GParted News Item 102

2 May 2010: Suggested Patches for Parted 2.2

It appears that the Parted 1.9.0 through 2.2 releases have lost some capability that earlier releases (1.8.8 and earlier) possessed.

These newer Parted releases are unable to inform the kernel of partition changes if another partition is mounted, or if an active LVM partition is on the same device.
This latter case was reported in the following bug report:
Bug 608712 - GParted fails to edit/delete partitions if active LVM on same disk device

Fortunately, the parted git repository contains updates that restore this capability.

In light of this and potential problems with dmraid, Steven Shiau has kindly updated GParted Live 0.5.2-9 with the following three patches:

The above three patches improve support for DMRAID, and permit editing unmounted partitions on devices that have at least one mounted partition and/or an active LVM partition.

We recommend the above three patches be applied to parted-2.2 if you are compiling your own copy of Parted or using libparted with GParted.

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