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3 * Noteworthy changes in release 1.9.0 (2009-07-23) [stable]
7 parted now preserves the protective MBR (PMBR) in GPT type labels.
8 http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2008-December/\
10 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2008-12/msg00015.html
12 gpt_read now uses SizeOfPartitionEntry instead of the size of
13 GuidPartitionEntry_t. This ensures that *all* of the partition
14 entries are correctly read.
15 http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2008-December/\
17 http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/attachments/\
18 20081202/b7c0528d/attachment.txt
20 mklabel (interactive mode) now correctly asks for confirmation, when
21 replacing an existent label, without outputting an error message.
22 http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2009-January/\
25 resize now handles FAT16 file systems with a 64k cluster. This
26 configuration is not common, but it is possible.
27 http://parted.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/ticket/207
29 parted now ignores devices of the type /dev/md* when probing. These
30 types of devices should be handled by the device-mapper capabilities
32 http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2009-April/\
35 The parted documentation now describes the differences in the options
36 passed to mkpart for the label types.
37 http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2009-April/\
40 ** Changes in behavior
42 include/parted/beos.h, include/parted/gnu.h and include/parted/linux.h
43 have been removed. The symbols contained in these files (GNUSpecific,
44 ped_device_new_from_store, BEOSSpecific, LinuxSpecific, LINUX_SPECIFIC)
45 were moved to the individual files that need them.
47 In libparted, the linux-swap "filesystem" types are now called
48 "linux-swap(v0)" and "linux-swap(v1)" rather than "linux-swap(old)"
49 and "linux-swap(new)" as in parted 1.8, or "linux-swap" as in older
50 versions; "old" and "new" generally make poor names, and v1 is the
51 only format supported by current Linux kernels. Aliases for all
52 previous names are available.
54 * Noteworthy changes in release 1.8.8.1 (2007-12-17) [stable]
56 FIXME: fill in details
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