GParted News

The GParted team is proud to announce a well-tested, stable release of GParted Live.

This release includes another critical bug fix for a potential crash that might cause loss of data while moving or copying a partition. We strongly recommend that all users of GParted Live 0.15.0-x and 0.16.0-x upgrade to GParted Live 0.16.1-1 to avoid data loss.

Items of note include:

• Avoid another crash in GParted when moving or copying partitions
• Based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2013/May/1)

In an effort to ensure the reliability and integrity of this release, we have conducted over 200 successful tests. These tests included moves, copies, creates, labels, new UUIDs, growing, shrinking, and deleting partitions containing each type of file system.

Special thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood, Phillip Susi, and Steven Shiau for their timely efforts to create this stable release.

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In an effort to ensure the reliability and integrity of GParted, this release has undergone more intensive reviews and additional testing on multiple GNU/Linux distributions.

This release includes another critical bug fix for a potential crash that might cause loss of data while moving or copying a partition. We strongly recommend that all users of GParted 0.15.0 and 0.16.0 upgrade to GParted 0.16.1 to avoid data loss.

Key changes include:

• Avoid another crash in GParted when moving or copying partitions
• Fix GParted doesn't compile on RHEL / CentOS 5.9

See the Release Notes for more details.

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Since the release of GParted 0.16.0, we have discovered another potential issue with timing and multiple threads. This issue appears to occur on older GNU/Linux distributions. In fact the issue was not apparent in our testing of GParted 0.16.0 on recent distros.

For more details see Bug 695279 - GParted doesn't compile on RHEL / CentOS 5.9.

As a precaution we plan to keep GParted Live 0.16.0-1 in the testing directory while we work towards a fix for this newly identified issue.

Until this problem is resolved we continue to advise using the last stable release of GParted Live, which is GParted Live 0.14.1-6.

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This release of GParted includes a critical bug fix for a crash that might cause loss of data while moving or copying a partition. We strongly recommend that all users of GParted 0.15.0 upgrade to GParted 0.16.0 to avoid data loss. Also included are bug fixes, enhancements and language translation updates.

Key changes include:

• Avoid crash in GParted when moving or copying partitions
• Fix GParted scans forever blank disk in virtual machine
• Add support for f2fs file system

See the Release Notes for more details.

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We are investigating reports of intermittent crashes with GParted 0.15.0.
See Bug 697727 - Segfault in livecd Gparted v 0.15.0-3 when copying partition.

The risk of LOSS of DATA is highest when performing partition moves, resizes, copies, and checks. As such we recommend using GParted 0.14.1 for all move, resize, copy, and check operations.

Other operations such as create, delete, format, label, set UUID, and delete might also crash, but these should not result in unexpected data loss, and the operation can be repeated.

Until this problem is resolved we advise using the last stable release of GParted Live, which is GParted Live 0.14.1-6.

We highly recommend that you BACKUP your DATA before using any partitioning tool.

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The GParted team is proud to announce another stable release of GParted Live.

This is a bug fix release to address a few minor problems.

Items of note include:

• The GParted Live ISO file is now an isohbrid.
  This means it can be written as an image to CD, or written directly to USB flash drive using a command such as dd.
• The fluxbox menu key function now works again
• Linux kernel updated to 3.2.41-1
• Based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2013/Mar/27)

Thanks goes to Steven Shiau for creating this GParted Live image.

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

The biggest change with this release comes from enhancements to GParted that track live updates of command execution progress in the details section of the apply operations window.

Other items of note include:

• Move operations are twice as fast as prior versions
• Proper cancel support has been added
• Volume label length is now based on file system type
• Unallocated space is selected by default
• Linux kernel updated to 3.2.39-2
• Based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2013/Mar/20)

Thanks goes to Steven Shiau for creating this enhanced live image.

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