[parted-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Prevent crash resizing FAT16 file systems

[Curtis Gedak]

Hi Phillip,

On 14-10-06 09:51 AM, Phillip Susi wrote:
> Do you know if Ubuntu 13.10 is affected by this so I can apply it
> there too before it is released?

I assume you mean Ubuntu 14.10 since 13.10 is end-of-life and 14.10 is
yet to be officially released.  :-)

Yes, the fat16 resize crash problem exists in the (lib)parted-3.2-6
package included in ubuntu 14.10.  I confirmed this using the ubuntu
14.10beta desktop i386 iso in a Virtual Machine.

As Mike pointed out, resizing fat16 file systems will fail on any
GNU/Linux distro with (lib)parted version 3.2.

Curtis