GParted News Item 122

The most significant change in this release is the ability to compile and link with libparted 3.0.

GParted retains full functionality when compiled and linked with libparted versions prior to 3.0, for example libparted-2.4.

NOTE: Because Parted 3.0 removed some file system specific functionality, the following abilities are lost or changed when GParted is compiled and linked with libparted 3.0:

• Unable to grow and shrink FAT16 and FAT32 file systems
• Unable to shrink HFS and HFS+ file systems
• Unable to determine used and unused sectors in HFS and HFS+ file systems
• Unable to erase file system signatures on partition create and format
• FAT16 and FAT32 file system moves performed internally by GParted instead of by libparted

Other key changes include:

• Fix size off by one sector with unrecognized disk label
• Fix GParted crashes with assertion (head_size <= 63)
  • Requires libparted-2.4 or higher

See the Release Notes for more details.

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