GParted News

• Hardware RAID
• Motherboard BIOS RAID (also known as Fake RAID - dmraid)
• Linux Software RAID (mdadm)

• Add auto detection of Linux software RAID devices
• Re-enable ability to paste into an existing partition
• Ensure parted-1.9.0 is patched if using with GParted

• Ensure no pending operations before creating partition table
• Improve dmraid device and name recognition
• Add support for devicekit-disks device automount prevention
• Fix problem finding symbolic link device mount points

• Fixed new partition creation size off by one sector
• Improved recognition of dmraid devices

• Removed requirement for xxd for ntfs move or paste action
• Enhanced for new linux-swap "filesystem" types from parted-1.9.0

• Improved crypt-luks detection
• Improved dmraid device detection

• Added support for /dev/mapper dmraid devices
• Added recognition of /dev/mmcblk* SD/MMC devices
• Enhanced resize/move to only move start if space before changed

• Newer GParted (0.4.3)
• Based on stable Debian Lenny
• Newer kernel 2.6.26-13 is used

• Corrected name of lock taken by hal-lock
  (The lock is needed to prevent automounting of file systems)
• Fixed crash on startup with some languages

• Added support for ext4 file system
  • Support for ext4 is built into version 2.6.28 of the Linux kernel
  • e2fsprogs version 1.41.0 or higher required
• Created application help manual
• Updated gparted manual page
• Made text beside field labels selectable (i.e., copy/paste UUID)
• Added lvm2 physical volume detection
• Reduced file system information disk reads to improve performance
• Fixed application crash when saving details and locale not set
• Enhanced copy/paste checks when MBR/EBR involved

• Newer GParted (0.4.1)
• Newer kernel 2.6.26-12 is used

• Improved read label performance with blkid cached results
• Added read UUID support
• Enforced FAT16/32 compliant volume labels (11 char max)
• Fixed destination too small on copy and paste partition
• Added status bar message updates while scanning devices
• Moved Features entry from menu GParted to View
• Renamed Features dialog to File System Support
• Prevented paste into an existing partition
• Added --disable-doc configure flag to stop building help docs

• Newer GParted (0.3.9)
• Newer kernel 2.6.26-5 is used
• Package hfsprogs was added
• Better support for PXE booting

• Reduced time to move or copy partitions
• Added ability to create and check hfs+ file systems

• Corrected errors in "Round to cylinders" boundary math
• Added "Round to cylinders" check box for copy and move/resize
• Enhanced to parse devices from /proc/partitions if file exists
• Fixed problem with command line devices being ignored
• Removed absolute requirement for hal-lock

• Fixed bug for partition sizes greater than or equal to 1 TeraByte
• Created gparted manual page
• Implemented hal-lock to prevent gnome automounting of partitions

• mtools required to read and write fat16 and fat32 labels.
• vol_id command required to read linux-swap labels.

This release is the first one from a new set of project maintainers (Laurent de Trogoff, and Curtis Gedak). The release includes changes from the unofficial 0.3.4 release as well as bug fixes, and language translations.

One key bug fix is that gparted no longer crashes when a device list refresh is performed.

*Many Thanks* go to Bart Hakvoort.
Without Bart's work, there would be no GParted.

See the Release Notes for more details.

Curtis

After he created and maintained the GParted project, Bart (plors)
lastely took the decision to let his project in other hands.
Curtis and I are now working on the project.
As C++ dev, Curtis should be able to update and upgrade GParted,
from day to day, and I will do my best to give him help.

Because we do not have full access to the svn.gnome at the moment,
we decided to set the Gparted SVN in SF.


Be happy : we should release 0.3.5 before a long time :)

Larry

I am happy to announce you a new C++ dev has reached the Gparted team !
Curtis G. from Alberta (Canada), contacted me a couple of weeks
to work on the project.
After one year without any changes, we plane to enable some new features,
like label creation, ext4 support, and maybe other tips. One of our goals will
be to fix bugs too of course...
The real work will begin in about two months or so.
The official site may be unavialable during some days for technical reasons.

If someone is interested by setting an offical livecd for gparted,
we will consider any project. If nobody comes, no livecd comes neither.

Larry

See this page, for details.

Larry

See this home page, for details.

Larry

See this home page, for details.

Larry

After I took advice from some people, espacially from JanC which maitains our forum,
a GParted-livecd web site has been created on Tuxfamily.
See here.

I needed "write" access to add new users who would like to work on the project.
Since it is not possible to contact Bart (the "father" of the GParted project),
I needed to take a decision. This is done.
Another possibility was to request the *same* project on SF,
but that meant I would push out of the project Bart Hakvoort,
what I could not intend to make !
If Bart Hakvoort ever comes back, he will take the end-decision.
If he will not come back, we may continue working on the project by this way !

Only the news page will be updated here,
and I think I will continue to use SF to upload release.

Larry

The Gparted-Clonezilla project now exists and is hosting on the Tuxfamily servers !

It is at : GParted-Clonezilla-livecd.

Larry

Like I said few days ago, here is the new release of our livecd.
Many packages have been updated, but no bugs have been directly fixed,
because I really have no time for this work, unfortunatly.
Updates might have fixed bugs :-p !
Kernel is now 2.6.22-9.
See changelog for details.

MD5SUM : 69e7d83bd5a94f93331c87169618ad44

If you are interesting with hacking gparted on C++, let me know !

Be happy : GParted-livecd is not dead :-) !
Best wishes.

Larry

We are still looking for a NEW GParted-LiveCD Maintainer, but we didn't find anyone !
That's the reason why I decided to try to release gparted-livecd by myself, in a couple of days.
I have no time to work on bugs, and I am not able to make any change to gparted, because I don't even no one word of C++.
If you are interesting with hacking gparted on C++, let me know !

So, a new release of the livecd is coming, soon :-p
Larry

Dear you all,
It is about 6 months since I carried on maintaining the GParted-LiveCD,
and I tried to do my best to built and update it. Unfortunalty, I have
definitly no time left to to continue this work !
Some of you may know that I am a catholic monk, and my life
let me very few time for this interesting but delicate work.
Either I find a new live maintainer, either no release will be done before ages.

Anyway users may use the Parted Magic livecd built by Patrick Werner who maintained
the first GParted livecd (See Parted Magic Site for more details.

As a consequence, bugs won't be fixed either.

Thanks to Dennis German, a new wiki doc is online. See Wiki Doc.

My best regards to all of you who gave me time or tips to fix that and that.
I really appreciated it.
Best wishes to all :)
Larry

In this last release, I tried to fix some bugs about i810 video.
Calculator has been requested, so I added "bc", a command line calculator,
whitch may be launched from within a terminal.
We are running kernel 2.6.21

See changelog for more details.

GParted-Clonezilla livecd 2.0 has been released
It is based on both GParted-0.3.4-8 and CLonezilla-1.0.3-18,
and is available here.
See details.

Larry

Since Gentoo-livecd has been released, our livecd is now based on gentoo-2007.0.
You will find some new boot options too.

See changelog for details.


GParted-Clonezilla livecd 1.9 has been released
It is based on both GParted-0.3.4-7 and CLonezilla-1.0.2-5,
and is available here.
See details.

Larry

Before I release gparted-0.3.4-7, I make some tests with beta-versions.
If you think you can test those beta-version, go ahead !

BETA-iso can be found here.
Bugs or suggestions for those releases should be reported at : tblksa at users dot sf dot net
Thanks !

Larry

Best compression (final iso is 45MO), last xorg 7.2 and
some new GRUB options like "macbook", new scripts to set usb
stick to boot off usb. Kernel update...

MD5SUM : faf4b410ecb2f504cd077648e79c7d92
See changelog for details.

GParted-Clonezilla livecd has also been released to 1.8 !
See details here.

Larry

See details here.


Larry

-Since gparted compiled against parted > 1.7.1, is unable to perform any move,
we needed to revert back to parted-1.7.1 !
-Ms-sys, syslinux and lcdproc have been added, and some error configuration
and messages fixed.

MD5SUM : fc13798c94029bf7fe7ad5342a21d443
See changelog for details.


Larry

If you are interesting with shrinking VISTA, you must know GParted is able to shrink Vista.
I have successfully performed this operation on two different machines !

It is also possible to use GParted to move Vista partition, but you need Vista cd-dvd, to repair Vista Boot Manager.
Some details are available here.
I also summarized the steps in a kind of howto.

Note that there is a built-in tool in Vista to shrink your partition, not to move (afaik).


Larry

- Parted-1.8.6 included !
- ADAPTEC I20 enable in kernel [Bug 420288]
- scandelay=6 option added in grub parameters so the system
can load modules (usb external drive)[Bug 419267].

MD5SUM : 3f3cf59a05c27b98626b1fe02d865a71
See changelog for details.

This is also a good occasion to announce you GParted-Clonezilla livecd is born
some days ago. This livecd marries both GParted-livecd and Clonezilla-livecd
which is the best free backup tool ever done.
See details there.

Larry

The most important change is that the media now boots off
the powerful GRUB boot loader ! Some new boot options have been set.
"Logout" is now available from shutdown-menu, to kill X, if needed.
Media boots with No Frame Buffer by default, but option is still available.

MD5SUM : 50dbb0d4648c3e5e575e412b27d2f921
See changelog for details.

Larry

All available video drivers have been added.
Some bugs have been fixed : "media not found" during usb boot off ;
error messages when shutting down (/dev/nbdx).
Floppy driver has been set to "m" in the kernel, which avoids GParted to run
over and over when there is no floppy device.

MD5SUM : 489aafaa9e742d72fd89224896272d6d
See changelog for details.

Larry

- Error messages at shutdown about /dev/ndb : FIXED
- Submenu shoed out of the screen : FIXED
- Video drivers added : neoamgic, savage, s3virge, trident
- Fixed syslinux.cfg : failed to find device when booting off USB

Download from here. MD5SUM 69a664c201cbdf35d056c14ce15c930c

Larry

The kernel configuration file is more improved (2.6.20).
A new script "Forcevideo" allows users to set video and resolution
if X failed to start.

MD5SUM : 396e4e65035b8ad3cd32c69c3df4dd64
See changelog for a complete list of packages.

Larry

A new beta has been released.
Kernel config modified : new drivers have been set to "modules" (=m).
This should fix some issues (hang at boot) It can be found there.
Larry

GParted-livecd has been released ! It now includes gparted-0.3.4 from svn,
and new feature : it is possible to see the full list of packages,
kernel configuration file, and some notes about Windows resizing (XP and Vista).
A bug with Testdisk which failed in previous version, has been fixed.

Larry

Major change with switching to Fluxbox as graphical mode.
Some bugs fixed and features added (Virtualbox video driver).

Hang at shutdown has been fixed by coming back to old version of baselayout.
Virtualbox can now boot off the iso, by typing at prompt "vesa",
which force vesa driver to be set in xorg.
Some icons have been added.

Looks good !

Larry

Some minor changes : Video drivers has been added, so all kind of known video are supported.

Larry

After one month and a half for testing and testing, we are happy to announce you GParted-livecd has been released.
The livecd is now based on gentoo-catalyst, and all files are available from svn.
Kernel 2.6.20. About ten more languages are supported.
Midnight Commander has been added, and packages updated.

Larry

fixed a bug introduced by 0.3.2, thanks go to Glauco for pointing this out.

See the Changelog for more details.

plors

Just another release of GParted.
We added two new features, fixed some bugs and received lots of translation updates and additions.

See the Changelog for more details.

plors

Getting free space from partition tip has been added to the documentation
Some users seem to have problem to increase partition when free space is not contiguous !
So i decided to add this tip, to make it easier.

Larry

Resizing partitions with GParted Doc have been increased with a new title :
"how to resize extended partition".
See the complete doc
English docs only have been updated !

Larry

This release is mostly a response on the feedback i got from users on GParted 0.3.
In case of an overlapping move (which in case of failure may cause damage to a filesystem) GParted now performs a readonly testrun. Also, if a move failes GParted will rollback the transactions and hence insure the safety of your data.

See the Changelog for more details.

plors

This version has some minor improvements. Nothing I can say here can top full
move support in GParted, so I won't bore you with too many details. The coolest
things are the new artwork by Junel Mujar and it's now possible to boot from a
hard drive. The hw_random crash has also been fixed.

See the Changelog for details.

It took a bit longer than expected, but finally we decided to release GParted-0.3.
This release includes one of the most exiting features since the first release;
We finally have full move support!! Although it should be considered a bit experimental, our tests worked out perfectly and we didn't see any errors so far.

Special thanks for this release go to:
JanC, for the initial idea on how to implement moving.
Brother Larry, for the enormous amount of time he put into testing and bughunting.
Please send flowers and cake to these guys ;^)

Ok, have fun, be carefull and report bugs :)

See the Changelog for more details.

plors

Minor update to fix some problems in the new video card detection. Some cards were given the wrong driver and starting X was not possible without manually editing the xorg.conf file. If X fails to start use the "manual video card" option in the boot menu. This reverts the system back to the behavior of 0.2.5-3 for video card selecting.

A screen shot program for reporting bugs was added.

The "Boot failure: Unknown keyword in config file" is fixed.

See the Changelog for details.

Patrick

Many bug fixes and new features. Too many to list here. :-)
See the Changelog for details.

Patrick

Thanks to JanC we finally have some decent forums. Sign up and join the fun here

Also, we are still looking for a couple of moderators, so let us know if you are interested in this job.

plors

Yep, i'm still alive and working on GParted :^) My life is quite filled at the moment with study and work, but every now and then i manage to work a bit on GParted. Release 0.3 is not that far away and it includes a VERY nice feature: moving of all filesystems *drumroll here* :-)

This is something i've been willing to add to GParted for a long time and in the end it proved very simple. Credits for the idea go to JanC (please drop by on IRC to thank him ;) ).

In the meanwhile Patrick has been busy with the live environments and from the responses we get i can only conclude he is doing an extremely good job!

LarryT en Karderio are working on the docs and among other things they are preparing them for usage by the gnome help browser (Yelp). If everything goes as planned we can also include this in 0.3.
Having good documention is very important, especially now more and more relatively unexperienced users are using GParted.

Apart from this we are deploying a new forum in the hope to become more in touch with our users. It seems not everyone feels comfortable with bugzilla and IRC.

All in all, nothing but good news, please stay tuned for GParted-0.3 :-)

plors

I added some goodies people have been asking for: partimage,
grub, rsync, fdisk, cfdisk, and sfdisk. Links has also been
included to view LarryT's docs while running the LiveCD and
LiveUSB. Some other stuff was upgraded like adding a
shutdown-menu and the entire layout of the root filesystem.
All of the symbolic links and /fake/needwrite stuff is now
gone. The entire rootfs is compressed with squashfs and the
boot process has been vastly changed. This saved almost 5mb
to add extras. The kernel was also updated to Linux-2.6.17.4.

See the Changelog for details.

Patrick

ntfsprogs-1.13.1 is the main reason for this release.
Be sure to check out the new USB version too. :)

See the Changelog for details.

Patrick

I think this might be the best version of the livecd released so far. Many
issues have been fixed and I spent some time making it look better.
Junel Mujar made a very cool wallpaper for the desktop.

See the Changelog for details.

Patrick

Although it looks the same... It's a total rebuild from ground up. The new
CD is based on Slackware Current with some rebuilt and added packages.
The source for the CD is now located in /usr/src.

See the Changelog for details.

Patrick

Just another small release. It adds support for operations
on hfs, hfs+ and reiser4 filesystems and contains some language updates.

See the Changelog for more details.

Another minor release to take care of some small problems.
See the Changelog for details.

Patrick

Added, changed, and fixed some major stuff in this release.
See the Changelog for details.

Patrick

Xvesa has been replaced with Xorg. Please report bugs!

Patrick

Yet another release of gparted. This release introduces the ability to set/unset flags
and fixes a couple of issues.

See the Changelog for more details.

This release contains lots of (small) fixes and improvements.
I also rewrote some internals to deal with a couple of long-standing issues.

Nothing really fancy, but worth the upgrade ;-)

Some more major work under the hood.

Fixed some bugs in the new udev set-up.
Cleaned-up Fluxbox a little bit.
Added some more options to Xvesa.
Removed some more unused scripts and files.
Recompiled all programs with better optimizations.
Recompiled most libs to remove static libraries.
The new iso is only 22.5 MB!

Upgraded to: atk-1.10.3, glib-2.8.6, glibmm-2.8.4, glitz-0.5.3, gtk+-2.8.12,
gtkmm-2.8.3, libsigc++-2.0.17, pango-1.10.3, freetype-2.1.10,
syslinux-3.20-pre7, squashfs3.0, expat-1.95.8, libusb-0.1.12,
Linux-2.6.15.5, jfsutils-1.1.10

Patrick

Minor update.

8 and 16 color depth are working again.
Rebuilt glibc to save space. The new ISO is only 25.8mb.

Patrick

Hmmz, it seems everything's restored. I was able to dig most of the stuff up from googlecache (thanks Jan GONDOL!).
Because i'm too lazy to restore the newsentries (they live in a separate textfile) some news will be missing, but i don't think anyone is going to miss it :)

In case anyone wonders what's going on.. I've just overwritten our website with an old backup and don't have any recent backups :/
Hopefully the SF guys can help me out, otherwise i'll have a lot of catching up to do.

BLAH!

It certainly has been a long time since the last release. All of a sudden i got caught up in 'real life' and couldn't find the time to work on gparted anymore.
It happens i suppose...

Anyway, gparted-0.0.9 contains lots of fixes, a few new features and tons of updated/new translations. See the Changelog for more information

I'm back in the Netherlands and the next few months i'm a free man (hopefully).
This means i should have plenty of time to work on GParted.
After looking into bugzilla i plan on releasing gparted-0.0.9 which has been in CVS far too long.
Once that's done i'll look into support for RAID and LVM.

Stay tuned ;-)

Judging from the load of mail i get, a lot of people are very concerned about my well-being. Thanks folks, i'm touched :P

To answer the one question on your minds: i'm neither dead nor sick and so is GParted. I'm on a studytrip for 4 months and i simply have very little time to work on GParted.

As soon as i'm back in Holland (june/july) i'll start working on it again. In the meanwhile you can try gparted-0.0.9pre2 if you want.
enjoy :)

GParted-0.0.8 includes support for three new filesystems. Besides that a couple of bugs got fixed and some extra checking is done while performing an operation.

See the featurestable and the Changelog for more information.

Vincent just send me a new debian package for gparted and forced me to announce "it works on pure unstable" (whatever that may be :^) )

Get it from the ususal location.

gparted-0.0.7 is finally here. It took some time, because i had to rewrite a lot of code. Every filesystem now has its own class and is responsible for its own creation, resizing etc.. This makes it very easy to add more filesystems to gparted and that's what we all want :)

Because the ext2/3 code of libparted was slightly outdated and sometimes caused trouble, gparted now uses the e2fstools to handle them. Same goes for reiserfs, you now need the official tools from namesys to handle reiserfs partitions.

Since most (all) of these tools lack decent API's i just call the commands from the code, this is a bit scary and definitely not considered elegant coding, but i didn't have much choice and so far it works out quite well.

At startuptime gparted scans for available commands and enables/disabled certain functionality. e.g. if 'mke2fs' is found, creation of ext2 is enabled. This is quite cool since you can now enable support for filesystems without rebuilding gparted. just install the tools for your specific filesystem en (re)start gparted. That's all :)

Of course using CLI-tools has some disadvantages. One of the most annoying is the lack of proper progressfeedback. Although i have some ideas on how to solve this, atm it's still just a dumb guess :)

More information can be found in the Changelog

Have fun and don't forget to report your bugs :^)

Adrighem created a debianpackage for the latest libparted release. See the releasenotes for more information.

Get it from the usual downloadlocation at SourceForge.


Btw. gparted-0.0.7 will be released this week.

Piero (scognito) created an Ubuntu-package. It seemed some Ubuntu users were experiencing problems with the other debianpackage.

Get it from the usual downloadsection at SourceForge.

A brand-new GParted =)
We now have support for reiserfs [1]
Startup time is down with a couple of seconds (the gui gets loaded first and the deepscan of all partitions is performed later)
Changes, Fixes, new and updated translations....

Since nothing else comes to mind i happily point at the Changelog :P


[1] Besides it's builtin filesystems, libparted also offers support for reiserfs through an extern package (progreiserfs). The presence of this package is detected at runtime and support for reiserfs is enabled/disabled accordingly.
Since progreiserfs is NOT the 'official' reiserfsprogs it's a good idea to use caution!
Get it from ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/libreiserfs/progsreiserfs-0.3.0.5.tar.gz

Today i read the following comment on gnomefiles.org:

Hi,

You can get packages for debian sid (unstable) here:
http://atlas.et.tudelft.nl/valium/gparted/

Not apt-gettable.

Vincent, thanks! People, you know where to send the bugreports (adrighem AT gnome DOT org) :^)

It took a bit longer then i'd hoped, but here it is: *drumbeats* gparted-0.0.5 ! As planned, this release includes support for other languages, so the non-english speakers out there can enjoy gparted as well.
I've also made a few (minor) changes to the graphical interface and fixed a number of bugs, see the changelog for more details. Besides this i did some codecleanups, which should gain performance and improve readability of the code ;).

Special thanks go to the guys from the Dutch Translations team. They helped me with a lot of i18n issues i didn't even know to exist :)

Note that i've moved the CVS tree to Gnome CVS, see the downloadpage for instruction on how to access it.

As always, please send me your bugreports, ideas, new colors or whatever... thnx!

With this release GParted covers all libparted's major features. It also features a new pending operationslist which looks much nicer (i hope ;) ). Besides that, i fixed a couple of bugs and did a number of smaller fixes. See the changelog for more details.

As always, free free to contact me if you have any questions, remarks or suggestions

next step : i18n and more filesystems ;)

Well, here it is, the first public release of gparted. See the Changelog for detailed info about the changes since the first two releases.
I look forward to your bugreports, remarks and suggestions. If you have any questions feel free to contact me.

Please read the "Important!" message at the download page.

I decided to place the logo's i receive online so everybody can enjoy them. Hopefully i'll soon be forced to write a paginating script ;)

Yesterday i got the first design for a logo from someone. Thanks! And keep them coming :)

In the meanwhile i am about to release gparted 0.0.2. This release contains fixes and modifications as a result on the feedback i got on version 0.0.1 .
This will be the last private release. After i've got the results i will release gparted 0.0.3 to the real world :) Thanks for waiting.

Vincent from gnome-nl was kind enough to send me some templates. I really appreciate this since i *hate* webprogramming ;)

This release was only for insiders. They're going to test gparted and send me feedback about GUI, stability and anything else that comes to mind.
I really look forward to all the reports ;-)

For the people who were not so lucky :-) I plan on putting some files in CVS at the end of next week. So stay tuned..