[Parted-maintainers] Bug#558885: Bug #558885 - version 1.9.0 of GNU parted is available

[Curtis Gedak]

Be sure to apply patches to GNU Parted 1.9.0.

When used with newer Linux kernels, such as 2.6.30, parted-1.9.0 fails 
to inform the kernel of changes to the partition table.  This problem 
can be fixed with the following 'commit to os' patch:
http://git.debian.org/?p=parted/parted.git;a=commit;h=ad25892bb995f61b0ddf801ed1f74e0b1e7390ce

A list of several patches to parted-1.9.0 as used by the Fedora project 
can be found at the following link:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=129982

One of the problems experienced has been tracked in the following 
GParted bug report:
Bug #601574 - ERROR: Current NTFS volume size is bigger than the device 
size!
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=601574

This problem appears in earlier versions of GNU Parted which have been 
taken from the Parted git repository:
Bug #557044 - Parted 1.8.8.git.2009.07.19 not informing the kernel of 
changes to the partition table
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=557044

Regards,
Curtis Gedak
(Maintainer of GParted)