- Issued:
- 2010-03-30
- Updated:
- 2010-03-30
RHBA-2010:0257 - Bug Fix Advisory
Synopsis
parted bug fix update
Type/Severity
Bug Fix Advisory
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
Topic
Updated parted packages that resolve an issue editing gpt tables are 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 fixes the following problems:
- when parted is invoked in interactive mode on a disk with GUID Partition
Tables (GPT), if the backup GPT is not in the disk's last sector, parted
presents an alert;
Error: The backup GPT table is not at the end of the disk, as it should be.
This might mean that another operating system believes the disk is smaller.
Fix, by moving the backup to the end (and removing the old backup)?
and offers three options for continuing: Fix, Cancel or Ignore.
Previously, choosing Cancel or Ignore had no effect: no matter what option
was chosen, parted "fixed" (ie changed) the GUID partition table.
This update corrects this: if and when the above error presents, the Cancel
and Ignore options are now honored if selected, as expected. (BZ#529672)
- When parted is invoked on a disk, it checks to see if there is a file
system it recognizes on the partitions on the disk.
When parted was invoked on a dasd disk, and one of the partitions on the
disk did not contain a filesystem (such as for example a partition which is
a lvm physical volume), then parted would crash due to a NULL pointer
dereference. Parted now no longer crashes under these circumstances.
(BZ#563266)
All parted users should install the updated package, 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/docs/DOC-11259
Affected Products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386
Fixes
(none)CVEs
(none)
References
(none)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5
SRPM | |
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parted-1.8.1-27.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: c96cdcb5f7655b92f3b014d6fe747574593755fd327973c3d3507a04174d031d |
x86_64 | |
parted-1.8.1-27.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 3f8d2102b08758e3487202b5338800954ad98731f13db01e2070c17fe4a6855a |
parted-1.8.1-27.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 1b0452dae44fc7cddb29e43f550c47fef9f46b284f2218e9d38267925d401013 |
parted-devel-1.8.1-27.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: a4a2e8a8d3753dec12f2cfd8499f233b6529ba4c98911c40692738c1bfb5d05d |
parted-devel-1.8.1-27.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 84531cb41ec112187a0bccbf8d41c7f85c7f27f1200ae6ae665fbb41d43f8535 |
ia64 | |
parted-1.8.1-27.el5.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: 58bca2d8078cb508ac9e3d7578bc1ced34e8b6e0303da5c08a110a2a9766d395 |
parted-devel-1.8.1-27.el5.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: bf90a0c8b7fab9f3851c8e8abb6a2848d41372d55b8fef861bd9643d7b29619a |
i386 | |
parted-1.8.1-27.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 3f8d2102b08758e3487202b5338800954ad98731f13db01e2070c17fe4a6855a |
parted-devel-1.8.1-27.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: a4a2e8a8d3753dec12f2cfd8499f233b6529ba4c98911c40692738c1bfb5d05d |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
parted-1.8.1-27.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: c96cdcb5f7655b92f3b014d6fe747574593755fd327973c3d3507a04174d031d |
x86_64 | |
parted-1.8.1-27.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 3f8d2102b08758e3487202b5338800954ad98731f13db01e2070c17fe4a6855a |
parted-1.8.1-27.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 1b0452dae44fc7cddb29e43f550c47fef9f46b284f2218e9d38267925d401013 |
parted-devel-1.8.1-27.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: a4a2e8a8d3753dec12f2cfd8499f233b6529ba4c98911c40692738c1bfb5d05d |
parted-devel-1.8.1-27.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 84531cb41ec112187a0bccbf8d41c7f85c7f27f1200ae6ae665fbb41d43f8535 |
i386 | |
parted-1.8.1-27.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 3f8d2102b08758e3487202b5338800954ad98731f13db01e2070c17fe4a6855a |
parted-devel-1.8.1-27.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: a4a2e8a8d3753dec12f2cfd8499f233b6529ba4c98911c40692738c1bfb5d05d |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
parted-1.8.1-27.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: c96cdcb5f7655b92f3b014d6fe747574593755fd327973c3d3507a04174d031d |
x86_64 | |
parted-1.8.1-27.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 3f8d2102b08758e3487202b5338800954ad98731f13db01e2070c17fe4a6855a |
parted-1.8.1-27.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 1b0452dae44fc7cddb29e43f550c47fef9f46b284f2218e9d38267925d401013 |
i386 | |
parted-1.8.1-27.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 3f8d2102b08758e3487202b5338800954ad98731f13db01e2070c17fe4a6855a |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
parted-1.8.1-27.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: c96cdcb5f7655b92f3b014d6fe747574593755fd327973c3d3507a04174d031d |
s390x | |
parted-1.8.1-27.el5.s390.rpm | SHA-256: 18f59ffb9e6450f18d5216f05a28fc2e18896a24e910c3def2cf64f811e148af |
parted-1.8.1-27.el5.s390x.rpm | SHA-256: cd5377e5ee1a380bee9caf63ae2d702c5b86bc8d54734438d0724205684236f4 |
parted-devel-1.8.1-27.el5.s390.rpm | SHA-256: 547a5075538b8836434bec6dd18e47fd9b723c19d82848d8961ba8ae834f1d25 |
parted-devel-1.8.1-27.el5.s390x.rpm | SHA-256: 51b22774663c2316fd791813c516dbe5ed2db78904e44a9b5631c29f0dfe4d38 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
parted-1.8.1-27.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: c96cdcb5f7655b92f3b014d6fe747574593755fd327973c3d3507a04174d031d |
ppc | |
parted-1.8.1-27.el5.ppc.rpm | SHA-256: 6cd0b98420cca2a8f3d4ddf987f133dcd935f2501088273fe4d4625e4079734c |
parted-1.8.1-27.el5.ppc64.rpm | SHA-256: 094fdcbcec83168de28b47a45b9998476befa7125adee87b6fe58553c9abe137 |
parted-devel-1.8.1-27.el5.ppc.rpm | SHA-256: 6f85c43c56306e4b59af4bb60375797c7c44baf669ef3908e8758af2c843d3c0 |
parted-devel-1.8.1-27.el5.ppc64.rpm | SHA-256: 677b4c28d869e7033b52d693dcbf97e55df5e06345d94363cbab28194b879563 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
parted-1.8.1-27.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: c96cdcb5f7655b92f3b014d6fe747574593755fd327973c3d3507a04174d031d |
x86_64 | |
parted-1.8.1-27.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 3f8d2102b08758e3487202b5338800954ad98731f13db01e2070c17fe4a6855a |
parted-1.8.1-27.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 1b0452dae44fc7cddb29e43f550c47fef9f46b284f2218e9d38267925d401013 |
parted-devel-1.8.1-27.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: a4a2e8a8d3753dec12f2cfd8499f233b6529ba4c98911c40692738c1bfb5d05d |
parted-devel-1.8.1-27.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 84531cb41ec112187a0bccbf8d41c7f85c7f27f1200ae6ae665fbb41d43f8535 |
i386 | |
parted-1.8.1-27.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 3f8d2102b08758e3487202b5338800954ad98731f13db01e2070c17fe4a6855a |
parted-devel-1.8.1-27.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: a4a2e8a8d3753dec12f2cfd8499f233b6529ba4c98911c40692738c1bfb5d05d |
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