Bug Fix Advisory parted bug fix update

Advisory: RHBA-2008:0698-1
Type: Bug Fix Advisory
Severity: N/A
Issued on: 2008-07-24
Last updated on: 2008-07-24
Affected Products: Red Hat Desktop (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 4)
OVAL: N/A

Details

Updated parted packages that resolve several issues are now available.

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

These updated parted packages provide fixes for the following bugs:

* An upper limit on the maximum allowed size of DOS partitions was set in
order to prevent the creation of DOS partitions larger than 2 TB
(terabytes), which is unsupported by the DOS file system.

* partprobe has been modified so that it no longer automatically makes
changes to the disk without asking for user permission, such as when it
would attempt to restore GPT disk labels without prompting.

* certain failed assertion checks which occurred when probing the device
geometry on IBM S/390 and IBM System z systems no longer fail.

* extended partitions are now included when syncing changes to the disk.

All users of parted are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
resolve these issues.


Solution

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

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

Updated packages

Red Hat Desktop (v. 4)

SRPMS:
parted-1.6.19-22.EL.src.rpm     a886a454cbbcc22fe58569edc225dfd7
 
IA-32:
parted-1.6.19-22.EL.i386.rpm     fd57bff220f94445053a9aa85265dab6
parted-devel-1.6.19-22.EL.i386.rpm     54b6492e66f3ee97a094fcf75c7326ab
 
x86_64:
parted-1.6.19-22.EL.x86_64.rpm     cadd0f8b2a5f20c6257a8382556e40cc
parted-devel-1.6.19-22.EL.x86_64.rpm     a1105af8b0da1f6fccc90a60388d720a
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 4)

SRPMS:
parted-1.6.19-22.EL.src.rpm     a886a454cbbcc22fe58569edc225dfd7
 
IA-32:
parted-1.6.19-22.EL.i386.rpm     fd57bff220f94445053a9aa85265dab6
parted-devel-1.6.19-22.EL.i386.rpm     54b6492e66f3ee97a094fcf75c7326ab
 
IA-64:
parted-1.6.19-22.EL.ia64.rpm     d1de24649c0e1161ff3def66469484f2
parted-devel-1.6.19-22.EL.ia64.rpm     d6c2a23b6d420c2af17d682d507a8454
 
PPC:
parted-1.6.19-22.EL.ppc.rpm     3e10e14af3f1245dbec9336e5fe2afe0
parted-devel-1.6.19-22.EL.ppc.rpm     bc2a1ede846a31dd2cfd6738b68cd700
 
s390:
parted-1.6.19-22.EL.s390.rpm     116e8fe140ea740f9ef9c6bf7c2a66c7
parted-devel-1.6.19-22.EL.s390.rpm     29914857b8eaded08974f7d1ce204cff
 
s390x:
parted-1.6.19-22.EL.s390x.rpm     318d42361c28247c332c0eba4c983294
parted-devel-1.6.19-22.EL.s390x.rpm     40d11daf4fe9d51b9d1830c85d3dbb86
 
x86_64:
parted-1.6.19-22.EL.x86_64.rpm     cadd0f8b2a5f20c6257a8382556e40cc
parted-devel-1.6.19-22.EL.x86_64.rpm     a1105af8b0da1f6fccc90a60388d720a
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 4)

SRPMS:
parted-1.6.19-22.EL.src.rpm     a886a454cbbcc22fe58569edc225dfd7
 
IA-32:
parted-1.6.19-22.EL.i386.rpm     fd57bff220f94445053a9aa85265dab6
parted-devel-1.6.19-22.EL.i386.rpm     54b6492e66f3ee97a094fcf75c7326ab
 
IA-64:
parted-1.6.19-22.EL.ia64.rpm     d1de24649c0e1161ff3def66469484f2
parted-devel-1.6.19-22.EL.ia64.rpm     d6c2a23b6d420c2af17d682d507a8454
 
x86_64:
parted-1.6.19-22.EL.x86_64.rpm     cadd0f8b2a5f20c6257a8382556e40cc
parted-devel-1.6.19-22.EL.x86_64.rpm     a1105af8b0da1f6fccc90a60388d720a
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 4)

SRPMS:
parted-1.6.19-22.EL.src.rpm     a886a454cbbcc22fe58569edc225dfd7
 
IA-32:
parted-1.6.19-22.EL.i386.rpm     fd57bff220f94445053a9aa85265dab6
parted-devel-1.6.19-22.EL.i386.rpm     54b6492e66f3ee97a094fcf75c7326ab
 
IA-64:
parted-1.6.19-22.EL.ia64.rpm     d1de24649c0e1161ff3def66469484f2
parted-devel-1.6.19-22.EL.ia64.rpm     d6c2a23b6d420c2af17d682d507a8454
 
x86_64:
parted-1.6.19-22.EL.x86_64.rpm     cadd0f8b2a5f20c6257a8382556e40cc
parted-devel-1.6.19-22.EL.x86_64.rpm     a1105af8b0da1f6fccc90a60388d720a
 
(The unlinked packages above are only available from the Red Hat Network)

Bugs fixed (see bugzilla for more information)

209968 - parted should not create dos partitions >2TB
247278 - partprobe attempts to repair GPT signatures without confirmation
432441 - Parted assertion failure when installing to DASD emulated FCP device



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