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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
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* 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
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)
All parted users should install the updated package, which resolve these issues.
1.152. pax
1.152.1. RHBA-2009:1591: bug fix update
Note
This update has already been released (prior to the GA of this release) as FASTRACK
errata
RHBA-2009:1591
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An updated pax package that fixes a bug is now available.
pax is the portable archive exchange utility. It is defined by a POSIX specification, and is able to
compress and decompress both tar and cpio archives, as well as several of their older variants.
This updated pax package fixes the following bug:
* the pax utility creates ustar (Uniform Standard Tape Archive) archives by default. Attempting to
create a ustar archive of a directory which contained path names that were exactly 100 characters in
length caused pax to fail with the following error message:
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=529672
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=563266