Issued:

2011-12-06

Updated:

2011-12-06

RHBA-2011:1626 - parted bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

parted bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated parted packages that fix three bugs and add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The parted packages allow you to create, destroy, resize, move, and copy hard disk partitions. The parted program can be used for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Prior to this update, parted incorrectly calculated the position of the new partition when partitions of 1 or smaller units (eg. 1GB, 0.5GB) were created. As a result, only an extremely small partition was created. This update fixes the snap problem for 1 unit and no longer allows defining units less than 1. The value 0 is still allowed when specifying the start of the device. The next smaller units should be used instead of a value smaller than 1. eg. Use 500MB instead of 0.5GB. (BZ#665496)

• Prior to this update, a cylinder-head-sector (CHS) value was, under certain circumstances, especially with factory partitioned USB drives, not found. As a result, parted threw an assertion when attempting to guess the CHS used to create a partition table, even though it was safe to continue without the CHS information. This update no longer throws an assertion when it cannot guess the CHS values used to create a partition table. (BZ#692562)

• Prior to this update, several tests of the parted test suite failed when running as root on IBM System z and 64-bit PowerPCs. With this update, the tests run as expected. (BZ#746098)

This update also adds the following enhancement:

• GPT disklabels now support the legacy_boot flag to allow bootloaders such as syslinux's hybrid gptmbr to be used on BIOS and EFI systems. It is set with the set command in parted. (BZ#711148)

All parted users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs and add this enhancement.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at This content is not included.https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259/

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• parted-debuginfo-2.1-17.el6.x86_64.rpm
• parted-2.1-17.el6.x86_64.rpm
• parted-debuginfo-2.1-17.el6.ppc.rpm
• parted-2.1-17.el6.s390.rpm
• parted-debuginfo-2.1-17.el6.s390x.rpm
• parted-2.1-17.el6.s390x.rpm
• parted-debuginfo-2.1-17.el6.s390.rpm
• parted-2.1-17.el6.ppc.rpm
• parted-2.1-17.el6.src.rpm
• parted-debuginfo-2.1-17.el6.i686.rpm
• parted-devel-2.1-17.el6.ppc64.rpm
• parted-2.1-17.el6.ppc64.rpm
• parted-devel-2.1-17.el6.i686.rpm
• parted-2.1-17.el6.i686.rpm
• parted-devel-2.1-17.el6.x86_64.rpm
• parted-devel-2.1-17.el6.s390.rpm
• parted-devel-2.1-17.el6.s390x.rpm
• parted-devel-2.1-17.el6.ppc.rpm
• parted-debuginfo-2.1-17.el6.ppc64.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 665496
• This content is not included.BZ - 692562

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

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