GParted News Item 202

The GParted team is pleased to announce a new stable release of GParted Live.

This release includes GParted 0.26.1, patches for libparted for FAT file system operations, and other improvements.

Items of note include:

• Based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2016/Jun/14)
• Linux kernel updated to 4.6.1-1
• Includes GParted 0.26.1 which:
  • Ensure boot loaders work on ext4 < 16 TiB by using 32bit feature
  • Fix core dump crash in OperationDelete::get_partition_new()
• Includes patched version of libparted which fixes:
  • check FAT32 crashes (bug 762448)
  • resized FAT32 not recognized by Windows (bug 759916)
• Includes official e2fsprogs 1.43 release (bug 766693)

This release of GParted Live has been successfully tested on VirtualBox, VMware, BIOS, UEFI, and physical computers with AMD/ATI, NVidia, and Intel graphics.

NOTE: VirtualBox workarounds: To boot in BIOS mode choose GParted Live "KMS mode", and to fix window manager issues right-click desktop and choose "fluxbox menu -> Restart". See Bug 761343 - GParted LiveCD won't start on VirtualBox... except with EFI enabled.

Curtis