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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2013-11154
2013-08-16 15:51:11
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Name : gdisk
Product : Fedora EPEL 6
Version : 0.8.7
Release : 1.el6
URL :
http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/
Summary : An fdisk-like partitioning tool for GPT disks
Description :
An fdisk-like partitioning tool for GPT disks. GPT fdisk features a
command-line interface, fairly direct manipulation of partition table
structures, recovery tools to help you deal with corrupt partition
tables, and the ability to convert MBR disks to GPT format.
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Update Information:
Update to 0.8.7:
- Added "-a" option to cgdisk to use a ">" symbol to the left of
the selected partition rather than ncurses highlighting.
- Modified "converting MBR to GPT" message to clarify that the conversion is
being held in memory, since some people have mistakenly assumed that a "gdisk
-l" operation will change an MBR disk to a GPT disk without prompting.
- Added partition type code for freedesktop.org's proposed $BOOT partition
(bc13c2ff-59e6-4262-a352-b275fd6f7172; GPT fdisk type code EA00)
- Adjusted alignment code when using -n or -N in sgdisk to keep the requested partition
size (if specified using +###{MGT} terminology) as the requested value rather than
relative to the requested start point. This gives you the requested partition size rather
than be slightly smaller if sgdisk needs to adjust the start point up a bit and it
prevents gaps from appearing between partitions if several are created in succession using
automatic placement of the start point.
- Removed stray debug message that would appear when reading MBR disks.
- Added partition type code for Intel Rapid Start partition (GUID
D3BFE2DE-3DAF-11DF-BA40-E3A556D89593, code 8400), used by systems that implement
Intel's Rapid Start technology. See
http://blog.adios.tw/2012/10/funtoo-linux-and-intel-rapid-start.html or
http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/26022.html.
- Added partition type code for Haiku BFS (GUID
42465331-3BA3-10F1-802A-4861696B7521; code EB00).
- Fixed a bug that could cause sgdisk to crash when passing a partition number of 0 to the
-t option.
- Added a new check to the verification code.
- Added partition type code for Sony system partition
(F4019732-066E-4E12-8273-346C5641494F). I'm not entirely clear what this is used for,
but it's appearing on some new Sony computers.
- Tweaked hybrid MBR creation options to fix a problem that caused the main 0xEE MBR
partition to NOT be created if the user told gdisk to NOT place it at the start of the
disk AND IF fewer than three partitions are hybridize AND IF the user opted to create a
second protective partition.
- Added partition type codes for VMWare ESX (FB00, FB01, and FC00).
- Added type codes for Midnight BSD (0xA580 - 0xA585). I used these codes because Midnight
BSD uses the same 0xA5 type code as FreeBSD on MBR disks, so I'm starting Midnight
BSD's numbering halfway through the 0xA5## range.
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update gdisk' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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