GParted

The GParted team is proud to announce a well-tested, stable release of GParted Live. This release includes another critical bug fix for a potential crash that might cause loss of data while moving or copying a ... [More] partition. We strongly recommend that all users of GParted Live 0.15.0-x and 0.16.0-x upgrade to GParted Live 0.16.1-1 to avoid data loss. Items of note include: Avoid another crash in GParted when moving or copying partitions Based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2013/May/1) In an effort to ensure the reliability and integrity of this release, we have conducted over 200 successful tests. These tests included moves, copies, creates, labels, new UUIDs, growing, shrinking, and deleting partitions containing each type of file system. Special thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood, Phillip Susi, and Steven Shiau for their timely efforts to create this stable release. Curtis [Less]

In an effort to ensure the reliability and integrity of GParted, this release has undergone more intensive reviews and additional testing on multiple GNU/Linux distributions. This release includes another ... [More] critical bug fix for a potential crash that might cause loss of data while moving or copying a partition. We strongly recommend that all users of GParted 0.15.0 and 0.16.0 upgrade to GParted 0.16.1 to avoid data loss. Key changes include: Avoid another crash in GParted when moving or copying partitions Fix GParted doesn't compile on RHEL / CentOS 5.9 See the Release Notes for more details. Curtis [Less]

Since the release of GParted 0.16.0, we have discovered another potential issue with timing and multiple threads. This issue appears to occur on older GNU/Linux distributions. In fact the issue was not apparent in our ... [More] testing of GParted 0.16.0 on recent distros. For more details see Bug 695279 - GParted doesn't compile on RHEL / CentOS 5.9. As a precaution we plan to keep GParted Live 0.16.0-1 in the testing directory while we work towards a fix for this newly identified issue. Until this problem is resolved we continue to advise using the last stable release of GParted Live, which is GParted Live 0.14.1-6. Curtis [Less]

This release of GParted includes a critical bug fix for a crash that might cause loss of data while moving or copying a partition. We strongly recommend that all users of GParted 0.15.0 upgrade to GParted 0.16.0 to ... [More] avoid data loss. Also included are bug fixes, enhancements and language translation updates. Key changes include: Avoid crash in GParted when moving or copying partitions Fix GParted scans forever blank disk in virtual machine Add support for f2fs file system See the Release Notes for more details. Curtis [Less]

We are investigating reports of intermittent crashes with GParted 0.15.0. See Bug 697727 - Segfault in livecd Gparted v 0.15.0-3 when copying partition. The risk of LOSS of DATA ... [More] is highest when performing partition moves, resizes, copies, and checks. As such we recommend using GParted 0.14.1 for all move, resize, copy, and check operations. Other operations such as create, delete, format, label, set UUID, and delete might also crash, but these should not result in unexpected data loss, and the operation can be repeated. Until this problem is resolved we advise using the last stable release of GParted Live, which is GParted Live 0.14.1-6. We highly recommend that you BACKUP your DATA before using any partitioning tool. Curtis [Less]

The GParted team is proud to announce another stable release of GParted Live. This is a bug fix release to address a few minor problems. Items of note include: The GParted Live ... [More] ISO file is now an isohbrid. This means it can be written as an image to CD, or written directly to USB flash drive using a command such a dd. The fluxbox menu key function now works again Linux kernel updated to 3.2.41-1 Based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2013/Mar/27) Thanks goes to Steven Shiau for creating this GParted Live image. Curtis [Less]

The GParted team is proud to announce a new stable release of GParted Live. The biggest change with this release comes from enhancements to GParted that track live updates of command execution progress in the ... [More] details section of the apply operations window. Other items of note include: Move operations are twice as fast as prior versions Proper cancel support has been added Volume label length is now based on file system type Unallocated space is selected by default Linux kernel updated to 3.2.39-2 Based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2013/Mar/20) Thanks goes to Steven Shiau for creating this enhanced live image. Curtis [Less]

The big news with this release is the ability to track live updates of command execution progress. This should help with determining the status of long running commands by enabling users to see the live command output ... [More] in the details section of the apply operations window. This new ability is implemented by a fundamental code change that spawns commands to run asynchronously. Also included in this release are bug fixes and language translation updates. Key changes include: Live tracking of command progress output in the details log Move operations are twice as fast as prior versions Proper cancel support added Volume label length now based on file system type Unallocated space is selected by default New key bindings added: - Insert --> New Partition - Ctrl+Enter --> Apply All Operations See the Release Notes for more details. Curtis [Less]

A new document has been written that includes step-by-step instructions on how to fix overlapping partitions. See How-to Fix Invalid MSDOS Partition Tables. Curtis

The GParted Live Manual has been updated. The manual describes how to use the GParted Live image from boot up to shut down. New sections include: Working with keyboard only Accessing ... [More] desktop menu See the documentation page to view the updated manual. Curtis [Less]