> (parted) print
> Error: Invalid argument during seek for read on /dev/sdb1
> Retry/Ignore/Cancel? R
> Error: Invalid argument during seek for read on /dev/sdb1
> Retry/Ignore/Cancel? I
> Error: The b
ed all file-system probe-related code
for any sector size > 512:
commit fff559b4e987d9404a788a817630c394af89db48
Author: Jim Meyering
Date: Tue Dec 18 16:17:06 2007 +0100
disable some file-system-related probe tests for sector size > 512
These changes keep us from recognizin
clive.rothery wrote:
> When running partprobe on SLES , the following error occurs.
> As the subject says SLES 11 SP2, with a G6 server. The disks are on a cciss
> controller.
>
> Firmware version
>
> Current Firmware: 2.05 12/16/2010
>
> This is the message reported after running a fdsik then
FYI
>From 7fd33a6d24da6a82b830552999b2332140f556d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 21:52:08 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] tests: remove bogus envvar setting from t0300-dos-on-gpt.sh
* tests/t0300-dos-on-gpt.sh: Remove envvar setting that effectively
disabled test
Andreas Oberritter wrote:
> Initialize (version-)prefix to prevent inheritance from
> the build environment during autoreconf.
>
> | sed: -e expression #1, char 9: unknown option to `s'
> | configure.ac:55: error: AC_INIT should be called with package and
> | version arguments
> | aclocal.m4:594:
Gilles wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:31:24 +0100, Gilles
> wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:15:46 +0100, Jim Meyering
>>wrote:
>>>Then you want two primary partitions, and you already know
>>>their types and starting and ending sector numbers, so do
Gilles wrote:
> (This is not a bug, but rather a user question. I had to subscribe to
> the bug@ mailing-list as there doesn't seem to be a user@ list that
> would have been more appropriate.)
This list is a fine place for questions.
> After playing with a test host, I need to recreate /dev/sda1
Keshav P R wrote:
> Status of Rod's patch?
It breaks one of the "make check" tests, and I suggested how to fix that.
It did not update NEWS or documentation, and it did not add any
test case of its own.
> I suggest a similar "linuxdata" flag to set a partitoon as Linux Data
> type irrespectiv
Rod Smith wrote:
> On 02/18/2012 12:00 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>
>> A release is overdue, so in the hopes of accelerating the process,
>> here is a snapshot.
>
> I note that this snapshot doesn't include my Linux-specific GPT
> partition type code patch, whic
est for GPT PMBR pmbr_boot flag
doc: update parted documentation
Christoph Hellwig (1):
tests: add FS-resize test driver
H. Peter Anvin (1):
libparted: simplify kernel version-parsing logic
Jim Meyering (90):
post-release administrivia
libparted: accommodate
FYI...
And remove some cruft:
>From 4e6ad5461660c1dc3d97a0d76e7dabea0aebd26f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 12:29:04 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] lib-fs-resize: remove unused probe-related code
* libparted/fs/r/hfs/probe.c: Remove probe-related functions.
Th
Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Feb 27, 2012, at 3:40 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for all the detail.
>> FYI, I was able to reduce your abort-provoking 620MB image to a tiny
>> 4KiB compressed tarball ;-) and attached it to this RHEL bug report:
>&g
Chris Murphy wrote:
...
> Regressions, detail:
>
> 1. Clean 10.7.0 install, crash does not occur.
>
> a. Zero'd the first 80GB of the target disk.
> b. Installed 10.7.0, which produces three partitions: EFI fat32, Mac
> OS hfsx, Apple Boot hfs+.
> c. Attempted to install CentOS 6.2. It proceeded pa
Peter Maloney wrote:
> Problem:
>
> I tried to print the partition table of the first disk in a raid0 set
> (using the raw disk rather than a RAID device), expecting the partitions
> to be displayed with the partition outside the disk, but instead parted
> refuses to work:
>
> # parted -s /dev/sdd
Chris Murphy wrote:
> was: parted 2.1 crash with (encrypted) Apple Core Storage partition
>
>
> On Feb 9, 2012, at 1:45 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
>
>>
>> On Feb 9, 2012, at 1:39 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 565M is the fin
= disk->dev->sector_size /
>512);
708 found = 1;
709 break;
710 }
711 }
712 free (buf);
(gdb) p i
$1 = 4
(gdb) p disk->dev->sector_size
$2 = 1024
Here's the fix:
>From 4559c510f02a69
FYI,
>From 187e7cba48094505f00532698dfb04ab40575231 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 11:16:54 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] doc: improve NEWS
* NEWS: Expand/adjust wording in two entries.
---
NEWS | 13 -
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deleti
Bruno Haible wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>> The sole failure seems to be due to mkswap failing on your system.
>> However, the code that is failing redirects stderr and stdout
>> to /dev/null, so there is no clue in the log.
>>
>> I confirmed that it works on ope
Mike Cooper wrote:
> The "parted -m print" output is quite useful but it lacks the
> ability to specify an option to control the units which are displayed.
> The attached source diff for parted 3.0 adds a new command line option
> --unit compact|sector|byte|cylinder|chs' which provides the desired
Bruno Haible wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>> http://meyering.net/parted/parted-3.0.136-1f80.tar.xz
...
> Linux (openSUSE 12.1):
...
> ===
>GNU parted 3.0.136-1f80: te
assertion
parted: when printing, also print the new disk flags
tests: update tests for new disk flags output
tests: add test for GPT PMBR pmbr_boot flag
doc: update parted documentation
Christoph Hellwig (1):
tests: add FS-resize test driver
H. Peter Anvin (1):
I've just noticed that a non-srcdir build was failing.
I introduced that with the FAT/HFS FS-resize restoration.
Here's the fix:
>From 763c1cf287d2b264eb5c988e52ffd32ded594e42 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:40:49 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] bui
"make distcheck" has been failing for anyone who runs the root-only
tests, due to a losing fsck.hfs. Work around it:
>From 48977ba4804fe73562f113f9678465a516449153 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:24:37 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] tests: skip f
Curtis Gedak wrote:
> On 12-02-06 04:05 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>>> parted provides a new library, libparted-fs-resize, for resizing
>>>> HFS+ and FAT file systems. This is the subset of the FS-manipulation
>>>> functionality removed in par
Chris Murphy wrote:
> OK, I'm bailing on the debugging because parted-debuginfo isn't signed
> and won't install. :-\
If the lack of a signature is the only problem, running
debuginfo-install with its --nogpgcheck option should work.
> On Feb 8, 2012, at 1:20 PM, Jim Me
Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Feb 8, 2012, at 11:43 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
>> On Feb 8, 2012, at 11:34 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>>
>>> If it makes CentOS6.2's parted abort, then I will be happy to work on
>>> it. Can you install debug symbols and invoke pa
Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Feb 8, 2012, at 10:44 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> You're right that I may be able to reproduce simply with one
>> of those encrypted partitions. Can you create a minimal one and send it?
>
>
> I made a small one on a boot stick, moved it to a
Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Feb 8, 2012, at 1:59 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>
>> Now that I think of it, I'll bet this is an instance of that wrapped
>> partition. You've probably triggered an excursion into libparted code
>> that is rarely used, to handle that
Chris Murphy wrote:
> Since I'm unable to get past the crash to install CentOS, I don't have
> a way to install debug symbols, since I'm booted off install media.
>
> Perhaps an easier way to test this is if I could dd the first XX MB of
> the suspected (encrypted) partition, to an image file (as a
Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Feb 8, 2012, at 12:27 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
>>
>> text output trying to run "parted -l", booted from CentOS 6.2 LiveDVD:
>> [centoslive@livedvd ~]$ su
>> [root@livedvd centoslive]# parted -l
>> Backtrace has 14 calls on stack:
>> 14: /lib64/libparted-2.1.so.0(ped_assert
Chris Murphy wrote:
> Summary: An Apple laptop containing a single drive, GPT, with 8
> partitions, booting CentOS 6.0, anaconda crashes with a backtrace
> implicating libparted. Running "parted -l" results in a crash as
> well. This did not happen prior to the creation of a core storage*
> partiti
the device.
Here's the fix:
>From 905811b14ae10a0d292b9da58469ff788e1cdd73 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 15:00:53 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] libparted: gpt: avoid heap-read-overrun when rewriting
9-PTE table
Now that parted can rewrite a corrupt-or-mi
Curtis Gedak wrote:
> On 12-02-03 02:46 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> From NEWS:
>>
>> parted provides a new library, libparted-fs-resize, for resizing
>> HFS+ and FAT file systems. This is the subset of the FS-manipulation
>> functionality removed in p
From: Jim Meyering
---
libparted/fs/Makefile.am | 16 --
libparted/fs/r/hfs/DOC | 92 ---
libparted/fs/r/hfs/HISTORY | 115
libparted/fs/r/hfs/TODO| 27 --
4 files changed, 11 insertions
From: Christoph Hellwig
* tests/fs-resize.c: New file, to test FAT/HFS resizing.
---
tests/fs-resize.c | 76 +
1 files changed, 76 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 tests/fs-resize.c
diff --git a/tests/fs-resize.c b/tests/fs-
From: Jim Meyering
* tests/t3000-resize-fs.sh: New test.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
(check_PROGRAMS): Add fs-resize.
(fs_resize_LDADD): Define, so it links with both libraries.
---
tests/Makefile.am|7 +++-
tests/t3000-resize-fs.sh | 112
From: Jim Meyering
Before, it would probe for an existing file system type and then,
according to what it found, call the corresponding _clobber
function. Now that we have restored only HFS and FAT FS-writing
support, only those few types have a corresponding _clobber function.
We would
From: Jim Meyering
* NEWS (New features): Mention it.
---
NEWS | 10 ++
1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 0bfcf6a..2793ce4 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -8,6 +8,16 @@ GNU parted NEWS-*- outline
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