- Issued:
- 2009-05-18
- Updated:
- 2009-05-18
RHEA-2009:0979 - Product Enhancement Advisory
Synopsis
parted enhancement update
Type/Severity
Product Enhancement Advisory
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
Topic
An updated parted package that adds virtio device support is now available.
Description
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.
This update adds the following enhancement:
- BZ#479678. virtio is an API for handling virtual I/O devices in
virtualization environments. virtio disks did not properly re-scan the
partition table after changing it. The re-scanning did not occur because
Parted marked virtio disks as "unknown" and did not do the re-scan. With
this update a VIRTIO disk type has been added to Parted, enabling support
for virtio devices.
Parted users should install this update which adds this enhancement.
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/docs/DOC-11259
Affected Products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 ia64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 ia64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4 s390x
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4 s390
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 4 ppc
Fixes
- BZ - 479678 - RHEL4 kvm virtio: parted support for virtio block devices
CVEs
(none)
References
(none)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4
SRPM | |
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parted-1.6.19-23.EL.src.rpm | SHA-256: 7cc2a5abd00b7a28996bcd969c2d349a926222e0808c7f52179cedd7c05ad77f |
x86_64 | |
parted-1.6.19-23.EL.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: c14ea3df4fb3e035010c32704fab06626ef67d1a5fefa3173487cb8e5c24a042 |
parted-1.6.19-23.EL.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: c14ea3df4fb3e035010c32704fab06626ef67d1a5fefa3173487cb8e5c24a042 |
parted-devel-1.6.19-23.EL.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 739f715d7c2e80e7278de611fb3d98708753c94eebfe353cd5684bf84cdfa49d |
parted-devel-1.6.19-23.EL.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 739f715d7c2e80e7278de611fb3d98708753c94eebfe353cd5684bf84cdfa49d |
ia64 | |
parted-1.6.19-23.EL.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: ee469da7003870cc41e9e477e2a81d8101f4442953760f63c22cc7a149ee70a4 |
parted-1.6.19-23.EL.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: ee469da7003870cc41e9e477e2a81d8101f4442953760f63c22cc7a149ee70a4 |
parted-devel-1.6.19-23.EL.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: 1f83c1d3c366f96fb2820344299aeca26a8e622a16eae2c73fd5acfc7195df5e |
parted-devel-1.6.19-23.EL.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: 1f83c1d3c366f96fb2820344299aeca26a8e622a16eae2c73fd5acfc7195df5e |
i386 | |
parted-1.6.19-23.EL.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 53b4b80a92c4430e68c19096977ee0e70e1c6dcd48f0e952612d3a81f6da8806 |
parted-1.6.19-23.EL.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 53b4b80a92c4430e68c19096977ee0e70e1c6dcd48f0e952612d3a81f6da8806 |
parted-devel-1.6.19-23.EL.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 633b17cb32c5b077971a375f015332afe7ee0832d544fc419b875b6b2eb745bf |
parted-devel-1.6.19-23.EL.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 633b17cb32c5b077971a375f015332afe7ee0832d544fc419b875b6b2eb745bf |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4
SRPM | |
---|---|
parted-1.6.19-23.EL.src.rpm | SHA-256: 7cc2a5abd00b7a28996bcd969c2d349a926222e0808c7f52179cedd7c05ad77f |
x86_64 | |
parted-1.6.19-23.EL.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: c14ea3df4fb3e035010c32704fab06626ef67d1a5fefa3173487cb8e5c24a042 |
parted-devel-1.6.19-23.EL.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 739f715d7c2e80e7278de611fb3d98708753c94eebfe353cd5684bf84cdfa49d |
ia64 | |
parted-1.6.19-23.EL.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: ee469da7003870cc41e9e477e2a81d8101f4442953760f63c22cc7a149ee70a4 |
parted-devel-1.6.19-23.EL.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: 1f83c1d3c366f96fb2820344299aeca26a8e622a16eae2c73fd5acfc7195df5e |
i386 | |
parted-1.6.19-23.EL.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 53b4b80a92c4430e68c19096977ee0e70e1c6dcd48f0e952612d3a81f6da8806 |
parted-devel-1.6.19-23.EL.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 633b17cb32c5b077971a375f015332afe7ee0832d544fc419b875b6b2eb745bf |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4
SRPM | |
---|---|
parted-1.6.19-23.EL.src.rpm | SHA-256: 7cc2a5abd00b7a28996bcd969c2d349a926222e0808c7f52179cedd7c05ad77f |
x86_64 | |
parted-1.6.19-23.EL.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: c14ea3df4fb3e035010c32704fab06626ef67d1a5fefa3173487cb8e5c24a042 |
parted-devel-1.6.19-23.EL.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 739f715d7c2e80e7278de611fb3d98708753c94eebfe353cd5684bf84cdfa49d |
i386 | |
parted-1.6.19-23.EL.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 53b4b80a92c4430e68c19096977ee0e70e1c6dcd48f0e952612d3a81f6da8806 |
parted-devel-1.6.19-23.EL.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 633b17cb32c5b077971a375f015332afe7ee0832d544fc419b875b6b2eb745bf |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4
SRPM | |
---|---|
parted-1.6.19-23.EL.src.rpm | SHA-256: 7cc2a5abd00b7a28996bcd969c2d349a926222e0808c7f52179cedd7c05ad77f |
s390x | |
parted-1.6.19-23.EL.s390x.rpm | SHA-256: 7a28242958c86c61895089912c048d4f55dffc3eb6e7fde4a5f4afa5bdc9af9a |
parted-devel-1.6.19-23.EL.s390x.rpm | SHA-256: e9ccb9a318976cfd321d4c5e166843f2fa9635c2ce210b63d30cc909fd65d583 |
s390 | |
parted-1.6.19-23.EL.s390.rpm | SHA-256: d5fdb4819a04585e1f02e7ff27ac1c9b45d17aabb8d02aaae92fdc40d9682126 |
parted-devel-1.6.19-23.EL.s390.rpm | SHA-256: ea81b17b76effa3428927b3dec23d0892f135d0566484aa743d19d0779560e9c |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 4
SRPM | |
---|---|
parted-1.6.19-23.EL.src.rpm | SHA-256: 7cc2a5abd00b7a28996bcd969c2d349a926222e0808c7f52179cedd7c05ad77f |
ppc | |
parted-1.6.19-23.EL.ppc.rpm | SHA-256: bffd55954fbc50af8d62e3d5fbd41870d64d1db87d5c3214a93a0844de6ede3d |
parted-devel-1.6.19-23.EL.ppc.rpm | SHA-256: 9771dd2d9e8e8a1db7784bbd7c0b16fa9f0574baa5ca37ea9ada87f80565b259 |
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