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Bug 678290 - outdated libparted and commandline parted
outdated libparted and commandline parted
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gparted
Classification: Other
Component: livecd
0.12.1
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gparted maintainers alias
gparted maintainers alias
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-06-18 08:16 UTC by Hugh Allen
Modified: 2014-08-30 02:00 UTC
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Description Hugh Allen 2012-06-18 08:16:32 UTC 
Tested using: gparted-live-0.12.1-5.iso

It appears gparted is using libparted 2.3 (based on running it from a terminal).
Commandline parted is also version 2.3.

Note that this parted version was released on 28-May-2010 and there have been 3 more versions since then.

(I was originally going to file a bug about not detecting "loop" partition tables, but I discovered the current parted version works fine)
Comment 1 Curtis Gedak 2012-06-18 15:53:35 UTC 
Currently GParted Live is using a patched version of parted-2.3 from Ubuntu that includes many of the later enhancements to parted.

We do plan to migrate to parted 3.1 or higher, but originally held off because parted 3.0 had removed the ability to resize FAT16/32 and HFS/HFS+.

Right now we are just trying to ensure that GParted Live is stable.  There were lots of problems in the transition from parted 1.8.8 to the early 2.x series.  Consequently we are taking our time before moving to the 3.x series.
Comment 2 Curtis Gedak 2014-08-30 02:00:52 UTC 
GParted Live 0.19.1-4 was released on August 29, 2014 and includes parted/libparted 3.2-5.

Closing this bug report.