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2022-04-18  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        version 3.5
        * NEWS: Record release date.

        NEWS: Mention gnulib update

        maint: Update to latest gnulib and bootstrap script

2022-04-05  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        maint: post-release administrivia
        * NEWS: Add header line for next release.
        * .prev-version: Record previous version.
        * cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Auto-update.

        version 3.4.64.2
        * NEWS: Record release date.

        NEWS: Mention bugfix

2022-03-31  Benno Schulenberg  <bensberg@telfort.nl>

        bug#54649: [PATCH] usage: remove the mention of "a particular partition"
        This complements commit b20227adf5 from five months ago.

2022-03-30  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        maint: post-release administrivia
        * NEWS: Add header line for next release.
        * .prev-version: Record previous version.
        * cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Auto-update.

        version 3.4.64
        * NEWS: Record release date.

2022-03-29  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        NEWS: Add new features and bugs

2022-03-28  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        doc: Add KiB and mention rescue in documentation

2022-03-25  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        configure.ac: Add AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR

        configure.ac: Add -Wno-portability
        This is to quiet automake warnings about Makefile.am files using GNU
        make extensions like pattern rules.

        configure.ac: Update macros for autoconf 2.71

        tests: Remove trailing blanks

        parted: Fix config.h include in jsonwrt.c

        libparted: Fix syntax-check sc_avoid_if_before_free error
        It is safe to free even if they are NULL.

2022-03-23  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        gpt: Include xalloc-oversized.h

        maint: Add ./lib/malloc and libparted-fs-resize.pc to .gitignore

        maint: Update copyright statements to 2022
        By running make update-copyright

        maint: Bump library REVISION number for release

        maint: Update to latest gnulib and bootstrap script

2021-12-01  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        doc: Add bios_grub to parted manpage

2021-10-06  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        docs: Update documentation to be consistent
        This fixes some missing commands in the parted.texi file used to
        generate the web manual and info document. It also removes documentation
        for the never-implemented 'print NUMBER' command which only returns 1.

        The parted manpage has been updated to document the available print
        options, disk_set, and disk_toggle commands.

2021-09-30  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        gpt: Revert to filesystem GUID when setting flag to off

        tests: Add a test to make sure GPT GUIDs default to filesystem
        When no flag is set on a GPT partition the GUID should fall back to the
        filesystem type for fat32, swap, and hfs+ and if no filesystem is found
        it should default to linux filesystem data type, showing no filesystem
        and no flags.

        doc: Document gpt linux-home flag

2021-09-30  Arvin Schnell  <aschnell@suse.com>

        gpt: Add linux-home flag
        This sets the partition GUID to the linux home type:
        933AC7E1-2EB4-4F13-B844-0E14E2AEF915

2021-09-29  Arvin Schnell  <aschnell@suse.com>

        gpt: Map PED_PARTITON_ flags to GUID values
        Drop the 14 flags from _GPTPartitionData that correspond to a
        partition type/uuid. Use the type/uuid directly instead.

2021-09-23  Arvin Schnell  <aschnell@suse.com>

        keep GUID specific attributes
        Keep GUID specific attributes when writing GPT.

2021-09-22  Colin Watson  <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>

        hurd: Implement partition table rereading
        We have to tell both the device for the drive itself, it case it
        implements the partitioned devices, and tell the partition devices
        to go away, in case they are implemented on their own by using parted.

2021-09-22  Samuel Thibault  <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>

        hurd: Support rumpdisk-based device names

2021-09-22  Colin Watson  <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>

        hurd: Fix partition paths
        We have always had an 's' to separate drive number from partition
        number.

2021-08-25  Arvin Schnell  <aschnell@suse.com>

        parted: Add --json cmdline switch to output JSON
        This outputs the disk's details as a JSON object. eg. a disk image with
        a single partition from 1M to 100M:

        {
           "disk": {
              "path": "/root/disk1.img",
              "size": "2097152s",
              "model": "",
              "transport": "file",
              "logical-sector-size": 512,
              "physical-sector-size": 512,
              "label": "gpt",
              "max-partitions": 128,
              "partitions": [
                 {
                    "number": 0,
                    "start": "34s",
                    "end": "2047s",
                    "size": "2014s",
                    "type": "free"
                 },{
                    "number": 1,
                    "start": "2048s",
                    "end": "200703s",
                    "size": "198656s",
                    "type": "primary",
                    "name": "root"
                 },{
                    "number": 0,
                    "start": "200704s",
                    "end": "2097118s",
                    "size": "1896415s",
                    "type": "free"
                 }
              ]
           }
        }

2021-08-25  Arvin Schnell  <aschnell@suse.com>

        parted: Allow empty string for partition name
        This makes it possible to pass an empty string in script mode e.g. to
        set no partition name (on GPT):

        parted -s ./disk.img mklabel gpt mkpart '""' ext2 1 100M

        Includes a new test for this feature.

2021-08-25  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        libparted: Check devpath before passing to strlen

2021-08-10  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        libparted: Tell libdevmapper to retry remove when BUSY
        This sets the libdevmapper retry remove flag, which will retry a remove
        command if it is BUSY.

        parted already has it's own BUSY retry code, but when run with
        device-mapper an error can be printed by libdevmapper which can be
        confusing to the user.

        Resolves: rhbz#1980697

2021-08-10  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        parted: Escape colons and backslashes in machine output
        The device path, device model, and partition name could all contain
        colons or backslashes. This escapes all of these with a backslash.

        Thanks to Arvin Schnell for the patch.

2021-08-10  Ross Burton  <ross.burton@arm.com>

        tests: check for vfat kernel support and tools
        t1100-busy-label.sh and t1101-busy-partition.sh create and mount VFAT
        partitions, so check for both the tools and the kernel support.

        Fixes bug#49594.

2021-08-10  Ross Burton  <ross.burton@arm.com>

        tests: add a helper to check the kernel knows about a file system
        Some tests need both the file system tools (eg mkfs.vfat) and kernel
        support (eg vfat kernel module) to pass.

        There are already helpers such as require_fat_ which check for mkfs.vfat,
        but if the kernel doesn't support the filesystem then mounting the disk
        image will fail.

        Add require_filesystem_, which checks for either the filesystem name in
        /proc/filesystems (so it's built-in, or already loaded) or if the name
        is a valid module (so can be loaded on demand).

2021-08-10  Ross Burton  <ross.burton@arm.com>

        tests: add aarch64 and mips64 as a valid 64-bit machines
        require_64_bit_ in t-lib-helpers.sh has a hard-coded list of uname
        machines that are 64-bit, so add aarch64 and mips64 to cover the major
        architectures.

2021-08-10  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        libparted: Add swap flag to msdos disklabel
        Previously you had to set the filesystem type to one of the linux-swap
        options at creation time. With this change you can now toggle the
        partition swap type using the 'swap' partition flag in the same way that
        you can on gpt disklabels.

        Thanks to Arvin Schnell for this patch.

2021-08-10  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        Move Exception Option values into enum
        Adding enums together doesn't create a new enum value, so when compiling
        with warnings you will get warnings like:

        warning: case value ‘96’ not in enumerated type

        for PED_EXCEPTION_IGNORE_CANCEL

        This moved the defines into the enum as new values so that they are
        recognized as valid members of the enum with the values staying the
        same.

        NOTE: PED_EXCEPTION_OPTION_LAST *MUST* be the last of the individual
        options, not the combined options.

        Thanks to D. Hugh Redelmeier for this patch.

2021-07-29  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        tests/t3000: Use mkfs.hfsplus and fsck.hfsplus for resize tests

2021-07-15  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        tests/t3000: Check for hfs and vfat support separately
        Previously the whole test would be skipped if either mkfs.hfs or
        mkfs.vfat were not installed, leading to missing test coverage. This
        change checks for them individually so that the test will run with
        either or both of them installed

2021-07-14  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        tests/t6006: Change dev_size_mb to 10
        This is backed by memory, so using more than is needed limits the size
        of the system it can run on.

        tests/t3200: Change dev_size_mb to 10
        This is backed by memory, so using more than is needed limits the size
        of the system it can run on.

2021-07-14  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        tests/t3000: Change dev_size_mb to 267
        FAT32 needs a minimum partition size of 256MB so this is as small as we
        can make it.

        This is backed by memory, so using more than is needed limits the size
        of the system it can run on.

2021-07-12  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        tests/t1701: Change dev_size_mb to 10
        This is backed by memory, so using more than is needed limits the size
        of the system it can run on.

        tests/t1102: Change dev_size_mb to 10
        This is backed by memory, so using more than is needed limits the size
        of the system it can run on.

        tests/t1101: Change dev_size_mb to 10
        This is backed by memory, so using more than is needed limits the size
        of the system it can run on.

        tests/t1100: Change dev_size_mb to 10
        This is backed by memory, so using more than is needed limits the size
        of the system it can run on.

2021-06-14  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        tests: t9050 Use /dev/zero for temporary file and mkswap
        and clean up the usage a little bit by giving it a proper name and
        removing the file when finished.

        tests: t0400 - Work around a mkswap bug by using /dev/zero
        mkswap gets stuck, in some situations, when operating on a file full of
        holes (see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1971877) so work
        around that by using /dev/zero instead of /dev/null

2021-06-11  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        libparted: Fix potential memory leak in gpt_write
        _generate_header() can return with 1 after allocating gpt so it needs to
        be freed in the error path.

        libparted: Fix warning about buffer size in Atari label
        When the Atari table is empty it copies 'PARTEDATARI' into the id, and
        the start and size bytes. This can be confusion, so turn it into a
        union of the string and the non-empty values.

        parted: Fix memory leaks in do_resizepart

        parted: Free tmp usage inside do_print
        str_list_create calls gettext_to_wchar which makes a copy of it.

        parted: Fix end_input leak in do_mkpart

        fs: Fix copy-paste error in HFS journal code

        libparted: Fix potential memory leak in sdmmc_get_product_info

        libparted: Fix fd check in _flush_cache
        In theory open() could return 0 so the correct error value is -1.

2021-02-09  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        t0501-duplicate.sh: Add some more disk label types to the duplicate test
        Add sun, atari, mac, and pc98 to the disklabels that we test
        ped_disk_duplicate on.

        aix isn't included because it doesn't support adding partitions.
        dvh doesn't support boot partition
        loop cannot be partitioned

2021-02-09  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        tests: Increase disk size for duplicate test
        Increase it from 8MiB to 32MiB and start the first partition at 2048
        sector boundary instead of 32 so that no matter the sector size it will
        be aligned.

2021-01-28  Cristian Klein  <cristian.klein@elastisys.com>

        tests: Fix t9041-undetected-in-use-16th-partition
        Sometimes fails with:
        ```
        + mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda15
        mke2fs 1.45.5 (07-Jan-2020)
        /dev/sda15: Not enough space to build proposed filesystem while setting up superblock
        ```

2021-01-28  Cristian Klein  <cristian.klein@elastisys.com>

        tests: Fix test t1700-probe-fs
        mkfs.ext3 (see version below) was complaining that the filesystem is too small
        for a journal, which made the test fail.

        ```
        $ mkfs.ext3 -V
        mke2fs 1.45.5 (07-Jan-2020)
                Using EXT2FS Library version 1.45.5
        ```

2021-01-28  Cristian Klein  <cristian.klein@elastisys.com>

        tests: Add tests for --fix

        doc: Document --fix flag
        Also fix copyright year, to please `make syntax-check`.

2021-01-28  Cristian Klein  <cristian.klein@elastisys.com>

        parted: add --fix to "fix" in script mode
        Use-case: VMs are booted from images that are smaller than their virtual
        disk. This means that -- almost by definition -- the secondary GPT
        header will be "misplaced", i.e., not at the end of the virtual disk.

        Without this patch, parted cannot be used for custom/exotic partitioning
        when the VM boots (e.g., in cloud-init's `bootcmd`). Specifically, it
        will fail as follows:

        ```
        $ sudo parted --script /dev/vda "mkpart 2 10GB -1"
        Warning: Not all of the space available to /dev/vda appears to be used,
        you can fix the GPT to use all of the space (an extra 500 blocks) or continue with the current setting?
        Error: Unable to satisfy all constraints on the partition.
        ```

        This happens because, in script mode, exceptions are usually not
        resolved.

        This patch adds `--fix`. This allows exceptions to be automatically
        resolved with Fix. As a result, the following command will work:

        ```
        $ sudo parted --fix --script /dev/vda "mkpart 2 10GB -1"
        ```

2021-01-28  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        libparted: Add includes for gnulib redefining free
        gnulib redefines free using #define, causing problems with the
        pt-common.h file. Work around that by including standard header files as
        suggested by gnulib maintainer:

        https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2021-01/msg00315.html

2021-01-27  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        maint: Update bootstrap script from latest gnulib

        maint: Update to latest gnulib

        maint: post-release administrivia
        * NEWS: Add header line for next release.
        * .prev-version: Record previous version.
        * cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Auto-update.

        version 3.4
        * NEWS: Record release date.

        NEWS: Mention the non-public gnulib commit

2021-01-26  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        cfg.mk: disable submodule checks to work around broken upstream gnulib

        Include local gnulib change to version-etc.c date

2021-01-18  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        maint: Update copyright statements to 2021
        By running make update-copyright

        README-release: Add information for updating the Translation Project

2020-12-14  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        maint: post-release administrivia
        * NEWS: Add header line for next release.
        * .prev-version: Record previous version.
        * cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Auto-update.

        version 3.3.52
        * NEWS: Record release date.

2020-12-11  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        libparted/fs: Add ./lib to include search path

        libparted: Check for NULL flag_name in ped_partition_flag_get_by_name
        strcasecmp parameters cannot be NULL according to gcc -Wanalyzer-null-argument

        po/POTFILES.in: Remove xstrtol-error.c
        Appears to no longer be needed, results in an error when running make
        check syntax-check.

        maint: Update copyright statements to 2020
        By running make update-copyright

        configure.ac (AC_PREREQ): Require 2.64

        maint: Bump library REVISION number for release

        maint: Update bootstrap script from latest gnulib

        maint: Update to latest gnulib

2020-12-04  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        labels/bsd.c: Drop alpha_bootblock_checksum from bsd_probe
        Thanks to Alpine Linux for catching this. In commit
        a5f69f396713ab8ac1e57458cbb9af552d2c1659 I change label to actually
        point to the label and failed to pass the new s0 to
        alpha_bootblock_checksum() instead of label. So it was writing the
        so-called checksum off the end of the 512b sector buffer.

        bug: https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/issues/12161
        upstream report: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=45026

2020-11-20  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        libparted/fs: Fix GCC warnings suggesting pure for PED_ASSERT functions
        There was some question about whether or not pure should be used for
        functions with PED_ASSERT (or exit) in them. It should be fine, since
        the values checked by the ASSERT are passed to the function directly.
        Behavior should be exactly the same for the same inputs.

        libparted: Remove disabled code

        fs/r/hfs: Remove disabled code

        fs/r/fat: Remove disabled code

        hfs/reloc_plus: Fix gcc 10 warnings about cast alignment

        hfs/reloc: Fix gcc 10 warnings about cast alignment

        ui: Fix gcc 10 warning about snprintf truncating an int
        Double the storage to 20 bytes.

        ui: Fix command_line_get_disk_flag
        It was using PedPartitionFlag instead of PedDiskFlag when walking the
        available flags.

        ped_assert: Fix incorrect exception option
        PED_EXCEPTION_FATAL is a type, not an option. A PED_EXCEPTION_BUG should
        always select CANCEL.

        ufs:  Fix gcc 10 warnings about cast alignment

        ntfs:  Fix gcc 10 warnings about cast alignment

        nilfs2: Fix gcc 10 warnings about cast alignment

        ext2: Fix gcc 10 warnings about cast alignment

        hfs/hfs: Fix gcc 10 warnings about cast alignment

        hfs/advfs_plus: Fix gcc 10 warnings about cast alignment

        hfs/advfs: Fix gcc 10 warnings about cast alignment

        hfs: Fix gcc 10 bounds check warning
        binfo is actually a list of structs that cannot be known until runtime,
        so use a variable length array.

        tests: Fix unsigned warning in duplicate.c

        linux: Fix gcc complains about signed sccanf variables

        dos: Fix gcc complaints when using boot_code pointer

        bsd: Fix gcc complaints when using boot_code pointer

2020-11-20  Shin'ichiro Kawasaki  <kawasaki@juno.dti.ne.jp>

        libparted: Fix warnings from GCC 8 -Wsuggest-attribute=const
        As GCC 8 suggests, add 'const' attribute to six functions. After adding
        const attributes, GCC suggested two more functions to add const
        attributes. Add const attributes to those functions also. In total, add
        const attributes to 8 functions.

        I read code of the functions and confirmed they are const: they examine
        only their arguments and have no effect other than return value.

2020-11-20  Shin'ichiro Kawasaki  <kawasaki@juno.dti.ne.jp>

        libparted: Fix warnings from GCC 8 -Wsuggest-attribute=pure
        As GCC 8 suggests, add 'pure' attribute to 17 functions. After adding
        pure attributes, GCC suggested three more functions to add pure
        attributes. Add pure attribute to those functions also. In total, add
        pure attributes to 20 functions.

        I read code of the functions and confirmed the 20 functions are pure:
        they have no effect except the return value, and their return value
        depend only on the parameters and/or global variables.

2020-11-05  Shin'ichiro Kawasaki  <kawasaki@juno.dti.ne.jp>

        libparted: Avoid a GCC warning for unused functions
        libparted/fs/r/hfs/hfs.c has a '#if 0' block. The block refers two
        functions hfsplus_clobber() and hfs_clobber(). It have GCC report a
        warning below.

          CC       r/hfs/hfs.lo
        r/hfs/hfs.c:343:1: warning: 'hfsplus_clobber' defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
          343 | hfsplus_clobber (PedGeometry* geom)
              | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

        To avoid the warning, add two more '#if 0' to disable the two functions.

2020-11-05  Shin'ichiro Kawasaki  <kawasaki@juno.dti.ne.jp>

        libparted: Fix warnings from GCC's -Wimplicit-fallthrough
        Two case statements have intentional fall-throughs but do not have
        comments to note it. GCC detects and warns those case statements. To
        avoid the warning, add fall-through comments.

2020-11-05  Shin'ichiro Kawasaki  <kawasaki@juno.dti.ne.jp>

        libparted: Fix warnings from GCC 8 -Wunused-variable and -Warray-bounds
        GCC 8 reports two warnings as follows.

        r/fat/bootsector.c: In function 'fat_boot_sector_set_boot_code':
        r/fat/bootsector.c:274:15: warning: unused variable 'fs_info' [-Wunused-variable]
          FatSpecific* fs_info = FAT_SPECIFIC (fs);
                       ^~~~~~~
        In function 'memcpy',
            inlined from 'fat_boot_sector_set_boot_code' at r/fat/bootsector.c:283:2:
        /usr/include/bits/string_fortified.h:34:10: warning: '__builtin_memcpy' forming offset [126, 128] is out of the bounds [0, 125] [-Warray-bounds]
           return __builtin___memcpy_chk (__dest, __src, __len, __bos0 (__dest));
                  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

        To avoid the warnings, remove the unused variable. Use strcpy in place of
        memcpy checking copy length.

2020-11-05  Shin'ichiro Kawasaki  <kawasaki@juno.dti.ne.jp>

        libparted: Fix a GCC warning -Wunused-but-set-variable
        GCC warns that a variable 'prealloc' defined for _generic_affs_probe() in
        fs/amiga/affs.c is set but its value is never used.

          CC       amiga/affs.lo
        amiga/affs.c: In function '_generic_affs_probe':
        amiga/affs.c:54:35: warning: variable 'prealloc' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
           54 |  int blocksize = 1, reserved = 2, prealloc = 0;
              |                                   ^~~~~~~~
        Remove the variable for simplicity and to avoid the warning.

2020-11-05  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        tests: Update all the dmsetup tests to use ENABLE_DEVICE_MAPPER

2020-11-05  Joe Slater  <joe.slater@windriver.com>

        t6001-psep: modify device manage support detection
        Use the method other tests use -- test an environment variable.

2020-11-05  Petr Lautrbach  <plautrba@redhat.com>

        Do not link to libsepol or libselinux
        Given that there's no code which would use it there's no reason to link
        to libsepol or libselinux even when they are available.

2020-09-01  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        tests: Add a test for resizepart on a busy partition
        This makes sure that the resizepart on a busy partition with the size on
        the cmdline will work.

2020-08-31  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        parted: Preserve resizepart End when prompted for busy partition
        Resizing busy partitions is allowed, but the user is prompted, which
        erases the cmdline. It is annoying to have to re-end the ending location
        after answering Yes. This saves the word and pushes it back onto the
        cmdline after the user agrees to resize the busy partition.

2020-05-04  Romain Perier  <romain.perier@gmail.com>

        tests: Add f2fs to the fs probe test

        Add support for the F2FS filesystem
        This adds a basic support for the Flash-Friendly File System. So
        we can manipulate the file system by using the PedFileSystem API and we
        can do basic device probing for autodetecting the current fs.

2020-03-09  Max Campbell  <max@0m.ax>

        Removed reference to ped_file_system_create
        Removed a reference to the removed function ped_file_system_create in
        the docs for ped_file_system_clobber.

2019-12-20  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        NEWS: Add bls_boot to new features

        libparted: Add support for bls_boot to GPT disks
        This sets the partition GUID to bc13c2ff-59e6-4262-a352-b275fd6f7172 to
        indicate that the partition is a Boot Loader Specification compatible
        /boot partition.

        libparted: Add support for MSDOS partition type bls_boot (0xea)
        This type is used by the Boot Loader Specification to identify a
        compatible /boot boot partition.

2019-12-20  Alper Nebi Yasak  <alpernebiyasak@gmail.com>

        libparted: Add ChromeOS Kernel partition flag
        This adds a GPT-only partition type flag, chromeos_kernel, for use on
        Chrome OS machines, with GUID FE3A2A5D-4F32-41A7-B725-ACCC3285A309.

        The firmware/bootloader in these machines relies on special images being
        written to partitions of this type. Among multiple such partitions, it
        decides which one it will boot from based on the GUID-specific partition
        attributes. This patch is not intended to and does not manipulate these
        bits.

        Google refers to these partitions as "ChromeOS kernel" partitions. They
        also define partitions for rootfs, firmware, and a reserved one; but
        these are not necessary for the boot flow and are not included here.

        Relevant ChromiumOS documentation:
        https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/disk-format

2019-12-16  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        Fix end_input usage in do_resizepart
        It needs to be set to NULL, since it may not get set by the call to
        command_line_get_sector

        tests: Test incomplete resizepart command

2019-10-11  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        maint: Add note about gpg key selection for gnupload

        Switch gpt-header-move and msdos-overlap to python3
        python2 is EOL on January 1, 2020 so it is time to switch to python3.

2019-10-10  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        maint: post-release administrivia
        * NEWS: Add header line for next release.
        * .prev-version: Record previous version.
        * cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Auto-update.

        version 3.3
        * NEWS: Record release date.

        NEWS: Note the fix for the s390 bug

2019-09-30  Viktor Mihajlovski  <mihajlov@linux.ibm.com>

        libparted/s390: Re-enabled virtio-attached DASD heuristics
        DASDs attached to KVM guest as virtio-blk devices are only handled
        properly, if the unique DASD geometry is detected. Commit id
        61dd3d4c5eb782eb43caa95342e63727db3f8281 has prevented proper geometry
        detection. Fixed by making sure that HDIO_GETGEO takes precedence
        on s390[x].

2019-08-21  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        README-release: Add link to upload registration page
        Without this you cannot use gnupload to send the new release tarball to
        the ftp servers.

2019-08-12  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        maint: post-release administrivia
        * NEWS: Add header line for next release.
        * .prev-version: Record previous version.
        * cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Auto-update.

        version 3.2.153
        * NEWS: Record release date.

        maint: Move NEWS template to line 3

        maint: Update copyright statements to 2019
        By running make update-copyright

        maint: Bump library REVISION number for release

        maint: Update bootstrap script from latest gnulib

        maint: Update to latest gnulib

2019-08-09  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        libparted: Fix bug in bsd.c alpha_bootblock_checksum
        I flubbed this in e35af6cbc43f5b279e6f0d65ccc904b1ac6c63d2 by trying to
        switch to using a pointer and ended up writing off the end. Switch the
        loop in alpha_bootblock_checksum back to use [i] index. It's easier
        to read anyway.

        doc: Create po directory if missing
        When running 'make distcheck' the directory tree it uses is created
        without the po directory. Create it if it is missing.

        dist-check.mk: Remove empty .deps directories
        Borrowed from coreutils commits 373ba16f332d and 40434e566e52

        Turn off c_prohibit_gnu_make_extensions

        po: Add argmatch.h

        bsd.c: Rewrite disklabel code to prevent gcc warnings
        Constructing a pointer into a char array results in warnings about casting
        changing alignment. This changes how the boot sector is handled by adding the
        label to BSDDiskData with the correct offset (64 bytes).

        Add gcc malloc attribute to ped_alloc and ped_calloc

2019-08-09  Shin'ichiro Kawasaki  <kawasaki@juno.dti.ne.jp>

        libparted: Replace abs() with llabs()
        GCC 9 fails to compile a few C source files which call abs() function.
        An example of the error messages was as follows:

          CC       dos.lo
        dos.c: In function '_best_solution':
        dos.c:1773:13: error: absolute value function 'abs' given an argument of type 'long long int' but has parameter of type 'int' which may cause truncation of value [-Werror=absolute-value]
         1773 |   a_delta = abs (part->geom.start - a->start);
              |             ^~~
        dos.c:1774:13: error: absolute value function 'abs' given an argument of type 'long long int' but has parameter of type 'int' which may cause truncation of value [-Werror=absolute-value]
         1774 |   b_delta = abs (part->geom.start - b->start);
              |             ^~~
        cc1: all warnings being treated as errors

        To avoid the errors, replace abs() function calls with llabs().

2019-08-09  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        sun.c: Aligned _SunRawLabel to 16bit boundary

        gpt.c: Drop cast of efi_guid_t to unsigned char *
        This confuses gcc, making it think the uuid_t is unaligned when it really comes
        from a efi_guid_t entry in _GPTDiskData.

        gpt.c: Align _GPTDiskData to 8 byte boundary

        dvh.c: Use memcpy instead of strncpy
        The strings are short, so using memcpy isn't much slower (if at all).  This
        fixes gcc complaining about strncpy possibly copying a non-terminated string.

2019-08-09  Shin'ichiro Kawasaki  <kawasaki@juno.dti.ne.jp>

        include/parted/unit.in.h: Specify const attribute to ped_unit_get_name()
        GCC 8 fails to compile libparted/unit.c with an error:

          CC       unit.lo
        unit.c:155:1: error: function might be candidate for attribute 'const' [-Werror=suggest-attribute=const]
         ped_unit_get_name (PedUnit unit)
         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
          CC       disk.lo
        cc1: all warnings being treated as errors

        Const attribute is required for the function ped_unit_get_name() because
        its return value is not affected by program status. To avoid the build
        failure, change attribute of the function from pure to const.

2019-08-09  Shin'ichiro Kawasaki  <kawasaki@juno.dti.ne.jp>

        libparted/labels/pt-tools.c: Fix gperf generated function attribute
        GCC 8 fails to compile libparted/labels/pt-tools.c with an error:

          CC       pt-tools.lo
        In file included from pt-tools.c:114:
        pt-tools.c: In function 'pt_limit_lookup':
        pt-limit.gperf:78:1: error: function might be candidate for attribute 'pure' [-Werror=suggest-attribute=pure]
        cc1: all warnings being treated as errors

        "Pure" attribute is required for the function pt_limit_lookup() because
        it does not change program status other than its return value.

        To avoid the build failure, add _GL_ATTRIBUTE_PURE to the function.
        The attribute cannot be added in libparted/gperf/pt-limit.c because it
        is generated by gperf during the build process. Instead, add the
        attribute in libparted/gperf/pt-tools.c which includes the generated
        function.

2019-08-09  Shin'ichiro Kawasaki  <kawasaki@juno.dti.ne.jp>

        configure.ac: Check ABI against ABI version 2
        GCC 8 fails to compile libparted/labels/aix.c with an error:

          CC       aix.lo
        cc1: error: -Wabi won't warn about anything [-Werror=abi]
        cc1: note: -Wabi warns about differences from the most up-to-date ABI, which is
        also used by default
        cc1: note: use e.g. -Wabi=11 to warn about changes from GCC 7
        cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
        make[4]: *** [Makefile:1250: aix.lo] Error 1

        To avoid the build failure, specify ABI version 2 to check ABI change
        from GCC 4.9.

2019-08-09  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        Adjust the gcc warnings to recognize FALLTHROUGH

        dos.c: Fix cast alignment error in maybe_FAT

        atari.c: Align the AtariRawTable on a 16bit boundary
        The casts to uint16_t need to know that this will be aligned. The struct is
        actually 512 bytes, so it normally does end up aligned. This just makes sure
        the compiler knows it and stops warning about the casts.

        Change 'time stamp' to 'timestamp'
        Caught by make syntax-check

        Fix double semi-colons
        Caught by make syntax-check

        Update syntax-check NEWS hash to cover 3.2 release notes.

        Fix syntax-check complaints about tests

        Remove trailing whitespace
        Caught by make syntax-check

        Remove unnecessary if before free checks
        Caught by make syntax-check

2019-08-09  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        configure.ac: Remove default -Werror flag
        Warnings as errors does not make sense with the current state of the
        codebase and it is making it difficult to do new releases.

        We should *show* the warnings, and handle them as time permits, but they
        should not block building a new release.

2019-08-09  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        README-release: Updating the release instructions

2019-08-05  A. Wilcox  <AWilcox@Wilcox-Tech.com>

        libparted: Fix endian bug in bsd.c
        You have to add 1 *before* doing the endian conversion, not after.

2019-07-15  Max Staudt  <max@enpas.org>

        libparted/fs/amiga/affs.c: Remove printf() to avoid confusion
        Currently, the affs code in libparted prints a debug line to stdout when
        an Amiga FFS partition is probed. This confuses tools that parse stdout.

        A prominent example is the partitioner (partman) in Debian's installer,
        which parses stdout from a tool (parted_devices) that uses libparted to
        scan the system's block devices. As of now, Debian cannot be installed
        on a typical Amiga:

          https://lists.debian.org/debian-68k/2019/07/msg00015.html

        This patch removes this unexpected printf().

        Cc: glaubitz@debian.org

2019-04-09  Michael Small  <smallm@sdf.org>

        Tests case for sigsegv when false nilfs2 superblock detected.

2019-04-09  Michael Small  <smallm@sdf.org>

        Avoid sigsegv in case 2nd nilfs2 superblock magic accidently found.
        1. is_valid_nilfs_sb: make sure the subtraction bytes - sumoff - 4
        won't give a negative number. That as the len argument to
        __efi_crc32() would give a very large number for the latter's for
        loop limit, since len is unsigned long.

        2. nilfs2_probe: Read and allocate enough sectors to hold a
        struct nilfs2_super_block.  is_valid_nilfs_sb() will be passing
        up to 1024 bytes to __efi_crc32(). If only one 512 byte sector
        had been allocated with alloca and read from disk that would cause
        reads off the the end of the stack even if bytes were more than
        sumoff - 4.

2019-02-11  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        Fix align-check help output

2019-01-31  Hans-Joachim Baader  <baader@gmx.net>

        Added support for Windows recovery partition (WINRE) on MBR
        Windows 10 uses a recovery partition which is sometimes marked with
        partition type 0x27 on MBR systems. It wasn't possible to handle such
        a partition with parted. Therefore the partition type PARTITION_MSFT_RECOVERY
        is now used properly also on MBR when the flag msftres is set.

2019-01-31  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        parted: Remove PED_ASSERT from ped_partition_set_name
        Asserts should only check logic, not wrap functions with side-effects.
        When compiled with --disable-debug this causes the name field of mkpart
        to be ignored.

2019-01-30  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        docs: Update GNU License version in parted .text files

2018-10-16  dann frazier  <dann.frazier@canonical.com>

        Read NVMe model names from sysfs
        parted currently shows the same generic model name for all NVMe devices:

          # parted /dev/nvme0n1 -s print | grep Model
          Model: NVMe Device (nvme)

        If the model information is available in sysfs, display that instead:

          # parted /dev/nvme0n1 -s print | grep Model
          Model: THNSN5512GPU7 NVMe TOSHIBA 512GB (nvme)

2018-10-16  dann frazier  <dann.frazier@canonical.com>

        Fix warnings from GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough
        All of these locations appear to have intentional fallthroughs. Add
        comments that GCC will detect to mute warnings w/ -Wimplicit-fallthrough.

2018-10-16  dann frazier  <dann.frazier@canonical.com>

        ped_unit_get_name: Resolve conflicting attributes 'const' and 'pure'
        The const and pure attributes conflict:

          error: ignoring attribute 'const' because it conflicts with attribute 'pure' [-Werror=attributes]

        pure functions may access global memory, const functions may not.
        ped_unit_get_name() accesses non-local variable unit_names, so drop const.

2018-10-16  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        Add udf to t1700-probe-fs and to the manpage
        If mkfs.udf is installed this will test to make sure that the filesystem
        is detected.

2018-10-16  Pali Rohár  <pali.rohar@gmail.com>

        libparted: Add support for MBR id, GPT GUID and detection of UDF filesystem
        This is needed for libparted based applications (like Gparted) to correctly
        choose MBR id and GPT GUID for UDF filesystem. MBR id for UDF is 0x07 and
        GPT GUID is Microsoft Basic Data, see why: https://serverfault.com/a/829172

        Without registering a new libparted fs code it is not possible to assign
        MBR id or GPT GUID.

        Detection of UDF filesystem is done by checking presence of UDF VSD (NSR02
        or NSR03 identifier) and UDF AVDP at expected locations (blocks 256, -257,
        -1, 512).

2018-10-16  Simon Xu  <xu.simon@oracle.com>

        Fix potential command line buffer overflow
        parted terminates with 'stack smashing detected' when fed with a long command
        line argument, and segfaults when the argument is long enough:

        root # /sbin/parted /dev/sda $(perl -e 'print "a"x265')
        *** stack smashing detected ***: /sbin/parted terminated
        ...
        Aborted

        root # /sbin/parted /dev/sda $(perl -e 'print "a"x328')
        *** stack smashing detected ***: /sbin/parted terminated
        ...
        Command History:
        Segmentation fault

        parted should be able to detect it and exit with error and usage messages.
        This also makes command line buffer overflow exploit more possible.  Fix it by
        adding length check in the condition of the for loop where command line
        arguments are copied.

2018-08-22  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        t6100-mdraid-partitions: Use v0.90 metadata for the test
        Newer metadata types use more disk space, causing the test to fail.

2018-08-22  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        parted.c: Make sure dev_name is freed
        If there was a problem with ped_device_get or ped_device_open it would not be freed.

        Related: rhbz#1602652

2018-08-22  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        parted.c: Always free peek_word
        If command_line_get_fs_type failed it would never free it, so put a free
        in both branches of the if.

        Related: rhbz#1602652

2018-08-22  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        Fix the length of several strncpy calls
        These need to be 1 less than the allocated size of the buffer, strncpy
        will fill shorter strings with zeros, but there needs to be room for at
        least one 0x00 at the end if the string is the same length as the buffer
        and has no terminating 0x00.

        Related: rhbz#1602652

2018-08-22  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        Modify gpt-header-move and msdos-overlap to work with py2 or py3
        Distributions are starting to remove python2 and only use python3.
        Modify these test scripts so that they will work with either python 2.7
        or python 3.X

2018-08-22  Ulrich Müller  <ulm@gentoo.org>

        libparted: Fix ending CHS address in PMBR.
        According to the UEFI specification version 2.7, Section 5.2.3,
        Table 16, the ending CHS address in the protective MBR should be set
        to 0xFFFFFF. This also agrees with the behaviour of fdisk from
        util-linux-2.32.

2018-06-12  Phillip Susi  <psusi@ubuntu.com>

        Fix atari label false positives
        The atari label gets false positives easily, so probe it after
        all other labels have said no.

2018-06-05  Phillip Susi  <psusi@ubuntu.com>

        Lift 512 byte restriction on fat resize
        As Colin Watson pointed out way back in 2014, when I removed the
        512 byte sector size restriction from the fs recognition code,
        I missed the same from the fat resize code.

2018-06-05  Colin Watson  <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>

        build: Remove unused traces of dynamic loading
        Now that file system operations have been removed from libparted,
        libreiserfs is no longer used.  Remove references to it, along with the
        dynamic loading build infrastructure which was only used for
        libreiserfs.

2018-06-05  Phillip Susi  <psusi@ubuntu.com>

        Fix resizepart iec unit end sector
        Fix resizepart to adjust the end to be -1 sector when using iec
        power of 2 units so that the next partition can start immediately
        following the new end, just like mkpart does.

2018-06-05  Niklas Hambüchen  <mail@nh2.me>

        mkpart: Allow negative start value when FS-TYPE is not given
        The manual had long documented that negative values are
        allowed for both start and end values, but until now negative
        start values were rejected if FS-TYPE was not given.

        Example:

          # parted --script -a optimal /dev/loop0 -- mklabel gpt mkpart primary ext4 -5MiB 100%
          (succeeds)

          # parted --script -a optimal /dev/loop0 -- mklabel gpt mkpart primary -5MiB 100%
          parted: invalid token: -5MiB
          Error: Expecting a file system type.

        This commit fixes the latter error.
        The issue was an insufficient lookahead in command line parsing,
        looking only for digits when skipping over FS-TYPE.
        The fix is including the minus '-' in the lookahead.

        Originally reported as Debian bug #880035:

          "parted: fails to use negative start value for 'mkpart' command without specyfying FS-TYPE"
          https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=880035

2018-06-05  Phillip Susi  <psusi@ubuntu.com>

        Fix set and disk_set to not crash when no flags are supported
        Loop labels and file images support no flags.  set and disk_set
        would prompt for a flag and accept any string since the list of
        flags was empty, then fail to look up an actual flag value, then
        throw an exception with a null string for the name of the flag,
        which would bug.

2018-05-07  Phillip Susi  <psusi@ubuntu.com>

        tests: fix t6100-mdraid-partitions
        The test was failing because it didn't wait for the md device
        to appear after creating it.

        Fix make check
        Make check failed due to some warnings treated as errors.  One was
        caused by a warning that a function could have the noreturn attribute.
        It seems that this had previously been disabled but gcc has changed
        the flag from -Wmissing-noreturn to -Wsuggest-attribute=noreturn.  The
        recently added volser.c test also caused a few warnings when not
        compiled on s390x because most of the functions were no used, so #if
        those out as well.

2018-04-04  Richard W.M. Jones  <rjones@redhat.com>

        linux: Include <sys/sysmacros.h> for major() macro.
        Since glibc 2.27 this header is required.

2017-12-19  Sebastian Parschauer  <sparschauer@suse.de>

        Add support for NVDIMM devices
        Recognize NVDIMM devices, so that "parted -s /dev/pmem7 p" now
        prints "Model: NVDIMM Device (pmem)" instead of
        "Model: Unknown (unknown)".

        In order for a device to be recognized as NVDIMM, it has to
        have a 'blkext' major number. But since this major can be
        used also by other device types, we also check that the device
        path contains 'pmem' as a substring.

        * NEWS: Mention the change
        * include/parted/device.h.in(PedDeviceType): Add PED_DEVICE_PMEM
        * libparted/arch/linux.c(_device_probe_type): Recognize NVDIMM devices.
        * libparted/arch/linux.c(linux_new): Handle NVDIMM devices.
        * parted/parted.c(do_print): Add "pmem" to list of transports.

2017-12-19  Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)  <arnout@mind.be>

        libparted/labels: link with libiconv if needed
        gpt.c uses iconv so it should link with it. Otherwise, on platforms
        where libiconv is a separate library, we get a link failure of parted:

            CCLD     parted
          ../libparted/.libs/libparted.so: undefined reference to `libiconv'
          ../libparted/.libs/libparted.so: undefined reference to `libiconv_open'
          ../libparted/.libs/libparted.so: undefined reference to `libiconv_close'

        Since iconv functionality is needed unconditionally (not only when
        gettext is enabled), AM_ICONV needs to be added to configure.ac.

2017-07-31  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        atari.c: Drop xlocale.h (#1476934)
        glibc no longer includes this header. locale.h should work just fine.

2017-06-06  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        libparted: Fix udev cookie leak in _dm_resize_partition
        Add a NEWS entry.

2017-05-25  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        libparted: Fix udev cookie leak in _dm_resize_partition
        The function is setting udev cookies, but not using them when waiting
        for the task. This results in leaked cookies, which can eventually
        exhaust the available number of semaphores.

        'dmsetup udevcookies' will show a cookie remaining afterwards, and 'ipcs -s'
        will show the semaphores in use.

        Also simplified the exit so that the task is always destroyed and memory
        is all freed in the same path.

        Resolves: rhbz#1455564

2017-05-02  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        tests/t1701-rescue-fs wait for the device to appear.
        After mkpart it needs to wait for the new partition to appear.

2017-05-02  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        Increase timeout for rmmod scsi_debug and make it a framework failure
        On some hardware scsi_debug can take longer to remove. If this fails it
        inevitably results in the next test failing since it cannot load
        scsi_debug.

        Increse the timeout to 40 loops (8 seconds), and if it hits the limit
        without succeeding call framework_failure_

2017-05-01  Wang Dong  <dongdwdw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

        libparted/dasd: add test cases for the new fdasd functions
        The test case uses a temporary file in libparted/tests under
        Check framwork.It can be issued by "make check" in the test dir.

        libparted/dasd: add an exception for changing DASD-LDL partition table
        The partition table of DASD-LDL device with the dasd disk label
        should not be changed according to its character in Linux.
        When the user tries to modify the partition table, an exception
        will be raised to inform user of this character.

        libpartd/dasd: improve flag processing for DASD-LDL
        DASD-LDL does not support flag now, so all the flags are
        unavailable to it.

2017-05-01  Wang Dong  <dongdwdw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

        parted/ui: remove unneccesary information of command line
        When some command fails, the information still exists in
        command_line buffer. When in command mode or interactive mode,
        if an interactive exception prompts, the remained information
        will be processed as option from user. This will raise some other
        information or even unexpected results. So before getting option
        input from user, clean the command line buffer.

        Example: When the disk label is invalid and user tries to make
                 new partition on the device with command like,
                 mkpart 0 50%. Then parted will raise an exception
                 telling an invalid disk label found and whether to correct it.
                 But at this time 0 as the input of mkpart will be
                 considered as the option input for the exception(yes/no).
                 So one more exception will raised with error information.

2017-05-01  Wang Dong  <dongdwdw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

        parted: check the name of partition first when to name a partition
        The previous function works well for the labels supporting naming
        partition, but not for these which don't. If the disk label does not
        support partition naming, two exceptions will be raised. Even after the first
        error indicates it does not support name, parted yet asks user for
        name in iteractive mode.

        First check if the disk label supports partition naming and if it
        does, it will continue; otherwise, it will stop and raise an
        exception.

2017-05-01  Sebastian Parschauer  <sparschauer@suse.de>

        Add support for RAM drives
        Recognize RAM drives, so "parted -s /dev/ram0 p" now prints
        "RAM Drive (brd)" instead of "Model: Unknown (unknown)".

        In order for a device to be recognized as RAM drive, it has to
        have major number 1. Also the BLKFLSBUF ioctl shouldn't be used
        on RAM drives as it is used to zero the device.

        * NEWS: Mention the change
        * include/parted/device.h.in(PedDeviceType): Add PED_DEVICE_RAM.
        * libparted/arch/linux.c(RAM_MAJOR): New define.
        * libparted/arch/linux.c(_device_probe_type): Recognize RAM drives.
        * libparted/arch/linux.c(linux_new): Handle RAM drives.
        * libparted/arch/linux.c(_flush_cache): Skip RAM drives.
        * parted/parted.c(do_print): Add "brd" to list of transports.

2017-05-01  Wang Dong  <dongdwdw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

        clean the disk information when commands fail in interactive mode.
        parted always reads disk information to memory before any
        operations. The disk that user operates is actually
        a copy of real one in memory. When the information in memory
        is changed, it will commit the memory to device to update the
        disk information.

        Once the disk information is read, parted will never re-read it
        again unless another device is loaded or the device is re-read.
        Above work has been done in commit 7eac058 (parted: don't reload
        partition table on every command)

        Each command of parted always commits the memory when it succeeds.
        Then the disk information on device and in memory are the same.
        But when it fails, they might be different. User will be confused
        by this, and sometimes get undesired result with the contaminated
        memory. This memory should be cleaned if some command fails.
        Then the command followed will re-read the disk.

2017-05-01  Wang Dong  <dongdwdw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

        parted: fix wrong error label jump in mkpart
        When the user makes a new partition, if parted fails to add the
        partition to disk, it jumps to wrong error label. In this
        situation, this new partition actually is not a node in disk
        data structure. But in the wrong error label, it pretends this
        is a node and removes it as a list node, leading to other
        partition in this disk deleted. This might lead to a memory leak.
        Because if there are other partitions, it just removes them from
        list without releasing the resource. And this also leads to different
        disk information between memory and device. This is confusing.

        But when the new partition is added to disk successfully and if
        any operations followed fail, this partition should be removed from
        disk and destroyed.

2017-05-01  Wang Dong  <dongdwdw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

        parted: fix crash due to improper partition number input
        When the user makes a new partition, if parted fails to add the
        partition to disk, it jumps to wrong error label. In this
        situation, this new partition actually is not a node in disk
        data structure. But in the wrong error label, it pretends this
        is a node and removes it as a list node, leading to other
        partition in this disk deleted. This might lead to a memory leak.
        Because if there are other partitions, it just removes them from
        list without releasing the resource. And this also leads to different
        disk information between memory and device. This is confusing.

        But when the new partition is added to disk successfully and if
        any operations followed fail, this partition should be removed from
        disk and destroyed.

2017-04-17  Phillip Susi  <psusi@ubuntu.com>

        Fix crash when localized
        The _() macro is only for translating string literals.  It was
        incorrectly applied to a runtime string representing the name
        of a partition and this sometimes caused a gettext crash.

2017-01-19  Sebastian Rasmussen  <sebras@gmail.com>

        libparted: Fix typo in hfs error message

2016-12-22  Laurent Vivier  <laurent@vivier.eu>

        libparted: Fix MacOS boot support
        boot_region_length (or BootSize in the MacOS dialect) is the length
        of the driver code in the driver partition. This length is used
        to compute the checksum of the driver.

        libparted updates this value by setting the whole size of the partition
        without computing the checksum of the driver using this size.

        As the checksum is wrong, the driver is broken and cannot be loaded
        by the MacOS ROM, and thus the disk is not bootable anymore.

        Moreover, parted try to update the driver list and makes it disappear.

        As parted is not able to insert a driver in a partition,
        the driver is generally inserted by the Apple HD Tool,
        this patch removes the line updating the driver size.

        We also simplify the driver list scan and fix endianess use.

        This has been tested... and it works, now.

        I have updated a bootable disk with parted on x86_64 and
        then been able to boot it (again) on a Mac LC III.

2016-12-22  John Paul Adrian Glaubitz  <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>

        libparted: Add support for atari partition tables

        libparted:tests: Move get_sector_size() to common.c
        Moving get_sector_size() from disk.c to common.c allows
        us to use it in _implemented_disk_label() to test for
        512-byte sectors. This change is required to be able to
        enable this test for atari partition tables for which
        support is added in a follow-up patch.

2016-12-22  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        tests: Update t0220 and t0280 for the swap flag.

2016-12-22  Arvin Schnell  <aschnell@suse.com>

        libparted: set swap flag on GPT partitions
        The filesystem type is still detected as befor, but now setting the
        'swap' flag will set the partition GUID to PARTITION_SWAP_GUID.

2016-12-22  Wang Dong  <dongdwdw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

        libparted/dasd: add test cases for the new fdasd functions
        The test case uses a temporary file in libparted/tests under
        Check framwork. It can be issued by "make check" in the test dir.

2016-12-22  Wang Dong  <dongdwdw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

        libparted/dasd: add new fdasd functions
        Introduce a set of new functions from the fdasd utility of the s390-tools
        to keep the code base in parted and s390-tools in sync.

        These new functions are:
          fdasd_check_volser():  validate the volser input
          fdasd_get_volser():    get volume serial (volser)
          fdasd_change_volser(): change volser with string
          fdasd_reuse_vtoc():    re-create vtoc labels based on the existing vtoc

2016-12-22  Wang Dong  <dongdwdw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

        libparted/dasd: update and improve fdasd functions
        Update the fdasd_anchor_t data structure and the fdasd_cleanup()
        function. Also correct vtoc_changed and vlabel_changed accounting
        because they are important to rewrite vtoc to save the changes.

        Wang Dong <dongdwdw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
        Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

2016-12-22  Wang Dong  <dongdwdw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

        libparted/dasd: unify vtoc handling for cdl/ldl
        Merge volume label cdl and ldl. It is convenient to manipulate
        the same structure. Also remove unused arguments in the functions.

2016-12-22  Sebastian Parschauer  <sparschauer@suse.de>

        libparted: Don't warn if no HDIO_GET_IDENTITY ioctl
        Fully virtualized Xen VMs (HVM) use Linux IDE devices which don't
        support the HDIO_GET_IDENTITY ioctl. EINVAL is returned, a warning
        is printed and the device model is set to "Generic IDE" in that
        case. The problem is seeing the warning all the time. So drop it
        for this case.

2016-12-22  Petr Uzel  <petr.uzel@suse.cz>

        libparted: Fix starting CHS in protective MBR
        The CHS address for protective partition start in protective MBR
        should be 0/0/2, according to UEFI spec (v2.6, section 5.2.1).

        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (_write_pmbr): Fix starting CHS address

        Reported by Steffen Winterfeldt in https://bugzilla.suse.com/969165

2016-12-22  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        tests: Stop timing t9040 (#1172675)
        parted doesn't have any control over how long this takes, there is no
        reason to consider this a parted bug if it takes longer than expected.

        Resolves: rhbz#1172675

2016-12-22  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        partprobe: Open the device once for probing
        Previously there were 3 open/close pairs for the device, which may
        result in triggering extra udev actions. Instead, open it once at the
        start of process_dev and close it at the end.

        tests: Set optimal blocks to 64 for scsi_debug devices
        The Linux kernel 4.5 changed the optimal blocks count from 64 to 1024
        This causes tests using scsi_debug devices to fail because of alignment
        issues. Set the opt_blks to 64 so that we have consistent behavior
        across kernels.

2016-12-22  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        doc: Add information about quoting
        Some shells (bash) will strip off the " so it needs to be
        wrapped in '' to prevent it. eg.

        parted -s ./disk.img mkpart '"EFI System Partition"' 1M 500M

2016-12-22  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        doc: Cleanup mkpart manpage entry (#1183077)

2016-12-22  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        tests: Fix t1700 failing on a host with a 4k xfs filesystem (#1260664)
        The problem is that mkfs.xfs won't work if the file it is trying to
        create is on a filesystem with a sector size larger than the passed
        -ssize value. So a host with 4k disks (eg. s390) and the xfs filesystem
        will fail with the error message:
            illegal sector size 512; hw sector is 4096

        Failures setting up the environment for the test aren't parted bugs.
        This stops treating mkfs and dd errors as test failures, skipping the fs
        and logging a warning.

        Related: rhbz#1260664

2016-12-22  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        tests: Add wait to t9042 (#1257415)
        Also make the new disklabel and first partition all in one step to
        prevent udev problems.

        Resolves: rhbz#1257415

2016-12-22  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        tests: Add udevadm settle to wait_for_ loop (#1260664)
        Sometimes the device will vanish after the wait_for_dev_to_appear exits.
        Add udevadm settle in an attempt to make sure the udev system is done
        flapping around and the device will stay in place.

        Related: rhbz#1260664

2016-10-04  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        tests: t3310-flags.sh skip pc98 when sector size != 512

2016-10-04  Mike Fleetwood  <mike.fleetwood@googlemail.com>

        tests: t3310-flags.sh: Add tests for remaining table types
        Add test of flags for remaining table types: aix, amiga, pc98, sun and
        loop.  Note that support of writing AIX tables is not yet implemented in
        parted and LOOP tables don't support partitions nor flags.

2016-10-04  Mike Fleetwood  <mike.fleetwood@googlemail.com>

        tests: t3310-flags.sh: Add test for dvh table flags
        DVH table reserves the first 4 MiB for the volume header information so
        move the created test partition to immediately after that.

        Exclude testing the boot flag as that can only be set on logical
        partitions and this test script only uses primary partitions so far.

2016-10-04  Mike Fleetwood  <mike.fleetwood@googlemail.com>

        tests: t3310-flags.sh: Add test for mac table flags
        MAC partition table reserves partition 1 for the partition map
        partition, so the created test partition will be number 2.  Adapt
        accordingly.

        Setting flags 'root' and 'swap' also sets the partition name to 'root'
        and 'swap' respectively, so no longer match the partition name in
        extract_flags().

        Don't test lvm and raid flags as they fail to be cleared with a single
        set off command.  See FIXME comment in the test for more details.

2016-10-04  Mike Fleetwood  <mike.fleetwood@googlemail.com>

        libparted: Remove commented local variable from bsd_partition_set_flag()

2016-10-04  Mike Fleetwood  <mike.fleetwood@googlemail.com>

        libparted: Fix to report success when setting lvm flag on bsd table
        bsd_partition_set_flag() was falling through in the lvm flag case and
        returning failure.  Fix this by adding missing return 1 (success) like
        for the other flags.

        Found as a result of this bug reported by Timo Riikonen:
        https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769831

2016-10-04  Mike Fleetwood  <mike.fleetwood@googlemail.com>

        tests: t3310-flags.sh: Add test for bsd table flags

        tests: t3310-flags.sh: Stop excluding certain flags from being tested
        Also grep for whole words, grep -w, to avoid flag 'boot' being matched
        as a substring of flag 'legacy_boot'.

2016-10-04  Mike Fleetwood  <mike.fleetwood@googlemail.com>

        tests: t3310-flags.sh: Query libparted for all flags to be tested
        Replace scanning the documentation for an incomplete list of flags with
        querying libparted for the complete list of supported flags via the
        added helper print-flags.

        Correct $ME -> $ME_ in the warning messages.  Improve the warning
        messages by including the table type and flag name not correctly set or
        cleared.

        Plus minor changes:
        (1) use slightly longer variable name primary_or_name;
        (2) use longer test partition name PTNNAME; and
        (3) stop shortening parted unit command to u.

2016-09-30  Petr Uzel  <petr.uzel@suse.cz>

        libparted: only IEC units are treated as exact
        If the user specifies start/end of the partition as a unit,
        whose size happens to be power of two, we treat that as
        exact address with exact placement.

        Recently, commit 01900e056ec25083 added an exception for
        percent units.

        This logic however can fail also for cylinders, e.g. on DASD FBA disks,
        which report CHS=(*, 128, 16) geometry, hence once cylinder is 1 MiB.
        With cylinders as units, exact placement is not what the user wants.

        Instead of adding cylinders to the blacklist, let's instead
        whitelist units which should trigger exact placement.

        * libparted/unit.c (is_power_of_2): Remove now unused function.
        (ped_unit_parse_custom): Specify which units trigger exact placement.
        * NEWS (Bug Fixes): Mention this.

2016-09-30  Gareth Randall  <gareth.randall@virgin.net>

        docs: Improve partition description in parted.texi

2016-06-23  Petr Uzel  <petr.uzel@suse.cz>

        Add support for NVMe devices
        Recognize NVMe Devices, so "parted -s /dev/nvme0n1" now prints
        "NVMe Device (nvme)" instead of "Model: Unknown (unknown)".

        In order for a device to be recognized as NVMe, it has to
        have a 'blkext' major number. But since this major can be
        used also by other device types, we also check the device
        path contains 'nvme' as a substring.

        * NEWS: Mention the change
        * include/parted/device.h.in(PedDeviceType): Add PED_DEVICE_NVME
        * libparted/arch/linux.c(BLKEXT_MAJOR): New define.
        * libparted/arch/linux.c(_is_blkext_major): New function.
        * libparted/arch/linux.c(_device_probe_type): Recognize NVMe devices.
        * libparted/arch/linux.c(linux_new): Handle NVMe devices.
        * parted/parted.c(do_print): Add "nvme" to list of transports.

2016-06-23  Wang Dong  <dongdwdw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

        libparted/dasd: correct the offset where the first partition begins
        The start point of first partition must start at least from the third
        track of DASD, due to the existence of metadata in the first two track.
        The previous constraint just sets all the device to be partitioned.
        So when the start point of the first partition start before the third
        track, (For example if it starts from.0) parted will exit abruptly.
        And this kind of job must be done with constraint explicitly.

        Then the constraint is modified to exclude the first two tracks and
        to make the first partition start from the third track by default.

        Reviewed-by: Viktor Mihajlovski <mihajlov@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

2016-05-06  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        libparted: Fix probing AIX disks on other arches
        Not a likely scenario, but make sure the magic check works everywhere.

2016-04-15  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        libparted: Remove fdasd geometry code from alloc_metadata (#1244833)
        commit db20944f changed how the trailing_metadata_end is calculated in
        dasd_alloc_metadata, removing the need for setting up the anchor struct.
        But dasd_alloc_metadata can be called in various contexts, and the
        arch_specific->fd may or may not be valid during these calls. This can
        result in unpredictable crashes when it uses a stale fd and tries to run
        the file image code in fdasd_get_geometry instead of the device code.

        The solution is to just drop the unneeded code, and to remember that
        arch_specific->fd should only be used when ped_device_open has first
        been called.

        Resolves: rhbz#1244833

2016-04-14  Phillip Susi  <psusi@ubuntu.com>

        Add NEWS entry for fat resize fix

2016-04-14  Gustavo Zacarias  <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>

        bug#17883: [PATCH] configure.ac: uclinux is also linux
        uclinux is used in the tuple for some noMMU linux builds like Blackfin
        FLAT output, so accept it as linux too.

2016-04-14  Curtis Gedak  <gedakc@gmail.com>

        lib-fs-resize: Fix recognition of FAT file system after resizing
        When resizing a FAT partition, an extra boot_sector memory allocation
        was causing the original boot_sector information to be lost.  The
        resulting FAT file system was still recognized by GNU/Linux, but not
        recognized by the proprietary Windows operating system.

        The problem with Windows FAT32 recognition was introduced with:

          Fix filesystem detection on non 512 byte sectors
          80678bdd957cf49a9ccfc8b88ba3fb8b4c63fc12

        Fix by removing the extra boot_sector memory allocation.

        Note that since parted-3.0 another code path to the extra memory
        allocation of fat_create(...) via ped_file_system_create(...) is
        inaccessible.  In an effort to maintain the ability to re-instate the
        code, add a new boot_sector memory allocation where it is needed in
        the alternate code path.

        GNU bug report logs - #22266
        [libparted] jump instruction and boot code is corrupted with random
        bytes after fat is resized
        http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=22266

2016-04-12  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        parted: Display details of partition alignment failure (#726856)
        When alignment for a new partition fails it isn't always obvious why it
        failed. This adds printing the reason for the failure, in the form of:

        start % grain != offset

        This modifies align-check in interactive mode to print the alignment the
        error details if it isn't aligned. Script mode behavior is unchanged.

        Also cleanup pointer usage and handle asprintf failure by using a constant
        string in the error report - "unknown (malloc failure)".

2016-04-12  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        docs: Add list of filesystems for fs-type (#1311596)
        Add the most common filesystem types to the parted manpage.

        Resolves: rhbz#1311596

2016-04-12  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        Add libparted-fs-resize.pc
        Add a pkgconfig file for the filesystem resize library.

2016-04-10  Steven Lang  <Steven.Lang@hgst.com>

        Use disk geometry as basis for ext2 sector sizes.
        When creating the geom for probed ext2 based filesystems, the
        size was being reported in 512 byte sectors, regardless of what
        the actual sector size of the device is.

2016-04-10  Phillip Susi  <psusi@ubuntu.com>

        parted: fix the rescue command
        The rescue command often failed to locate a filesystem due to it
        leaving cylinder alignment on, which snapped the allowed bounds
        of the filesystem down to the next lower cylinder boundary,
        causing the detected filesystem to be rejected due to not fitting.

2016-03-18  David Cantrell  <dcantrell@redhat.com>

        Use BLKSSZGET to get device sector size in _device_probe_geometry()
        Seen on certain newer devices (such as >32G SDHC memory cards), the
        HDIO_GETGEO ioctl does not return useful information.  The libparted
        code records hardware and bios reported geometry information, but all of
        that is largely unusable these days.  The information is used in the
        PedConstraint code for aligning partitions.  The sector count is most
        useful.  Rather than only trying HDIO_GETGIO, first initialize the
        bios_geom fields to 0 and then use BLKSSZGET to capture the sector size.
        If that fails, try HDIO_GETGEO.  And if that fails, raise a warning and
        fall back on the library's default sector size macro.

        This problem showed up on Raspberry Pi devices where users were
        attempting to grow a partition to fill the SDHC card.  Using the
        optimal_aligned_constraint returned invalid geometry information
        (98703359 instead of 124735488 sectors).  The issue was reported here:

            https://github.com/fedberry/fedberry/issues/8

        And to the pyparted project:

            https://github.com/rhinstaller/pyparted/issues/25

        I've applied this patch locally to parted, rebuilt, and reinstalled it
        and it is working correctly for the problem SDHC cards.

2016-03-07  Mike Fleetwood  <mike.fleetwood@googlemail.com>

        tests: t3000-resize-fs.sh: Add very deep directory
        Create 500 deep directory tree, with longest name of 4000 characters, to
        the file system being resized to test the fix to prevent crash when
        resizing a FAT file system with such a long path.

2016-03-07  Mike Fleetwood  <mike.fleetwood@googlemail.com>

        lib-fs-resize: Prevent crash resizing FAT with very deep directories
        Resizing a FAT file system crashes in libparted/fs/r/fat/count.c
        flag_traverse_dir() if the length of any path name in the file system
        overflows the 512 byte file_name local buffer.  Increase buffer to 4096,
        PATH_MAX on Linux.

        Reported in
        https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=762448

2016-02-09  Viktor Mihajlovski  <mihajlov@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

        fdasd.c: Safeguard against geometry misprobing
        Fixes an issue with parted print being run against a logical
        volume realised by extents on a physical volume residing on
        a DASD.
        We must make sure that geometry, device blocksize and DASD
        attributes are present before we start format verifications
        If any of it is missing this is not a DASD.

2015-10-29  Colin Watson  <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>

        parted: fix build error on s390
        The preceding dasd probing patches have introduced a compile error
        when building with blkid support. Fixed by reordering function
        definitions.

2015-10-27  Viktor Mihajlovski  <mihajlov@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

        dasd: enhance device probing
        Probe for all device/transport types as every block device
        could be a DASD on s390.

        Since the calculation of the minimum and optimum alignment
        is different between DASDs and common fixed block disks
        we need a means other than dev->type == PED_DEVICE_DASD.
        For that purpose a static function _ped_device_like_dasd()
        offering a DASD detection heuristic has been added to
        arch/linux.c.

        By always providing arch-specific alignment functions the
        need for DASD-specific code could be removed from device.c.

        Observe fdasd_get_geometry return code for proper error
        handling.

        Remove the obsolete API check as we no longer require the
        DASD-specific IOCTLs.

        Acked-by: Stefan Haberland <stefan.haberland@de.ibm.com>

2015-10-27  Viktor Mihajlovski  <mihajlov@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

        fdasd: geometry handling updated from upstream s390-tools
        Remove the necessity for DASD-specific ioctls for partition handling.
        This allows to correctly handle DASD-backed virtio block devices.

        Note that this is necessary because virtio is just the transport.
        A DASD, even if provided via virtio, still has it's unique
        characteristics, which means that only traditional DASD partition
        table formats can be used (no MBR, GPT, or similar).

        Use bzero for initialization to make sure all struct members are
        properly cleared. Also changed partition list handling code to be
        more similar to upstream s390-tools fdasd.

        Further, enhanced error handling capabilities by providing a
        return code by fdasd_get_geometry.

        Code is largely backported from s390-tools project.

        Acked-by: Stefan Haberland <stefan.haberland@de.ibm.com>

2015-10-09  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        tests: Use wait_for_dev_to_ functions
        Recent changes to udev have made some long-standing problems appear more
        frequently. udev executes various actions when changes are made to
        devices. Sometimes this can result in device nodes not appearing
        immediately. Other times it can result in EBUSY being returned. This
        patch only addresses devices that are slow to appear/disappear.

        It is best to use the wait_for_dev_to_appear_ and
        wait_for_dev_to_disappear_ functions than to test for existance. These
        will loop and wait for up to 2 seconds for it to appear.

        This also changes t9041 to fail if mkfs doesn't work since using skip
        here may hide cases when the device node doesn't appear.

2015-10-09  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        libparted: Use read only when probing devices on linux (#1245144)
        When a device is opened for RW closing it can trigger other actions,
        like udev scanning it for partition changes. Use read only for the
        init_* methods and RW for actual changes to the device.

        This adds _device_open which takes mode flags as an argument and turns
        linux_open into a wrapper for it with RW_MODE.

        _device_open_ro is added to open the device with RD_MODE and increment
        the open_counter. This is used in the init_* functions.

        _device_close is a wrapper around linux_close that decrements the
        open_counter and is used in the init_* functions.

        All of these changes are self-contained with no external API changes.
        The only visible change in behavior is that when a new PedDevice is
        created the device is opened in RO_MODE instead of RW_MODE.

        Resolves: rhbz#1245144

2015-08-07  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        libparted: Fix misspelling in hfs exception string

2015-08-07  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        libparted: Stop converting . in sys path to /
        In _probe_sys_block it claimed that ! and . are replaced by / in sys
        paths, but according to the kernel code only ! is replaced (for cciss
        devices).

        This is now causing problems with libnvdimm devices, the details are
        here:

        https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/djbw/nvdimm.git/tree/Documentation/nvdimm/nvdimm.txt?h=libnvdimm-for-next

2015-08-05  Amarnath Valluri  <amarnath.valluri@intel.com>

        libparted: Fix possible memory leaks
        * libparted/fs/r/fat/resize.c(fat_convert_directory): Possible leak
          of sub_old_dir_trav or sub_new_dir_trav in error case.
        * libparted/fs/r/fat/resize.c(fat_construct_converted_tree ): Possible
          leak of new_trav_info or old_trav_info in error case.

2015-08-03  Amarnath Valluri  <amarnath.valluri@intel.com>

        libparted: Fix memory leaks
        * libparted/fs/r/hfs/hfs.c(hfsplus_resize): Don't leak embedded_geom
          when volume resizing failed.
        * libparted/fs/fat/fat.c(fat_create): Don't leake fs in-case of
          fat_write_clustor failuer.
        * libparted/arch/linux.c(_kernel_get_partition_start_and_length): Don't leak
          dev_fd file descriptor.

        UI: Avoid memory leaks.
        * parted/ui.c(command_line_get_sector): Don't leak input string.
        * parted/ui.c(command_line_prompt_words): Don't leak _def string in
          opt script mode.

2015-07-13  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        parted: Fix crash with name command and no disklabel (#1226067)
        A typo (the last I think) from commit 7eac058 wasn't properly checking
        the result of ped_disk_new so it could crash if there was no disklabel
        on the device.

2015-07-13  Alexander Todorov  <atodorov@redhat.com>

        Fwd: [PATCH 2/2] add verbose test documentation

        merge HACKING and README-hacking

2015-07-02  Sergei Antonov  <saproj@gmail.com>

        mac: copy partition type and name correctly
        Use strncpy() instead of strcpy() to copy partition name and type.
        This prevents possible buffer overflow, because the source string
        occupies up to 33 bytes with a terminating null.

        Static analysis tools complain about the code as it is now:
          Function: _generate_raw_part
          Destination buffer too small
          string_overflow: You might overrun the 32 byte destination string
          part_map_entry->type by writing 33 bytes from mac_part_data->system_name
          (Destination buffer too small, line 933)

        Cc: Sabas Rosales, Blanca E <blanca.e.sabas.rosales@intel.com>

2015-06-26  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        libparted: BLKPG_RESIZE_PARTITION uses bytes, not sectors (#1135493)
        This results in the extended partition vanishing after adding another
        partition.

        Resolves: rhbz#1135493

2015-06-26  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        tests: Make sure the extended partition length is correct (#1135493)
        parted tells the kernel the wrong length when reporting a resize of an
        extended partition. Make sure the length is 2 for 512b sectors and 1
        sector for larger.

2015-06-24  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        doc: Fix url for LWN article
        Removed an extra http:// from it.

2015-06-24  Alexander Todorov  <atodorov@redhat.com>

        tests: Fall back to C.UTF-8 if no en_US.utf8 available
        Not all distributions (Fedora) have C.UTF-8 so first try en_US.utf8 and fall
        back to it. This may still fail if neither exist.

        * tests/t0251-gpt-unicode.sh: Test for en_US and fall back to C.UTF-8

2015-06-22  Felix Janda  <felix.janda@posteo.de>

        libparted/fs/xfs/platform_defs.h: Include <fcntl.h> for loff_t
        This is needed for compilation with musl libc

        Suggested-by: Travis Tilley <ttilley@gmail.com>

2015-06-22  Felix Janda  <felix.janda@posteo.de>

        libparted/arch/linux.c: Compile without ENABLE_DEVICE_MAPPER

2015-03-23  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        Update manpage NAME so whatis will work

2015-02-06  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        libparted: device mapper uses 512b sectors
        device mapper doesn't use the device's sector size when creating a
        table. It always uses 512b units. This causes partitions to be created
        8x smaller than expected on devices with 4906b sectors.

2015-02-05  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        tests: Add a test for device-mapper partition sizes
        device-mapper uses 512b sector units, not device specific sector sizes.
        This test ensures that the correct partition size is created, no matter
        what the device's sector size is.

2015-01-13  Phillip Susi  <psusi@ubuntu.com>

        parted: don't crash in disk_set when disk label not found
        Due to a typeo in commit 7eac058 "parted: don't reload partition
        table on every command", the disk_set command would crash if
        a disk label was not found.

2014-11-10  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        tests: Change minimum size to 256MiB
        btrfs on ppc64 wants 136MiB so expand the minimum temp filesystem size
        for the t1700-probe-fs test.

2014-10-27  Mike Fleetwood  <mike.fleetwood@googlemail.com>

        tests: t3000-resize-fs.sh: Add requirement on mkfs.vfat
        Add test skipping requirement on mkfs.vfat for the FAT32 and FAT16 file
        system resizing tests.  This matches existing test skipping requirement
        on mkfs.hfs for the hfs+ file system.

        * tests/t3000-resize-fs.sh: Also correct skip_test_ to skip_.
        * tests/t-lib-helpers.sh: Also update message for requirement of hfs.

2014-10-27  Mike Fleetwood  <mike.fleetwood@googlemail.com>

        tests: t3000-resize-fs.sh: Add FAT16 resizing test
        Add FAT16 resizing test so that we don't regress again.

2014-10-27  Mike Fleetwood  <mike.fleetwood@googlemail.com>

        lib-fs-resize: Prevent crash resizing FAT16 file systems
        Resizing FAT16 file system crashes in libparted/fs/r/fat/resize.c
        create_resize_context() because it was dereferencing NULL pointer
        fs_info->info_sector to copy the info_sector.

        Only FAT32 file systems have info_sector populated by fat_open() ->
        fat_info_sector_read().  FAT12 and FAT16 file systems don't have an
        info_sector so pointer fs_info->info_sector remains assigned NULL from
        fat_alloc().  When resizing a FAT file system create_resize_context()
        was always dereferencing fs_info->info_sector to memory copy the
        info_sector, hence it crashed for FAT12 and FAT16.

        Make create_resize_context() only copy the info_sector for FAT32 file
        systems.

        Reported by Christian Hesse in
        https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735669

2014-09-20  Heiko Becker  <heirecka@exherbo.org>

        libparted: also link to UUID_LIBS
        * libparted/Makefile.am (libparted_la_LIBADD): Add UUID_LIBS.
        This fixes building parted with the gold linker.

2014-07-28  Phillip Susi  <psusi@ubuntu.com>

        maint: post-release administrivia
        * NEWS: Add header line for next release.
        * .prev-version: Record previous version.
        * cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Auto-update.

        version 3.2
        * NEWS: Record release date.

2014-07-27  Phillip Susi  <psusi@ubuntu.com>

        Bump library REVISION number for release

        tests: don't require en_US locale in t0251-gpt-unicode.sh
        Switch from en_US.UTF-8 to C.UTF-8 so the test does not fail on systems
        that do not have the en_US locale installed.

2014-06-23  Jim Meyering  <meyering@fb.com>

        maint: correct a POT-file updating rule
        * doc/C/Makefile.am (updatepo): If there is no po/$name.pot,
        create an empty one.  Reported by Philip Susi.

2014-06-15  Phillip Susi  <psusi@ubuntu.com>

        tests: fix t9020-alignment.sh
        This test was refering to print-alignment by absolute path, which
        broke building with a different object directory, causing
        make distcheck to fail.

        Document resizepart command

        parted: Add stub resize command for backward compatibility
        To make sure that older scripts trying to use the resize command do not
        accidentally run the new resizepart command by mistake, this undocumented
        stub command will throw an error if called.

        parted: Allow undocumented commands
        Have command_print_summary print nothing if the command summary is NULL.
        This allows for a command to be registered, but not documented in the
        output of help.

        parted: make _partition_warn_busy actually a warning instead of an error
        This function was throwing a PED_EXCEPTION_ERROR with only the
        PED_EXCEPTION_CANCEL option.  Converted to a PED_EXCEPTION_WARNING
        with the option to continue anyhow.

        libparted: Add support for partition resize
        When resizing a partition ( same partition number, same
        start sector, different end sector ), try to use the
        new BLKPG_RES_PARTITION request to update the kernel
        partition table with the new size.  Also handle resizing
        devmapper targets.

2014-06-15  Petr Uzel  <petr.uzel@suse.cz>

        tests: excersise resize command
        a lot of TODOs

        parted: add resizepart command
        Add resizepart command to resize ( change the end position ) an existing
        partition.  Note that it does nothing to a filesystem in the partition.

2014-06-15  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        Fix python test scripts for distribution
        make distcheck was failing because these scripts were not being
        included.

        Make them both executable and and add the path to the tests that use
        them. They also need to be included in the distribution so update
        Makefile.am

        * tests/Makefile.am: Add python test scripts
        * tests/gpt-header-move.py: rename to gpt-header-move and make it
          executable
        * tests/msdos-overlap.py: rename to overlap.py
        * tests/t0282-gpt-move-backup.sh: add path to scripts and use new name
        * tests/t0283-overlap-partitions.sh: same

2014-06-15  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        tests: check name when duplicating
        Create a second partition with a name when supported by the disk label.
        Check to make sure that the duplicate has copied over the name. The goal
        with this was to try to catch the bug fixed by the previous commit but I
        was unable to make it fail. But this should improve our test coverage
        anyway.

        * tests/duplicate.c: Add a partition name test.

2014-06-15  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        libparted: Fix part dupe with empty name
        It was setting the original translated_name to 0, not the new copy.

        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (gpt_partition_duplicate): fix empty name

2014-05-28  Jim Meyering  <meyering@fb.com>

        tests: use test's "=" operator, not "=="
        * tests/t1700-probe-fs.sh: Avoid "make syntax-check" error: s/==/=/

        tests: avoid false-positive failure due to symlink
        * tests/t6000-dm.sh (sanitize): Helper function.
        Before this change, this test would fail due to difference between
        absolute name and symlink-including names in "parted print" output

        maint: fix "make syntax-check" nits
        * doc/parted.texi: Update copyright year to 2014.
        * tests/gpt-header-move.py: Remove empty line at EOF.
        * tests/t0281-gpt-grow.sh: Correct reversed args to compare.
        * tests/t0282-gpt-move-backup.sh: Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (gpt_partition_set_name): Change "Can not"
        to "failed to" in diagnostic.
        (gpt_partition_get_name): Likewise.
        * tests/t1102-loop-label.sh (dev): Remove trailing space in
        here document that creates expected output, and strip that
        same trailing space from actual output.
        * libparted/fs/jfs/jfs.c: Do not cast alloca return value.
        * libparted/fs/reiserfs/reiserfs.c: Likewise.
        * libparted/fs/xfs/xfs.c: Likewise.

2014-05-27  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        tests: Use mkfs.xfs to create files (#1101112)
        On s390 there is a bug with mkfs.xfs and pre-existing files. Work around
        it by creating the file directly with mkfs.xfs. This also works on other
        arches.

        * tests/t1700-probe-fs.sh: Check for xfs and use direct file creation
        * tests/t4100-dvh-partition-limits.sh: Use mkfs.xfs -dfile
        * tests/t4100-msdos-partition-limits.sh: Use mkfs.xfs -dfile

2014-05-27  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        tests: Add ntfs vfat hfsplus to t1700 probe test
        Add some new filesystems to test. Adjust how mkfs.* tests, since some of
        them don't support -V, and add fsname so that the printed filesystem
        name doesn't have to match the type.

        * tests/t1700-probe-fs.sh: Add new filesystems to test

2014-05-26  Jim Meyering  <meyering@fb.com>

        maint: run "make update-copyright"

2014-05-25  Jim Meyering  <meyering@fb.com>

        maint: remove doubled word: s/on on/on/
        * NEWS: Remove doubled-word detected by "make syntax-check".

        gnulib: update submodule to latest
        * gnulib: Update module to latest.
        * bootstrap: Update from gnulib.

2014-05-25  Sergei Antonov  <saproj@gmail.com>

        libparted: mac: support sector size > 512 correctly
        This patch fixes several problems found when trying to do Apple
        Partition Map on a 4K-sector iPod. The problems happened because of
        unneeded conversion between physical sectors and 512-byte units.
        For devices with sector 512 the conversion did no harm, for others it did.

        List of problems (all are gone with the patch):

        * Partition in OS X, connect to Linux, run "parted <dev> print".
          "Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk!" is shown.
          Every partition is displayed 8 times (4k/512) bigger its real size.

        * Exec "mktable mac", connect to OS X.
          The drive's partitioning scheme is not recognized.

        * mkpart creates partitions 8 times (4k/512) smaller than requested.

2014-05-22  Phillip Susi  <psusi@ubuntu.com>

        tests: test loop labels
        Verify previous fixes to loop labels.

        libparted: don't trash filesystem when writing loop label
        If you deleted the fake partition on a loop label, loop_write() would write
        the loop signature to the device, zeroing out all other bytes in the first
        sector.  When the disk contained an ext[234] filesystem and was using 2k
        sectors, this would trash the super block residing in the 1-2kb part of the
        sector causing the disk to become unrecognized.  Instead, read the existing
        sector and only modify the first few bytes that contain the loop label.

        libparted: give correct partition device name on loop labels
        ped_partition_get_path() was returning "/dev/foo1" instead of
        "/dev/foo" on loop labels.  This caused gparted to run tools like mkfs on
        a device node that did not actually exist.

        partprobe: do not skip loop labels
        Partprobe was not syncing loop labels.  This resulted it failing to remove
        existing partitions when switching to a loop label.

        libparted: don't create partition on loop label
        The loop label represents an unpartitioned disk, but creates
        a dummy partition to represent the whole disk.  This dummy partition
        was actually being loaded into the kernel.  Don't do that.

2014-05-22  Phillip Susi  <psusi@ubuntu.com>

        libparted: fix loop labels to not vanish
        The loop label type was using the existence of a partition as a proxy for
        a filesystem being detected, and loop_write() would try to write a loop
        signature if there was no filesystem, and erase it if there was.  Because
        of this, creating a partition without writing a filesystem to it caused
        loop_write to erase the loop label.

        There seems to be no reason to bother erasing the loop label if it is still
        present along with a filesystem signature, so don't bother with this, and
        actually check to see if a filesystem is detected in the partition rather
        than using the existence of a partition to decide if writing the loop
        signature is needed.  Finally, since there is no way to preserve the
        existence of a partition with no filesystem in it, have loop_read() always
        create a partition, even if no filesystem is detected.

2014-05-22  Phillip Susi  <psusi@ubuntu.com>

        libparted: remove all old partitions, even if new label allows less
        We were limiting partition sync operations to the lesser number allowed
        by the device, or the label.  This meant that when creating a new label
        over an old label that had more partitions than the new one allows, the
        higher partitions would not be removed.  Use the greater of the two values
        for the remove pass, and the lesser for the add.

        libparted: remove old partitions *first* before adding new ones
        "libparted: avoid disturbing partitions" put the remove of the old
        partition in second pass.  If you simultaneously removed partitions 1
        and 2, and created a new partition #1 that overlapped the previous second
        partition, the sync would fail because it would try to create the new,
        larger partition #1 before removing the old partition #2.

        libparted: don't detect fat and ntfs boot sectors as dos MBR
        fat and ntfs boot sectors are very similar to an MBR so if you had one of
        these filesystems on an unpartitioned disk, parted detected them as a dos
        partition table.  Have the dos label code call the fat and ntfs filesystem
        probes and if they recognize the sector ( their tests are more stringent )
        then don't claim it as a dos label.

2014-05-22  Phillip Susi  <psusi@ubuntu.com>

        parted: don't reload partition table on every command
        gpt was using a static local variable to suppress repeatedly reporting
        an error if you chose to ignore it.  This is incorrect as the variable is
        global to all disks, and ignoring the error on one should not suppress its
        reporting on another.  Moving the flag to the PedDisk object made it
        effectively useless because parted was destroying the PedDisk and reloading
        the partition table on every command.

        Parted has been reworked to cache the PedDisk once loaded, and only discard
        it when changing disks, or creating a new disklabel.

2014-05-22  Phillip Susi  <psusi@ubuntu.com>

        libparted: fix fat resize
        The changes to fix filesystem detection on non 512 byte sector sizes broke
        fat filesystem resizing.

2014-05-19  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        GPT strings are UCS-2LE not UTF-16
        There was a problem using UTF-16, it was writing the Byte Order Mark
        before the string which caused problems with older versions of parted
        reading the partition name. The test was skipping these 2 bytes when
        checking the written string.

        * libparted/labels/gpt.c: Switch to UCS-2LE for GPT Partition names
        * tests/t0251-gpt-unicode.sh: Update the test

2014-04-29  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        Update NEWS with new DASD features.
        * NEWS: New DASD support

2014-04-29  Petr Uzel  <petr.uzel@suse.cz>

        dasd: avoid usage of uninitialized data
        In ped_partition_new(), disk_specific data of PedPartition
        structure is allocated (via dasd_partition_new()). This
        data is later used uninitialized in dasd_partition_set_system().

        * libparted/labels/dasd.c (dasd_partition_new):
        Zero out allocated disk_specific data.

2014-04-29  Nageswara R Sastry  <rnsastry@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

        libparted: mklabel to support EDEV DASD
        Fixed Block Access (FBA) DASDs are mainframe-specific disk devices
        which are layed out as a sequence of 512-byte sectors. This patch adds
        support for mklabel to properly handle FBA devices.

        libparted: Avoid dasd as default disk type while probe
        This patch avoids setting 'dasd' as a default disk type for
        'disk image file' at the time of probe.

        libparted: mklabel to support EAV DASD
        Extended Address Volume (EAV) DASDs are ECKD DASDs with more than
        65520 cylinders. This patch adds support for mklabel to properly
        handle unformatted EAV DASDs.

2014-04-29  Nageswara R Sastry  <rnsastry@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

        libparted: add support for EAV DASD partitions
        Extended Address Volume (EAV) DASDs are ECKD DASDs with more than
        65520 cylinders. This patch adds support for recognizing and
        modifying partitions on EAV DASDs to Parted. The changes are
        based on the EAV support added to version 1.8.1 [1] of the
        s390-tools package.

        [1] http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/s390-tools-1.8.1.html

2014-04-29  Nageswara R Sastry  <rnsastry@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

        libparted: add support for implicit FBA DASD partitions
        Fixed Block Access (FBA) DASDs are mainframe-specific disk devices
        which are layed out as a sequence of 512-byte sectors. In contrast
        to ECKD DASDs, these disks do not require formatting and resemble
        the LBA layout of non-mainframe disks. Despite this resemblance,
        the Linux kernel applies special handling during partition detection
        for FBA DASDs, resulting in a single, immutable partition being
        reported.

        While actual FBA DASD hardware is no longer available, the z/VM
        hypervisor can simulate FBA DASD disks, backed by either ECKD or
        SCSI devices.

        This patch adds support for recognizing FBA DASD partitions
        to parted.

2014-04-18  Phillip Susi  <psusi@ubuntu.com>

        Fix filesystem detection on non 512 byte sectors
        Enable probing for filesystems with non 512 byte sectors, and fix up each
        filesystem to correctly handle that.  Remove unused field from the fs type
        structure listing acceptable sector sizes.

        tests: fix t2310-dos-extended-2-sector-min-offset.sh
        This test was ignoring the requested sector size and always using
        512 bytes per sector.  Fix it to use the requested sector size.

        tests: fix t1700
        bb181a7e: "tests: Use force for xfs in t1700 and a larger file" caused
        the previous filesystem signatures to be left in the image file
        causing mkfs.nilfs2 to complain that there is already an xfs filesystem
        there, and hang the test suite waiting for an answer to proceed or not.
        Remove the file between filesystems so it is recreated cleanly again.

        libparted: remove last_usable_if_grown
        Commit 3398e82a: "libparted: Use common function to calculate PTE sectors"
        removed usage of the last_usable_if_grown variable, resulting in an error
        because it is now unused but still defined.

2014-04-17  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        tests: t1700 change count to seek
        Fix a typo when changing to sparse images.

        * tests/t1700-probe-fs.sh: count should be seek.

2014-04-16  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        tests: Use force for xfs in t1700 and a larger file
        Also use sparse files that are (with 512B blocks) 128M so that they are
        large enough for all the filesystems.

        * tests/t1700-probe-fs.sh: Make changes.

2014-04-10  Ming Liu  <ming.liu@windriver.com>

        libparted: fix several integer overflows with dvh labels
        Integer overflows was found in libparted/labels/dvh.c, while attemptting
        assign unsigned int values to int types in some places.

        Defined by unsigned int instead.

        * libparted/labels/dvh.h: Change int to unsigned int

2014-04-10  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        testing: Use little-endian packing in gpt tests
        Fix gpt-header-move.py and gpt-header-munge to use little endian when
        packing and unpacking. This allows us to turn the t0210 and t0211 tests
        back on for big-endian systems.

        * tests/gpt-header-move.py: Use little endian for pack/unpack
        * tests/gpt-header-munge: Same
        * tests/t-lib-helpers.sh: Add requires_64bit_ that checks for x86_64 and ppc64
        * tests/t0210-gpt-resized-partition-entry-array.sh: Remove x86_64 test
        * tests/t0211-gpt-rewrite-header.sh: Same

2014-04-08  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        tests: Use msdos-overlap to setup t0283
        xxd isn't present in minimal build systems, as it is part of vim. Change
        to using a simple python script to mangle the msdos disklabel for the
        test.

        * tests/msdos-overlap.py: New file
        * tests/t0283-overlap-partitions.sh: Use msdos-overlap.py

2014-04-08  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        tests: Add emit_superuser_warning for gpt tests
        When parted runs without script mode it will print a warning about not
        being superuser. Add the library call to add this to expected output
        from the tests.

        * tests/t0281-gpt-grow.sh: Add emit_superuser_warning
        * tests/t0282-gpt-move-backup.sh: Add emit_superuser_warning
        * tests/t0283-overlap-partitions.sh: Add emit_superuser_warning

2014-04-08  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        libparted: Use common function to calculate PTE sectors
        Use _ptes_sectors in _parse_header's calculation to determine if the
        disk has been grown.

        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (_parse_header): use _ptes_sectors

2014-04-08  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        libparted: Fix check for backup header location
        Add a couple of helper functions for calculating the partition table
        entry size (in sectors) and for guessing the end of the disk based on
        the LastUsableLBA and the Partition Table Entry size.

        The backup header should be either at the end of the disk, or at what
        the primary header thinks is the end of the disk. Prompt to fix the
        backup header if it is located any other place.

        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (_ptes_sectors): New function
          (_hdr_disk_end): New function
          (gpt_read): Use new function to test for pri's idea of end of disk

2014-03-05  Gustavo Zacarias  <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>

        ui: switch to new-style readline typedef
        The CPPFunction typedef (among others) have been deprecated in favour of
        specific prototyped typedefs since readline 4.2 (circa 2001).
        It's been working since because compatibility typedefs have been in
        place until they where removed in the recent readline 6.3 release.
        Switch to the new style to avoid build breakage.

2014-03-05  Phillip Susi  <psusi@ubuntu.com>

        libparted: sync partitions > 16
        The linux partition sync code was hard coded to only flush
        the first 16 partitions.

2014-03-02  Phillip Susi  <psusi@ubuntu.com>

        libparted: don't require a system id string
        Historically the system ID field of a fat boot sector contains a
        string identifying the OS that formatted it.  It appears that some
        recent versions of Windows have stopped bothering with this.  Stop
        requiring this string to recognize fat as valid.

2014-03-02  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        tests: Restrict gpt-header-munge to little-endian systems
        gpt-header-munge uses perl to manipulate the gpt header for the test. It
        only works on 64 bit little-endian systems so restrict it to x86_64
        only.

        * tests/t0210-gpt-resized-partition-entry-array.sh: Skip if not x86_64
        * tests/t0211-gpt-rewrite-header.sh: Skip if not x86_64

2014-03-02  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        tests: Add btrfs and xfs to the fs probe test
        * tests/tests/t1700-probe-fs.sh: Add btrfs and xfs

2014-03-02  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        libparted: Recognize btrfs filesystem
        Add support for showing 'btrfs' in  the 'file system' column. Also
        allows the used to enter btrfs as the fs type. It doesn't really do
        anything -- just sets the partition type to linux.

        * NEWS (Changes in behavior): Mention it.
        * doc/parted.texti: Document btrfs fs.
        * (libparted/fs/Makefile.am): Add btrfs.c
        * (libparted/fs/btrfs/btrfs.c): Probe for btrfs
        * (libparted/libparted.c): Register btrfs

2014-03-02  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        libparted: Add UEFI System Partition flag.
        This adds support for the ESP partition type on MS-DOS. It also aliases
        it to the boot flag on GPT which sets the ESP GUID type.

        * NEWS (New Features): Mention it.
        * doc/C/parted.8: Document esp flag.
        * doc/parted.texti: Document esp flag.
        * include/parted/disk.in.h (_PedPartitionFlag): Add PED_PARTITION_ESP flag
        * libparted/disk.c (ped_partition_flag_get_name): Add esp flag
        * libparted/labels/dos.c (DosPartitionData): Likewise
        (raw_part_parse): Likewise
        (msdos_partition_new): Likewise
        (msdos_partition_duplicate): Likewise
        (msdos_partition_set_system): Likewise
        (clear_flags): Likewise
        (msdos_partition_set_flag): Likewise
        (msdos_partition_get_flag): Likewise
        (msdos_partition_is_flag_available): Likewise
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (gpt_partition_set_flag): Add PED_PARTITION_ESP
        (gpt_partition_get_flag): Likewise
        (gpt_partition_is_flag_available): Likewise

2014-03-02  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        libparted: Add Intel Rapid Start Technology partition flag.
        This adds support for the irst partition type flag. Sets the type to
        0x84 on MS-DOS and D3BFE2DE-3DAF-11DF-BA-40-E3A556D89593 on GPT.

        * NEWS (New Features): Mention it.
        * doc/C/parted.8: Document irst flag.
        * doc/parted.texti: Document irst flag.
        * include/parted/disk.in.h (_PedPartitionFlag): Add PED_PARTITION_IRST flag
        * libparted/disk.c (ped_partition_flag_get_name): Add irst flag
        * libparted/labels/dos.c (DosPartitionData): Likewise
        (raw_part_parse): Likewise
        (msdos_partition_new): Likewise
        (msdos_partition_duplicate): Likewise
        (msdos_partition_set_system): Likewise
        (clear_flags): Likewise
        (msdos_partition_set_flag): Likewise
        (msdos_partition_get_flag): Likewise
        (msdos_partition_is_flag_available): Likewise
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c: Add PARTITION_IRST_GUID
        (GPTPartitionData): Add irst flag
        (_parse_part_entry): Likewise
        (gpt_partition_new): Likewise
        (gpt_partition_set_system): Likewise
        (gpt_partition_set_flag): Likewise
        (gpt_partition_get_flag): Likewise
        (gpt_partition_is_flag_available): Likewise

2014-03-02  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        tests: rewrite t6001 to use /dev/mapper
        This test began failing because using a private copy of /dev/mapper
        confuses the system. This fixes that and generally cleans up the test.

        tests/t6001.sh: update to use /dev/mapper directly

2014-03-02  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        libparted: don't canonicalize /dev/md/ paths (#872361)
        This is the same issue we have with /dev/mapper/ paths that was fixed in
        commit c1eb485b9fd8919e18f192d678bc52b0488e6ee0. When libparted
        is used to setup the device the symlink should be used to reference it,
        not the backing device name which could change.

        * libparted/device.c (ped_device_get): Don't canonicalize names
          that start with "/dev/md/".

2014-03-02  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        tests: Make sure dm UUIDs are not erased
        * tests/t6005-dm-uuid.sh: Make sure dm UUIDs are not erased

        libparted: preserve the uuid on dm partitions (#832145)
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_dm_add_partition): Set the uuid if there was
          one.

2014-03-02  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        libparted: use dm_udev_wait (#698121)
        This is based on Peter Rajnoha's patch to use dm_udev_wait to
        synchronize with udev.

        This requires libdevmapper v1.02.39 and higher.

        mailing list thread:
        https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2010-09/msg00007.html

        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_dm_task_run_wait): New function
        (_is_dm_major): Add cookie and change call to _dm_task_run_wait
        (_is_dmraid_device): Same
        (_dm_is_part): Same
        (dm_canonical_path): Same
        (_dm_remove_partition): Same
        (_dm_get_partition_start_and_length): Same
        (_dm_add_partition): Same
        (linux_new): Enable udev sync support

2014-02-25  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        tests: test creating 20 device-mapper partitions (#803108)
        * tests/t6004-dm-many-partitions.sh: Make sure > 17 partitions appear in
          device mapper.

        libparted: copy pmbr_boot when duplicating GPT disk
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (gpt_duplicate): copy pmbr_boot flag

2014-02-24  Phillip Susi  <psusi@ubuntu.com>

        Fix help text for disk_{set,toggle}
        Fix the help text to show *disk* flags instead of partition flags.

2013-12-23  Phillip Susi  <psusi@ubuntu.com>

        bug#15591: [PATCH] libparted: handle i18n gpt partition names correctly
        gpt.c was simply truncating the UTF-16 characters stored
        in the partition name field to 8 bits.  This corrupted non
        ascii characters which later resulted in parted crashing in
        strlist.c trying to convert the now invalid multi byte
        characters to wchar.

        gpt.c will now properly convert the UTF-16 to the current
        locale encoding.

2013-11-23  Phillip Susi  <psusi@ubuntu.com>

        libparted: make sure not to treat percentages as exact
        If 1% of the drive size worked out ot be an even power of
        two, it would trigger the exact placement.  Add an exception
        for the percent units.

2013-11-23  Daniel Battaiola Kreling  <dbkreling@br.ibm.com>

        GPT: add support for PReP GUID
        PReP (PowerPC Reference Platform) boot partition is the first partition used in
        PowerPC platform for containing the bootable kernel or bootloader. The firmware
        searches for this partition and jumps to it for booting. So far no GUID was
        specified for this partition type and hence booting from GPT disk was not
        supported on this platform. A new GUID 9e1a2d38-c612-4316-aa26-8b49521e5a8b for
        PReP partition is proposed to be included in GPT.

2013-11-23  Phillip Susi  <psusi@ubuntu.com>

        Fix test compilation
        The tests were not being linked against libpthread but were using
        it, and recent versions of gcc refuse to implicitly pull it in.

        libparted: avoid disturbing partitions
        The partition sync logic was first removing all
        partitions, then trying to re-add them.  This resulted in many
        udev events triggering annoying behavior like auto mounting.
        Refactor the code to avoid removing and re-adding unmodified
        partitions.

        Revert "linux-commit: do not unnecessarily open partition device nodes"
        This reverts commit 2a6936fab4d4499a4b812dd330d3db50549029e0.  The commit
        disabled flushing the block buffer caches on the partition nodes to ensure
        cache consistency on 2.6 kernels, supposedly because this was no longer
        required.  It appears this was incorrect, and the caches DO still need
        flushed, otherwise a new fs written to the partition device does not show
        up in the disk device cache, causing parted to still identify the old fs.

        libparted: allow some common errors to be ignored
        Partitions that overlap or extend beyond the end of the disk are common
        errors that usually result in people having to use other tools to correct
        because parted refuses to operate when it sees them.  Change these errors
        to allow you to ignore them and use parted to correct the problem.

2013-11-23  Phillip Susi  <psusi@ubuntu.com>

        libparted: fix gpt end of disk handling
        There are two checks for problems with the end of disk.  The first checks
        to make sure that the backup gpt is actually at the end of the disk as it
        should be.  The second checks to see that the gpt's idea of where the disk
        ends is correct.  The handling of the backup gpt location was wrong because
        if you chose not to fix the error, then as soon as you made any changes the
        backup would be written to the end of the disk anyhow, only the previous
        backup would not be zeroed.

        This patch fixes the write path to put the backup gpt where the gpt says
        it goes, not where we think the disk ends.  This allows you to choose
        not to fix the problems, and the backup gpt will be written to the same
        place it was before, not the new end of disk.

2013-11-23  Phillip Susi  <psusi@ubuntu.com>

        libparted: handle logical partitions starting immediately after the EBR
        _blkpg_add_partition() set the length of the extended partition
        to 2 sectors to allow LILO to be installed there, beacuse the
        linux kernel does this.  If a logical partition used that second
        sector, adding it would fail beacuse of the overlap.  Now
        _blkpg_add_partition() will limit the length to only the first
        sector if the second is used by a logical partition.

        Previously parted did create the partition table, and after a
        reboot, the kernel would recognize the table, and happily create
        the extended partition as 2 sectors long, thus overlapping the
        logical partition, but when parted tried to recreate the same
        table with BLKPG, the kernel rightly rejected it.

2013-11-23  Phillip Susi  <psusi@ubuntu.com>

        gpt: Revert small device commits
        The following commit broke the position of the LastUsableLBA:

        48f236f9: gpt: permit "mklabel gpt" on a 67-sector device

        It introduced an off by one error, leaving LastUsableLBA pointing to
        the first sector of the backup partition table instead.

        This effectively reverts that commit, as well as adjusting the subsequent
        commits to instead use 68 sectors as the minimum length.  I believe
        this is the minimum legal size as at 67 sectors, there is no valid
        value for FirstUsableLBA and LastUsableLBA.

2013-11-23  Phillip Susi  <psusi@ubuntu.com>

        tests: t6003-dm-hide: don't hang on exception
        If the parted -l found any exceptions, it would print the prompt, which was
        redirected to the log, then hang waiting for input, which never came.  Use
        script mode to disable the prompts.

        parted: fix EOF and ctrl-c handling
        feof() seems to not detect EOF after readline() hits it, so parted went
        into an infinite loop prompting for input on EOF.  Change test to use the
        got_ctrl_c variable instead, which is set when readline hits EOF and
        returns NULL.  This also makes parted properly exit on ctrl-c.

2013-10-09  Jim Meyering  <meyering@fb.com>

        bootstrap: update to latest from gnulib

2013-10-09  Jonathan Liu  <net147@gmail.com>

        dos: improve MBR signature generation
        Using tv_usec in struct timeval from gettimeofday() doesn't provide
        enough precision to fill an unsigned 32-bit integer and isn't really
        random. It it always less than one million when using the GNU C library
        while an unsigned 32-bit integer ranges between 0 and 4294967295.

        In FAT filesystem creation, parted already uses a better random
        generator, so move that code into a common function and use it
        for MS-DOS MBR signature generation.

        * libparted/fs/r/fat/fat.c (_gen_new_serial_number): Remove.
        (fat_create): Use generate_random_uint32 instead of
        _gen_new_serial_number.
        * libparted/labels/dos.c (generate_random_id): Remove.
        (msdos_write): Use generate_random_uint32 instead of
        generate_random_id.
        * libparted/labels/misc.h (generate_random_uint32): New function.
        Created from _gen_new_serial_number in libparted/fs/r/fat/fat.c with
        additional check to avoid returning zero, which may be interpreted
        as no FAT serial number or no MBR signature.

2013-01-06  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        maint: avoid new warning/error with gcc-4.8.0 20130105
        * configure.ac (WERROR_CFLAGS): Disable -Wsuggest-attribute=format.
        It was suggesting to apply the gnu_printf attribute to vsnprintf.

        maint: update all copyright year number ranges
        Run "make update-copyright".

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

2013-01-02  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        doc: 1MiB-alignment is not enough for cheap flash drives
        * doc/parted.texi: Add an example that aligns to 4GiB, and
        reference Arnd Bergman's LWN article.

2012-10-29  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        tests: make t6003-dm-hide work reliably on F17
        * tests/t6003-dm-hide.sh: Adjust to work reliably on Fedora 17.

2012-10-29  Phillip Susi  <psusi@ubuntu.com>

        libparted: don't probe every dm device in probe_all
        We were probing every dm device.  Only probe dmraid whole disk
        (non-partition) devices instead.  This removes the clutter of
        LVM logical volumes, and dmraid partitions from the list, which
        usually do not make sense to partition.

        * NEWS (Changes in behavior): Mention it.
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_is_dmraid_device): New function.
        (_dm_is_part): Likewise.
        (_probe_dm_devices): Use the latter.
        * tests/t6003-dm-hide.sh: New test.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.

2012-10-29  Phillip Susi  <psusi@ubuntu.com>

        libparted: remove extraneous blkpg add partition ped exception
        _blkpg_add_partition was throwing an exception if it failed to add the
        new partition, in addition to _disk_sync_part_table throwing one, and
        then bailing out.  Instead of bailing out, just log the error for
        reporting later and continue.

        libparted: refactor device-mapper partition sync code
        The device-mapper partition sync code was still using the remove all
        partitions, then add new partitions method.  Refactor to use the same
        algorithm as regular disks: try to remove all, and ignore any that could
        not be removed but have not changed.

2012-10-23  Eric Blake  <eblake@redhat.com>

        build: default to --enable-gcc-warnings in a git tree
        Anyone building from cloned sources can be assumed to have a new
        enough environment, such that enabling gcc warnings by default will
        be useful.  Tarballs still default to no warnings, and the default
        can still be overridden with --disable-gcc-warnings.
        * configure.ac (gl_gcc_warnings): Set default based on environment.

2012-10-17  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        tests: cleanup losetup usage
        The unsafe_losetup_ function was failing because losetup didn't
        recognize that the 'private' /dev/loopX devices were the same as
        /dev/loopX, it would fail even if one was in use. Switch to using
        losetup --show which is a cleaner solution.
        Also use sparse file for loop_setup to save space.
        * tests/t-lvm.sh (unsafe_losetup_): Remove function.
        (loop_setup_): Use losetup's --show option instead.
        Use dd with /dev/null, not /dev/zero.
        * tests/t6001-psep.sh: Use loop_setup_ rather than losetup --show.

2012-10-17  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        maint: regenerate .po, .pot files

        maint: use $(AM_V_GEN) to cut down on build noise
        * doc/Makefile.am: Prefix each rule with $(AM_V_GEN).
        * doc/po4a.mk (dist_man_MANS): Likewise.

2012-10-16  Petr Uzel  <petr.uzel@suse.cz>

        partprobe: remove partitions when there is no partition table
        When partprobe detects no partition table on a device, it should
        tell the kernel to drop partitions on that device, but it did not.
        * parted/partprobe.c (process_dev): When ped_disk_probe fails,
        create a dummy (empty) partition table and use that.
        * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
        Addresses: https://bugzilla.novell.com/783419

2012-10-15  Petr Uzel  <petr.uzel@suse.cz>

        doc: update partprobe manpage
        * doc/C/partprobe.8: Add long options, REPORTING BUGS section
        and adjust DESCRIPTION section because it wasn't quite correct.

        partprobe: remove --no-update long option
        It was deprecated and scheduled for removal in 2009.
        * partprobe/partprobe.c (long_options): Remove "no-update" entry.

        build: .gitignore: ignore tests/fs-resize

2012-10-09  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        build: do not rely on automake's AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Rename from
        AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT, since it is not honored in automake-1.11.3
        after all.  This reverts commit v3.1-14-g2bd66d7.  For now, I'll
        leave the following commit that made bootstrap.conf require 1.11.2.
        Prompted by a report of test failure from Phillip Susi.

2012-10-09  Gilles Espinasse  <g.esp@free.fr>

        tests: t8001: do not rely on "modprobe loop"
        Remove 'rmmod loop' and 'modprobe loop max_part=7' commands.
        The latter command may fail after the first command has run,
        leaving the machine with no loop support.

        This happens on my chroot, because:
        - rmmod does not depend on the availability of the loop module,
        - modprobe fails, since the kernel compiled inside the chroot
          is different from the running kernel.

        Instead, rely on t-lvm loop_setup_ to load the loop module, if required.

2012-10-09  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: improve test for partitionable loop devices
        * tests/init.cfg (require_partitionable_loop_device_): Skip
        when cat fails.

2012-10-06  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        maint: fix an error in the preceding commit log
        Stefano Lattarini noticed an error in the log for
        commit v3.1-32-g478e472.  Arrange for that error
        to be fixed in the generated ChangeLog file.
        * build-aux/git-log-fix: New file.
        * Makefile.am (gen-ChangeLog): Adjust rule to use it.

        tests: stop using private "dev" directory for losetup
        Something about Fedora 17's losetup changed so that using a private
        dev directory no longer worked.  Now, simply use /dev/ directly.
        * tests/t-lvm.sh: Don't use $G_dev_.  Not needed, and actually
        caused the t6000-dm root-only test to fail on Fedora 17.
        Also, redirect less to /dev/null: that helps diagnose failure.

2012-10-04  Bob Beers  <bob.beers.gmail.com>  (tiny change)

        doc: libparted/disk.c: correct doxygen comment typo
        * libparted/disk.c: s/PedPartition/PedDisk/

2012-09-29  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: clean up tests
        Use warn_ and $ME_ in place of warn and $ME; remove definitions of
        the latter two.  Remove unused code.
        * tests/lvm-utils.sh: Remove file.  All functions were either unused
        or duplicated/better in t-lvm.sh.
        * tests/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Remove it.
        * tests/t-local.sh (scsi_debug_setup_): Use echo 1>&2, not warn_, to
        emit to log file only, not console.  The diagnostic it emitted (in
        verbose mode) was more "informational" than a warning.
        * tests/t9030-align-check.sh: Use warn_, not warn.
        * tests/t-lvm.sh: Likewise, and use fail_, not error (undefined!).
        * tests/t-lib-helpers.sh (device_mapper_required_): Use t-lvm.sh
        and an explicit lvm_init_root_dir_ in place of lvm-utils.sh.

2012-09-29  Roderick W. Smith  <rodsmith@rodsbooks.com>

        add support for a new Linux-specific GPT partition type code
        * NEWS: Describe the new Linux-specific partition type code
        and the new msftres flag that can be used to override this type
        code, should it be necessary.
        * doc/parted.texi: Describe of the new msftres flag.
        * include/parted/disk.in.h [_PedPartitionFlag]: Add
        PED_PARTITION_MSFT_DATA.
        * libparted/disk.c: Add check for PED_PARTITION_MSFT_DATA, with
        return of "msftdata", to ped_partition_flag_get_name()
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (PARTITION_LINUX_DATA_GUID): Define.
        [_GPTPartitionData]: New member, "int msftdata".
        (_parse_part_entry): Set the msftdata flag if and only if the
        PARTITION_BASIC_DATA_GUID type code is in use;
        (gpt_partition_new): Use the PARTITION_LINUX_DATA_GUID
        type as the default type code
        (gpt_partition_set_system): Set the PARTITION_BASIC_DATA_GUID type
        code on partitions on which the msftdata flag is set and set
        PARTITION_LINUX_DATA_GUID as the type by default.
        Clear the msftdata flag in most tests in gpt_partition_set_flag()
        (gpt_partition_set_flag): Add test for PED_PARTITION_MSFT_DATA, which
        sets msftdata and other flags appropriately
        (gpt_partition_get_flag): Add test for the PED_PARTITION_MSFT_DATA
        item that returns the status of the msftdata flag
        (gpt_partition_is_flag_available): Add test for
        PED_PARTITION_MSFT_DATA item to
        * tests/t0220-gpt-msftres.sh: Accommodate the fact that now,
        partition table listings include "msftdata" for file systems
        of type NTFS and FAT*.
        For more discussion and justification, see
        http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.parted.bugs/10456

2012-09-20  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: mac: exercise the just-fixed bug
        * tests/t0350-mac-PT-increases-sector-size.sh: New test.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.

2012-09-20  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        mac: don't let larger partition-table-specified block size evoke UB
        For example, in reading a MAC partition table on a 512-byte sector-size
        disk, _disk_analyse_block_size could find reason to ask if it's ok to
        increase that to e.g., 2048.  Upon a positive reply, we would read 2048
        bytes into a 512-byte buffer.

        * libparted/labels/mac.c (mac_read): If needed, reallocate "buf"
        to accommodate a new, larger sector size.
        * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.

2012-09-20  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: avoid syntax-check failure for reversed compare args
        * tests/t0203-gpt-create-on-min-sized-device.sh: Reverse args,
        so that any diff output (upon failed test) looks sensible.

2012-09-12  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: show that small dev now evokes "mklabel gpt" diagnostic
        * tests/t0203-gpt-create-on-min-sized-device.sh: New test.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.

        gpt: when "mklabel gpt" fails, always provide a diagnostic
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (gpt_alloc): When rejecting a device because
        it is too small, give a diagnostic, as is done in every other failure
        path through this function.

        gpt: permit "mklabel gpt" on a 67-sector device
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (gpt_alloc): Correct checks in order to
        allow creation of a GPT partition table on a 67-sector device.
        The computation of the "data_end" sector number was one too low.
        Whereas there are two sectors at the beginning of the disk (pMBR
        and the GPT header sector), there is only one at the end: the
        backup GPT header.  That (67) is the size of the smallest GPT
        partition table, allowing for *no* partition table sectors.

        tests: update t7000-scripting.sh to avoid new FP
        * tests/t7000-scripting.sh: Use -34s as the endpoint, not -1s,
        to avoid a spurious difference.  Also, remove quoting artifacts.

2012-09-12  Davidlohr Bueso  <dave@gnu.org>

        gpt: require first_usable_LBA <= last_usable_LBA
        When verifying GPT header integrity, ensure that the
        first usable LBA is no larger than the last usable LBA.
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (_header_is_valid): Reject a header
        with last_usable < first_usable.

2012-09-12  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: clarify a comment: _reading_ gpt tables on tiny devices
        * tests/t0203-gpt-tiny-device-abort.sh: Clarify.

        maint: remove unnecessary wcslen use
        * parted/strlist.c (gettext_to_wchar): Tighten up test for
        mbsrtowcs failure and remove unnecessary wcslen use.

2012-08-30  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>  (tiny change)

        maint: tighten per version requirement
        * bootstrap.conf ($buildreq): Require Perl >= 5.6 (not merely >= 5.5),
        because that's the minimal version required by modern Automake and
        Autoconf.

        maint: make Autoconf version requirement consistent
        * bootstrap.conf ($buildreq): Require Autoconf >= 2.63, not >= 2.61,
        for consistency with what is done in AC_INIT in configure.ac

2012-08-30  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>  (tiny change)

        build: require Automake >= 1.11.6
        Now that we use AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT, we should require at least
        Automake >= 1.11.2; but since all the Automake version until 1.11.5
        are vulnerable to CVE-2012-3386:

            <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2012-07/msg00023.html>

        it's even better to require 1.11.6.

        * configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Bump version requirement to 1.11.6.
        * bootstrap.conf ($buildreq): Likewise.

2012-08-30  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>  (tiny change)

        tests: remove unused AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT entries
        Probably a copy&paste errors, likely from the TESTS_ENVIRONMENT
        definition in the 'tests/Makefile.am' in GNU coreutils.

        * tests/Makefile.am (AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Don't define nor export
        any of the variables PREFERABLY_POSIX_SHELL, REPLACE_GETCWD, CC,
        MAKE, PERL.

2012-08-30  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>  (tiny change)

        tests: prefer AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT over TESTS_ENVIRONMENT
        The latter should be reserved for user overrides.

        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Rename ...
        (AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): ... like this.

2012-08-30  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>  (tiny change)

        build: enable subdir-objects Automake option globally
        That option is enabled unconditionally in Automake-NG, and enabling
        it also for mainline Automake will help to ensure no unexpected
        incompatibilities is introduced in a potential port to Automake-NG.

        Moreover, if we have a source file 'sub/foo.c', having it compiled
        in 'sub/foo.o' rather than in 'foo.o' is undeniably cleaner and more
        natural.

        * configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Add 'subdir-objects'.
        * libparted/fs/Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): No need to declare
        'subdir-objects' explicitly now.

2012-08-30  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>  (tiny change)

        build: prefer pattern rules over suffix rules
        That is acceptable, because the GNU parted build system already
        requires GNU make anyway: the $(subst ...) built-in is used in the
        common recipe for the 'ss-1024', 'ss-2048' and 'ss-4096' targets
        in Makefile.am.

        * include/parted/Makefile.am (.in.h.h): Rename ...
        (%.h: %.in.h): ... as this pattern rule.
        (SUFFIXES): Delete, no more needed.

2012-08-30  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>  (tiny change)

        build: don't list files with unknown suffix in _SOURCES
        While this works with mainline Automake (which blindly treats source
        files with an unknown extension as if they were header files), it is
        undocumented (albeit admittedly unlikely to change).  Moreover, it no
        longer works with Automake-NG (and that's by design), so the use of
        such feature would make a port to Automake-NG more difficult.

        * libparted/labels/Makefile.am (liblabels_la_SOURCES): ... don't
        list 'pt-limit.gperf' here; rather ...
        (EXTRA_DIST): ... list 'pt-limit.c' and 'pt-limit.gperf' here.
        (EXTRA_DIST, BUILT_SOURCES): Enhance few comments.

2012-08-30  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>  (tiny change)

        build: prefer $(AM_CPPFLAGS) over $(INCLUDES)
        The latter is obsolete, and might be removed in future Automake versions.
        Moreover, it's already been removed in Automake-NG, so its use would make
        a port to Automake-NG more difficult.

        * parted/Makefile.am (INCLUDES): Rename ...
        (AM_CPPFLAGS): ... like this.
        * partprobe/Makefile.am: Likewise.
        * libparted/fs/Makefile.am: Likewise.
        * libparted/Makefile.am: Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/Makefile.am: Likewise.

2012-08-28  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        build: update gnulib, bootstrap and init.sh

        maint: don't prohibit strncpy just yet
        * cfg.mk (local-checks-to-skip): Add sc_prohibit_strncpy,
        so that we do not yet enable the strncpy prohibition.
        There are many uses, and it will be a lot of work to remove
        all of them.

        maint: avoid new syntax-check failure re @xref
        * doc/parted.texi: Adjust @xref usage: it must be used only
        at start of sentence.
        * doc/parted-pt_BR.texi: Likewise.

2012-06-09  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: add a test to exercise just-fixed code
        * tests/print-max.c: Extend to provide coverage of
        ped_disk_get_max_supported_partition_count, too.
        * tests/t9021-maxima.sh (max_n_partitions): New function, with
        naively hard-coded max-number-of-partitions-per-partition-table-type
        values.
        Use it to ensure that each expected value matches the actual one.
        * cfg.mk: Exempt this test's use of error from the syntax-check
        for unmarked diagnostics.

2012-06-09  Richard W.M. Jones  <rjones@redhat.com>

        gpt: fix endianness bug in gpt_get_max_supported_partition_count
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (gpt_get_max_supported_partition_count):
        Take endianness of pth->FirstUsableLBA into account (64-bit,
        little endian) when calculating the maximum number of partitions.
        * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.

2012-03-26  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: remove bogus envvar setting from t0300-dos-on-gpt.sh
        * tests/t0300-dos-on-gpt.sh: Remove envvar setting that effectively
        disabled testing(only in this test) of simulated sector sizes smaller
        than 4KiB.
        Also, use a much smaller backing file.

2012-03-24  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        tests: add t0301-overwrite-gpt-pmbr.sh
        Make sure parted checks the PMBR before the GPT partition table.

        * NEWS: Update with new GPT behavior.
        * tests/overwrite-gpt-pmbr.sh: New test.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.

2012-03-24  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        libparted: check PMBR before GPT partition table
        The UEFI spec requires that a valid GPT disk label have a PMBR
        partition. This moves the PMBR check to before the GPT check,
        exiting gpt_probe with a 0 if the PMBR is not valid.

        The previous behavior would cause problems in the following situation:
         1. format a disk as GPT
         2. re-format it as MSDOS using tools that don't understand GPT

        Subsequent operations with parted would then complain about the invalid
        PMBR, but would not allow the disk to be used as an msdos disk. This
        change causes parted to recognize the msdos partition table.

        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (gpt_probe): Move _pmbr_is_valid test.
        Reported by Chris Murphy in http://bugzilla.redhat.com/805272

2012-03-02  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        maint: post-release administrivia
        * NEWS: Add header line for next release.
        * .prev-version: Record previous version.
        * cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Auto-update.

        version 3.1
        * NEWS: Record release date.

        maint: bump library version to 2.0.0
        * libparted/Makefile.am (CURRENT): Increment, since I removed
        ped_realloc.

        maint: update README-release to reflect we now have two libraries
        * README-release: Two sets of library version triples to adjust.
        * bootstrap: Tiny fix from gnulib.

        lib-fs-resize: remove unused probe-related code
        * libparted/fs/r/hfs/probe.c: Remove probe-related functions.
        There are not used.
        * libparted/fs/r/fat/fat.c: Likewise.
        * libparted/fs/r/hfs/probe.h: ...and declarations.

2012-02-26  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        libparted: avoid unwarranted failed assertion during mklabel
        This could happen when running "parted -s $dev mklabel $type" for
        nearly any $type, assuming the underlying disk's sector size is
        larger than 512 bytes.  This particular failure was noticed by
        running tests/t9050-partition-table-types.sh with a simulated
        sector size of 1024, as is done as part of a top-level "make check",
        but so far, this failure has shown up only on RHEL-6.2.
        That test attempts to exercise an ugly part of partition table
        creation: during creation, parted checks for an existing
        partition table by iterating through its list of known types and
        attempting to read the disk, looking for a preexisting table.
        Knowing this, the test takes all pairs of partition table types,
        <A,B> and first creates a type of type A, and then creates on top
        of that (erasing the original) a table of type B.
        * libparted/labels/mac.c (_disk_analyse_ghost_size): Remove bogus
        assertion.  If the number of the sector with a matching signature
        is too large, simply reject it by returning 0.
        * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention this.

2012-02-25  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        doc: improve NEWS
        * NEWS: Expand/adjust wording in two entries.

2012-02-21  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: sanitize PATH; do not discard mkswap output
        * tests/init.cfg (sanitize_path_): New function, from coreutils.
        Use it.
        * tests/t9050-partition-table-types.sh: Do not discard mkswap output
        and diagnostics.  This test would fail (e.g., on OpenSUSE 12.1), when
        run with PATH not including /sbin.  Reported by Bruno Haible.

2012-02-18  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: skip failing use of mkfs.hfs unless using newer, fixed version
        The old, segfaulting version does not recognize the -v option, while
        the new one does.  Use that to skip the test when it seems that
        fsck.hfs is broken.
        * tests/t3000-resize-fs.sh: Skip part of this root-only test
        when fsck.hfs is the always-segfaulting version.

        build,test: update gnulib, bootstrap and init.sh
        * bootstrap: Update.
        * tests/init.sh: Update.
        * gnulib: Update.
        * doc/po4a.mk: Updating gnulib pulls in newer syntax-check rules,
        including one that rejects @lower_case@ variables in Makefiles.
        Fix the sole violation: s/@mandir@/$(mandir)/

        build: avoid non-srcdir build failure
        * libparted/fs/Makefile.am: s!fsresize.sym!$(srcdir)/fsresize.sym!

2012-02-10  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        maint: placate syntax-check wrt tests/fs-resize.c
        * tests/fs-resize.c (main): Remove unused #includes.
        Do use set_program_name, to placate syntax-check.

        doc: mention HFS+/FAT file system resizing in NEWS
        * NEWS (New features): Mention it.

        tests: test FAT and HFS file system resizing
        * tests/t3000-resize-fs.sh: New test.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
        (check_PROGRAMS): Add fs-resize.
        (fs_resize_LDADD): Define, so it links with both libraries.

2012-02-10  Christoph Hellwig  <hch@lst.de>

        tests: add FS-resize test driver
        * tests/fs-resize.c: New file, to test FAT/HFS resizing.

2012-02-10  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        lib-fs-resize: use linker script to expose only selected functions
        * libparted/fs/Makefile.am (libparted_fs_resize_la_LDFLAGS): Define.
        (EXTRA_DIST): Distribute the new file.
        (libparted_fs_resize_la_DEPENDENCIES): Make the library depend on it.
        * libparted/fs/fsresize.sym: New file.

        maint: remove r/hfs/DOC,HISTORY,TODO; add VERSION for new library

        lib-fs-resize: rewrite ped_file_system_clobber
        Before, it would probe for an existing file system type and then,
        according to what it found, call the corresponding <FS_TYPE>_clobber
        function.  Now that we have restored only HFS and FAT FS-writing
        support, only those few types have a corresponding _clobber function.
        We would obviously fail to clear common types of file systems, and even
        if we were to restore all previous _clobber functions, none of those
        were able to handle sector sizes larger than 512.  Not worth it.
        * libparted/fs/r/filesys.c: Include pt-tools.h.
        (MIN): Define.
        (ped_file_system_clobber): Rewrite not to use hfs*_clobber or
        fat_clobber.  Instead, simply clear the first three and last two
        sectors of the specified "device".
        * libparted/fs/Makefile.am (INCLUDES): Add
        -I$(top_srcdir)/libparted/labels for new use of a ptt_* function.

        lib-fs-resize: add wrappers for open,close,resize,get_resize_constraint
        * libparted/fs/r/filesys.c: Implement ped_file_system_resize,
        ped_file_system_open, ped_file_system_close and
        ped_file_system_get_resize_constraint.
        * libparted/fs/r/hfs/hfs.c: Give a few functions global scope,
        so we can use them from the above.
        * libparted/fs/Makefile.am: Use automake's subdir-objects option.
        This avoids conflicts with multiple *.o file names
        (e.g., fat.o), now that two directories provide that name.
        (AM_CFLAGS): Disable $(WERROR_CFLAGS), for now.

        maint: update copyrights in r/

2012-02-07  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        lib-fs-resize: re-add HFS and FAT file-system-related code
        This just adds the code, without hooking it up yet.
        * po/POTFILES.in: Add all libparted/fs/r/**.c files.

        maint: remove now-unused fat-related functions
        * libparted/fs/fat/bootsector.c (fat_boot_sector_generate)
        (fat_boot_sector_write, fat_info_sector_write): Remove functions.
        (fat_boot_sector_set_boot_code): Likewise.
        * libparted/fs/fat/bootsector.h: Remove declarations.
        * libparted/fs/fat/fat.c (fat_set_frag_sectors, fat_free_buffers):
        Remove function.
        * libparted/fs/fat/fat.h: Remove declarations.

        tests: set PARTED_TEST_NAME, for valgrind
        * tests/Makefile.am (PARTED_TEST_NAME): Define.
        * tests/t0211-gpt-rewrite-header.sh: Clarify a comment.

        libparted: gpt: avoid heap-read-overrun when rewriting 9-PTE table
        Now that parted can rewrite a corrupt-or-misaligned 9-PTE table,
        we have to be careful to allocate space for slightly more data
        when the byte-count required for a PTE table is smaller than
        the whole number of sectors would imply.  I.e., when the PTE table
        size is not a multiple of the sector size, there is a fraction of
        that final sector for which we do not read data, but we do write.
        Ensure we have space for the buffer we'll write and that it is
        initialized (to 0's).
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (gpt_write): Allocate the right amount of
        space.  Use calloc, not malloc+memset.

2012-02-03  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        maint: adjust the URL that will appear in the generated announcement
        * cfg.mk (url_dir_list): Use this http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/$(PACKAGE)
        for the first link listed in the generated announcement.
        announce-gen now provides the faster mirror link automatically.

        ui: rewrite disk_print_flags and partition_print_flags
        * parted/parted.c (disk_print_flags): Avoid NULL-dereference on
        failed malloc.  Use xrealloc, not ped_realloc.
        (partition_print_flags): Likewise; nearly identical code.

        tests: avoid relatively harmless new "make syntax-check" failure
        * tests/t0209-gpt-pmbr_boot.sh: Reverse compare arguments.

        libparted: remove ped_realloc, now unused
        * include/parted/parted.in.h (ped_realloc): Remove declaration.
        * libparted/libparted.c (ped_realloc): Remove definition.

2012-02-02  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        doc: update parted documentation
        * doc/parted.text: Add disk_set command.

        tests: add test for GPT PMBR pmbr_boot flag
        * tests/t0209-gpt-pmbr_boot.sh: New test
        * tests/Makefile.am: Add new test
        * NEWS: Add information about the GPT PMBR pmbr_boot flag

        tests: update tests for new disk flags output
        * tests/t0010-script-no-ctrl-chars.sh: Updated
        * tests/t0100-print.sh: Updated
        * tests/t0101-print-empty.sh: Updated
        * tests/t0220-gpt-msftres.sh: Updated
        * tests/t0250-gpt.sh: Updated
        * tests/t0280-gpt-corrupt.sh: Updated
        * tests/t2310-dos-extended-2-sector-min-offset.sh: Updated
        * tests/t4000-sun-raid-type.sh: Updated
        * tests/t4100-dvh-partition-limits.sh: Updated
        * tests/t4100-msdos-partition-limits.sh: Updated
        * tests/t4100-msdos-starting-sector.sh: Updated
        * tests/t4200-partprobe.sh: Updated
        * tests/t5000-tags.sh: Updated
        * tests/t6000-dm.sh: Updated
        * tests/t9040-many-partitions.sh: Updated
        * tests/t9041-undetected-in-use-16th-partition.sh: Updated

2012-02-02  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        parted: when printing, also print the new disk flags
        This adds a 'Disk Flags:' line the displays the active disk flags.
        In machine mode this is appended to the disk info line, after the
        device model.

        * parted/parted.c (disk_print_flags): New function
        (_print_disk_info): Add Disk Flags information.

2012-02-02  Matthew Garrett  <mjg@redhat.com>

        gpt: add commands to manipulate pMBR boot flag
        Some BIOS systems will only boot from GPT partitions if the boot flag is
        set on the protective MBR partition. This adds the ability to set this
        flag using the disk_set and disk_toggle commands.
        * include/parted/disk.in.h (_PedDiskFlag): Add PED_DISK_GPT_PMBR_BOOT
        * libparted/disk.c (ped_disk_flag_get_name): Add PED_DISK_GPT_PMBR_BOOT
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (_GPTDiskData): Add pmbr_boot flag.
        (gpt_alloc): Init pmbr_boot to 0.
        (gpt_read_headers): Set pmbr_boot state from PMBR boot flag.
        (_write_pmbr): Add pmbr_boot flag and set PMBR boot flag from it.
        (gpt_write): Pass pmbr_boot flag through to _write_pmbr
        (gpt_disk_set_flag): New function
        (gpt_disk_is_flag_available): New function
        (gpt_disk_get_flag): New function
        (gpt_disk_ops): Add disk_set_flag, disk_get_flag, disk_is_flag_available
        * parted/parted.c (do_disk_set): New function
        (do_disk_toggle): New function
        (_init_commands): Add do_disk_set and do_disk_toggle
        * parted/ui.c (command_line_get_disk_flag): New function
        * parted/ui.h: Add command_line_get_disk_flag prototype.

2012-01-23  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: create 128 partitions also in the scsi-backed test
        * tests/t9040-many-partitions.sh: Tighten up: use less memory:
        1 sector per partition rather than 256.
        Exec parted just once, not once per partition.
        With that, we can increase the number of partitions to create
        from 60 (which used to take 2.5 minutes on an F12-era kernel)
        to the standard-GPT-header-imposed maximum of 128.
        Suggested by Phillip Susi.

        tests: exercise today's bug fix, creating a GPT table with 128 entries
        * tests/t0212-gpt-many-partitions.sh: New test.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.

        libparted: gpt: avoid invalid free with many (~100) partitions
        * parted/parted.c (do_print): Remove invalid free.
        Bug introduced via v1.8.8.1-19-gb56d69c.
        * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention this.

2012-01-22  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: test for yesterday's bug fix
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
        * tests/t0211-gpt-rewrite-header.sh: New test.

        libparted: gpt: rewrite even a 9-partition-entry table properly
        The vast majority of GPT partition tables have 128 PTEs (partition
        table entries.  However, zfs-related ones have only 9, and when
        rewriting one (which can happen only in interactive mode), parted
        would fail to write the full PTE array whenever the PTE array size
        was not a multiple of the sector size.  This fixes the same type
        of bug as v3.0-45-gce85c51.
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (gpt_write): When computing how many sectors
        to write for the PTE array, round up rather than truncating.  This
        matters only when n_PTEs * 128 is not a multiple of the sector size.
        For details on how to reproduce see the test or
        http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.parted.bugs/10691/focus=10695
        * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.

2012-01-21  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        maint: clean-up preparing for bug fix
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (gpt_write): Rename local:
        s/ptes_size/ptes_bytes/; declare as size_t, not "int".
        Move decls "down".

2012-01-19  Phillip Susi  <psusi@cfl.rr.com>

        libparted: raise dos partition limit from 16 to 64
        * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
        * libparted/labels/dos.c (MAX_TOTAL_PART): s/16/64/
        * tests/t9042-dos-partition-limit.sh: s/13/61/ (MAX_TOTAL_PART-3)
        (adjust/factor some of the logic - jmm)

2012-01-18  Phillip Susi  <psusi@cfl.rr.com>

        libparted: enforce dos partition limit
        The msdos partition table claimed a maximum partition count of 16
        but would allow you to go beyond that.  This resulted in the kernel
        not being informed of those partitions.  Corrected to enforce the
        limit.

        * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
        * libparted/labels/dos.c (next_primary): Return -1 upon failure.
        (next_logical): Stop no later than MAX_TOTAL_PART.
        Throw exception and return -1 upon failure.
        (msdos_partition_enumerate): Convert a negative partition number
        return value from either of the above two to failure (return 0).
        * tests/t9042-dos-partition-limit.sh: New file.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.

2012-01-13  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        build: revert the recent "fix" to avoid make warnings about linux.lo
        It avoided the warning, but introduced a real problem
        when building from a clean directory.
        The real solution will have to wait, since it appears to
        depend on a fix in automake.

        This reverts commit a3c351c2d1cf2c0000bbc681959695c612bd19a0.

2012-01-13  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        build: don't use -version for convenience libraries
        Don't use -release, either.  This avoids warnings from libtool.
        * libparted/fs/Makefile.am (libfs_la_LDFLAGS): Remove.

        build: use LT_INIT, to make bootstrap run libtoolize
        * configure.ac: Use LT_INIT, so that bootstrap runs libtoolize,
        which creates build-aux/ltmain.sh.

2012-01-12  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        maint: remove useless BUILD_LINUX conditional
        * configure.ac (BUILD_LINUX): Don't set it.
        * libparted/Makefile.am (BUILD_LINUX): Remove useless use.

2012-01-12  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        maint: avoid long-standing warnings from make:
          Makefile:1274: warning: overriding recipe for target `linux.lo'
          Makefile:1267: warning: ignoring old recipe for target `linux.lo'

        * libparted/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Rename from
        EXTRA_libparted_la_SOURCES.

2012-01-12  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        libparted: provide a new convenience function: ptt_geom_clear_sectors
        * libparted/labels/pt-tools.c (ptt_geom_clear_sectors): New function.
        * libparted/labels/pt-tools.h: Declare it.

2012-01-11  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        maint: remove "MAINTAINERCLEANFILES = Makefile.in" from Makefile.am's
        * debug/Makefile.am: As above.
        * debug/test/Makefile.am: Likewise.
        * doc/C/Makefile.am: Likewise.
        * doc/pt_BR/Makefile.am: Likewise.
        * include/Makefile.am: Likewise.
        * include/parted/Makefile.am: Likewise.
        * libparted/Makefile.am: Likewise.
        * libparted/fs/Makefile.am: Likewise.
        * libparted/tests/Makefile.am: Likewise.
        * partprobe/Makefile.am: Likewise.
        * doc/Makefile.am: Likewise, for mdate-sh and texinfo.tex.

2012-01-10  Keshav P R  <the.ridikulus.rat@gmail.com>

        build: insert -I$(top_builddir)/include before -I$(top_srcdir)/include
        everywhere, for those who perform non-srcdir builds from a pristine
        cloned directory.  There is no problem when building from a tarball,
        since that includes include/parted/*.h files under $(top_srcdir).
        * libparted/Makefile.am: Insert it.
        * libparted/fs/Makefile.am: Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/Makefile.am: Likewise.
        * libparted/tests/Makefile.am: Likewise.
        * parted/Makefile.am: Likewise.
        * partprobe/Makefile.am: Likewise.
        * tests/Makefile.am: Likewise.

2012-01-10  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        build: .gitignore: ignore more

        maint: hoist libparted/fs/*/Makefile.am into parent Makefile.am
        There was no need to have a separate Makefile.am for each file system
        type, and a good reason *not* to do that (reduce duplication).
        * configure.ac (AC_OUTPUT): Remove Makefiles.
        * libparted/fs/Makefile.am (SUBDIRS): Remove.
        (EXTRA_DIST): List the two non-src files: hfs/DOC hfs/HISTORY.
        (libfs_la_SOURCES): Hoist file names to here from...
        * libparted/fs/amiga/Makefile.am: ...here.
        * libparted/fs/ext2/Makefile.am: Likewise.
        * libparted/fs/fat/Makefile.am: Likewise.
        * libparted/fs/hfs/Makefile.am: Likewise.
        * libparted/fs/jfs/Makefile.am: Likewise.
        * libparted/fs/linux_swap/Makefile.am: Likewise.
        * libparted/fs/nilfs2/Makefile.am: Likewise.
        * libparted/fs/ntfs/Makefile.am: Likewise.
        * libparted/fs/reiserfs/Makefile.am: Likewise.
        * libparted/fs/ufs/Makefile.am: Likewise.
        * libparted/fs/xfs/Makefile.am: Likewise.
        * libparted/fs/*/Makefile.am: Remove files.
        * libparted/fs/amiga/a-interface.c: Now that the .o files are all
        in the same place, rename from interface.c, to avoid collision with
        name of .o file from ext2/interface.c.

        build: correct my typo in preceding commit
        * configure.ac (AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR): Correct preceding commit.
        Keshav's patch was correct, but when I attempted to do the same
        thing manually I wrote .h.in rather than .in.h.

2012-01-10  Keshav P R  <the.ridikulus.rat@gmail.com>

        build: update AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR for non-srcdir-from-clone builds
        * configure.ac (AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR): List parted.h.in, rather than
        the now-generated parted.h, for those who run configure not from
        a distribution tarball, but from a non-srcdir build using a pristine
        clone.

2012-01-09  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        maint: rename public .h files to .in.h
        Generate .h files from .in.h files, so that we can continue
        to use _GL_ATTRIBUTE_PURE and _GL_ATTRIBUTE_CONST in the primary
        sources, without including them in publicly-installed files.
        Each generated (and later installed) header file gets expansions
        of those macros.
        * include/parted/Makefile.am: New rules.
        * .gitignore: Ignore the generated files.
        * Makefile.am (SUBDIRS): Reorder so we build in include/ before
        libparted, i.e., so that we generate the .h files we'll need.

        parted.h: use _GL_ATTRIBUTE_CONST and _GL_ATTRIBUTE_PURE in VC'd files
        However, we will replace those strings with their expansions when
        installing them.
        * include/parted/parted.h: Revert part of commit v3.0-83-gd51bfc0.

        tests: root-only test would fail to remove its loop device
        * tests/t8001-loop-blkpg.sh: Ironically, when skipping this test,
        there was a race condition where in more than 7 out of 10 trials,
        this test's "losetup -d $dev" command would fail with "device in use".
        Hence, with enough testing, I would eventually use up all loop devices
        and start getting new test failures due to losetup *creation* failure.

        build: fix "make distcheck" failure
        Ever since "make distcheck" began using sudo (i.e., running "make check"
        as root, and then running it as non-root), the build-after-root would
        often fail due to some derived files being owned by root.
        This change adds a "chown -R $USER ." to restore order.
        * Makefile.am (root-check): Run "chown -R $USER ." after sudo run.
        (root_check): Rename variable from root-check, to avoid a warning
        from automake about non-POSIX variable.

        build: appease gcc's -Werror=suggest-attribute=pure
        * parted/strlist.c (wchar_strcasecmp): Add pure attribute; make static.
        (wchar_strncasecmp): Likewise.
        (wchar_strdup): Likewise.

2012-01-09  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        build: update to latest from gnulib
        * bootstrap: Update.
        * tests/init.sh: Likewise.
        * gnulib: Update submodule to latest.

        maint: remove two generated files in doc/
        * doc/fdl.texi: Remove file from version control.  It is generated.
        * doc/gendocs_template: Likewise.
        * doc/parted.texi: Add @node ... before inclusion of fdl.texi,
        since fdl.texi dropped that part.
        * doc/parted-pt_BR.texi: Likewise.
        * doc/.gitignore: Update.

        build: accommodate newer bootstrap from gnulib
        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_tool_option_extras): Add both --symlink
        and --makefile-name=gnulib.mk.  Remove stray use of $bt.
        * lib/Makefile.am: Initialize all of the following so that
        generated code in gnulib.mk may use += to append to those variables:
        AM_CFLAGS, AM_CPPFLAGS, BUILT_SOURCES, CLEANFILES, EXTRA_DIST,
        MAINTAINERCLEANFILES, MOSTLYCLEANDIRS, MOSTLYCLEANFILES, SUFFIXES,
        noinst_LTLIBRARIES.

2012-01-09  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        libparted: gpt: a smaller device need not render both headers invalid
        Putting a valid GPT-labeled image on a smaller device, (i.e., one that
        truncates the backup GPT header, but that does not impact the primary
        one) should not render the primary header invalid.
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (_header_is_valid): Do *not* reject a header
        when its last_usable value is larger than the device length.
        This reverts part of commit v3.0-10-g99f9c6a, "gpt: don't abort for a
        truncated GPT-formatted device".  With this change, running parted in
        interactive mode with such an image/device combination will recognize
        that only the backup header is corrupt, and will offer to correct it.
        Before, it would report that both headers were corrupt.
        * tests/t0203-gpt-shortened-device-primary-valid.sh: New file.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.

        gpt: eliminate four PED_ASSERT uses
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (_parse_header): Convert a few PED_ASSERT
        uses to friendlier 'test-and-return-0's. Reported by Graham Markall
        in http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.parted.bugs/10653

2012-01-08  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        libparted: don't use _GL_ATTRIBUTE_CONST in public parted.h, ...
        Instead, use the bare __attribute__((__const__)).
        * include/parted/parted.h (__attribute): Define.
        (ped_get_version): Use open-coded __attribute.
        Prompted by a report from Keshav P R.

        tests: fix misleading mkpart usage
        Using "primary" is fine (and common) as a partition *type* for dos
        partition tables, but with a partition table of type GPT, it is
        downright misleading to specify the partition *name* as "primary".
        * tests/t0220-gpt-msftres.sh: Use "p-name" as partition name,
        rather than misleading "primary".
        * tests/t7000-scripting.sh: Likewise.

2012-01-05  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: skip loop-partitioning tests when ext_range is < 2
        * tests/init.cfg (require_partitionable_loop_device_): New function.
        * tests/t8001-loop-blkpg.sh: Use it.
        * tests/t8000-loop.sh: Use it.

        libparted: remove _blkpg_get_partition
        [I applied Phillip's initial patch, omitting both my adjustments
        and his own v2 changes.  This addresses both of those omissions. ]
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_blkpg_get_partition): Remove function
        and sole use, per patch from Phillip Susi.
        (_kernel_get_partition_start_and_length): Adjust formatting,
        remove unnecessary test and correct a diagnostic.

2012-01-05  Phillip Susi  <psusi@cfl.rr.com>

        libparted: avoid the HDIO_GETGEO ioctl when possible
        We were using the long depreciated HDIO_GETGEO ioctl on the
        partition to get its start sector.  Use the new BLKPG_GET_PARTITION
        ioctl instead.  This allows for disks > 2TB and partitioned loop
        devices, which don't support HDIO_GETGEO.  As a fallback when
        BLKPG_GET_PARTITION fails or is not availible, try getting the
        values from sysfs, and finally use BLKGETSIZE64 and HDIO_GETGEO
        as a last resort.

        libparted: remove has_partitions check to allow loopback partitions
        Commit 1b766b69 added the _has_partitions function to check if a device
        was a loop device and if so, skip updating the kernel partition table
        because loop devices did not support partitions.  This function never
        worked anyway, and loop devices now (since linux 3.2) support
        partitions, so remove this crufty code.
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_has_partitions): Remove function and
        all uses.

        libparted: remove _loop_get_partition_range
        Commit 1eb0cc30 added support for loop devices to be partitioned,
        but it only enabled that support if the kernel parameter max_part
        was non zero.  This parameter just reserves minor numbers for
        partitions in the traditional sequence that hard disks used.
        When it is zero, it is still possible to add partitions, they
        just will get minor numbers from another pool.  Removing this
        check allows partitions to be used on loop devices even when the
        loop module was not loaded with the max_part argument.
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_loop_get_partition_range): Remove function
        and all uses.

2012-01-05  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: fix a bug in wait_for_dev_to_disappear_ helper function
        * tests/t-lib-helpers.sh (wait_for_dev_to_disappear_): Correct
        typo: missing expr in subshell.

2012-01-04  Phillip Susi  <phillsusi@gmail.com>

        libparted: linux: exclude floppy from device scan
        Floppies can't be partitioned anyhow, and some people have a
        misconfigured BIOS that thinks there is a floppy when there
        actually isn't, and trying to scan it causes hanging.

2012-01-03  Phillip Susi  <phillsusi@gmail.com>

        tests: try harder to clean up scsi_debug
        Tests were failing because the previous test gave up while trying to
        unload the scsi_debug module.  Try longer to remove it, and then throw
        in a call to udevadm settle for good measure.
        * tests/t-local.sh: Try harder to release resources here, rather than...
        * tests/t9040-many-partitions.sh: ...in this one test.
        * tests/t-local.sh (require_scsi_debug_module_): Now that
        cleanup requires "udevadm settle", add that requirement here:
        call require_udevadm_settle_.

2012-01-01  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        maint: update all copyright year number ranges
        Run "make update-copyright".

2011-12-15  Phillip Susi  <psusi@cfl.rr.com>

        doc: add NEWS entry for "Add partition separator only when required"

2011-12-12  Phillip Susi  <psusi@cfl.rr.com>

        Add partition separator only when required
        Device mapper type should not automatically
        mean add 'p' before the partition number.  Fall back to
        adding it only if the previous character is a digit.
        This complies with kpartx behavior and linux behavior
        "since the dawn of time".

2011-12-03  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

        build: address a new "noreturn" suggestion
        * parted/ui.h (help_msg): Declare as __noreturn__.

        build: configure.ac: use -Wno-format-nonliteral

        build: mark functions with "const" or "pure" attribute, per gcc warnings
        Use _GL_ATTRIBUTE_PURE or _GL_ATTRIBUTE_CONST.  Mark static functions at
        point of definition; extern ones at point of declaration.
        * include/parted/crc32.h:
        * include/parted/device.h: Likewise.
        * include/parted/disk.h: Likewise.
        * include/parted/exception.h: Likewise.
        * include/parted/filesys.h: Likewise.
        * include/parted/geom.h: Likewise.
        * include/parted/natmath.h: Likewise.
        * include/parted/parted.h: Likewise.
        * include/parted/unit.h: Likewise.
        * libparted/arch/linux.c: Likewise.
        * libparted/disk.c: Likewise.
        * libparted/exception.c: Likewise.
        * libparted/fs/amiga/amiga.h: Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/aix.c: Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/bsd.c: Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/dos.c: Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/dvh.c: Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/efi_crc32.c: Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c: Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/mac.c: Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/pc98.c: Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/rdb.c: Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/sun.c: Likewise.
        * libparted/unit.c: Likewise.
        * parted/ui.c: Likewise.
        * parted/strlist.c: Likewise.
        * parted/strlist.h: Likewise.
        * libparted/tests/common.h (_implemented_disk_label): Mark as pure.
        * libparted/cs/natmath.c (extended_euclid): Mark as pure.

        build: avoid new float-to-double warnings
        * libparted/timer.c (ped_timer_new_nested): Mark literal floating point
        constants with "f" suffix, since they are compared against "float"s.
        * parted/parted.c (_timer_handler): Likewise.

        build: tweak how bootstrap manages ChangeLog
        * bootstrap.conf: Create ChangeLog only by touching it, so that
        it doesn't ever remove my in-use symlink (w/vc-dwim).

        tests: two more of these: use "compare exp out", not "compare out exp"
        * tests/t7000-scripting.sh: Reverse compare arguments.
        * tests/t2310-dos-extended-2-sector-min-offset.sh: Likewise.

2011-11-29  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: use "compare exp out", not "compare out exp"
        Likewise, when an empty file is expected, use "compare /dev/null out",
        not "compare out /dev/null". I.e., specify the expected/desired contents
        via the first file name.  Prompted by a suggestion from Bruno Haible
        in http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.grep.bugs/4020/focus=29154

        Run these commands:

            git grep -l -E 'compare [^ ]+ exp' \
              |xargs perl -pi -e 's/\b(compare) (\S+) (exp\S*)/$1 $3 $2/'
            git grep -l -E 'compare [^ ]+ /dev/null' \
              |xargs perl -pi -e 's,\b(compare) (\S+) (/dev/null),$1 $3 $2,'

2011-11-27  Petr Uzel  <petr.uzel@suse.cz>

        tests: test for partitions on mdraid
        * tests/t6100-mdraid-partitions.sh: New file.
        * tests/Makefile.am: Run this test.

2011-11-26  Petr Uzel  <petr.uzel@suse.cz>

        libparted: use ext_range to find out largest possible partition
        Parted uses /sys/block/DEV/range file to find out how many partitions
        can the blockdevice hold and uses this number in its algorithm
        for informing the kernel about modified partitions. This works
        fine for most devices, however, it fails on partitionable MD arrays,
        because these have 1 in range file. Using ext_range should be safer
        and work for all devices.

        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_device_get_partition_range): Use
        /sys/block/DEV/ext_range instead of range sysfs file
        * NEWS: Mention the change.

        Addresses: http://bugzilla.novell.com/567652

2011-11-26  Petr Uzel  <petr.uzel@suse.cz>

        build: gitignore tests/duplicate
        .gitignore: Add tests/duplicate.

2011-11-11  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        maint: a little defensive programming in a test script
        * tests/gpt-header-munge: Use "local *F;" to limit scope of
        file handles.

2011-11-10  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: skip a test if Perl's Digest::CRC module is not installed
        * tests/init.cfg (require_perl_digest_crc_): New function.
        * tests/t0210-gpt-resized-partition-entry-array.sh: Use it.
        Reported by Keshav P R in
        http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.parted.bugs/10530/focus=10589

        tests: fix test for udevadm
        * tests/init.cfg (sector_size_): Fix syntax error in test invocation.

        maint: "make distcheck" now runs the root-only tests
        * Makefile.am (root-check): New overridable variable and rule.
        (distcheck-hook): Depend on it.

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

        maint: adjust the URL that will appear in the generated announcement
        * cfg.mk (url_dir_list): Use this http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/$(PACKAGE)
        for the first link listed in the generated announcement.
        announce-gen now provides the faster mirror link automatically.
        Remove now-unnecessary release-related URLs.

2011-11-06  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

        build: stop distributing gzip'd releases;  xz is enough
        * configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Add no-dist-gzip.
        * NEWS (Build-related): Mention that we're dropping .tar.gz.

2011-11-05  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: exercise and document the HFS-probe bug fix
        Simply zeroing out the total_blocks and block_size members of the
        on-disk _HfsMasterDirectoryBlock would provoke a failed assertion
        any time parted tried to probe that partition.
        * tests/t2500-probe-corrupt-hfs.sh: New script.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
        * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention this.

2011-11-05  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        libparted: HFS/HFS+ probe: don't let a corrupt FS evoke failed assertion
        * libparted/fs/hfs/probe.c (hfsplus_probe): Add a check on the
        search value and reject it if it is negative.
        (hfsx_probe): Likewise.
        (hfs_and_wrapper_probe): Likewise.
        Reported by Flos Lonicerae in http://bugzilla.redhat.com/714758

2011-11-04  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        tests: t9030 wait for partition removal
        The removal of the partition may take enough time that the next
        mkpart will fail.  Wait for it to be removed.

        Remove scsi_debug size and set the end of the partition to 800s so that
        it will fit inside the default scsi_debug size of 8M, even when sector
        size is 4Kb. This prevents failures on machines with limited memory.

        * tests/t9030-align-check.sh: Wait for partition removal and use
        a smaller disk.

2011-11-04  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: add a helper function
        * tests/t-lib-helpers.sh (wait_for_dev_to_disappear_): New function.

        tests: exercise the "GPT vs other-sized partition entry arrays" fixes
        * tests/t0210-gpt-resized-partition-entry-array.sh: New file.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
        (EXTRA_DIST): Add gpt-header-munge.

        tests: rewrite/complete GPT-munging perl script
        Rewrite and complete this script.
        It was incomplete and buggy.  Now it works.
        * tests/gpt-header-munge: Rename from ...
        * tests/perl-munge-9-PTE-table: ...this.

2011-11-03  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        gpt: don't misbehave with e.g., a 9-entry partition array
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (_generate_header): Correct size of
        partition array entries to round up to nearest multiple of
        sector size, so that we set gpt->PartitionEntryLBA correctly
        also when the number of partition entries is not a multiple
        of sector_size / 128.  Problem diagnosed by Robert Herndon
        in http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.parted.bugs/10173.

2011-11-03  Robert Herndon  <Robert.Herndon@quantum.com>

        gpt: prepare for tables with n_partition_array_entries != 128
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (gpt_read_PE_array): When computing the size
        of the partition array entry, use the value of "number of partition
        array entries" read from a GPT header, not the default of 128 that we
        use when creating new headers.  Details here:
        http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.parted.bugs/10173

2011-11-03  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        parted: exit nonzero for certain failures already diagnosed as "Error"
        * parted/parted.c (do_print): Do not exit successfully when issuing
        an error about an "unrecognised disk label" or when both GPT primary
        and backup tables are corrupted.
        * tests/t0101-print-empty.sh: Adjust expected exit code to match
        new behavior.
        * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention this.

        tests: adjust a test to make its failure easier to diagnose
        * tests/t0203-gpt-tiny-device-abort.sh: When failing, also
        emit parted's diagnostics.

2011-11-02  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        maint: correct two comments in gpt.c
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (gpt_read_headers): Correct the comment.
        (_header_is_valid): Fix a harmless typo.

2011-11-02  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        tests: add new test to check ped_disk_duplicate
        * tests/duplicate.c: New test.
        * tests/t0501-duplicate.sh: New test program.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TEST): Add new test.
        (check_PROGRAMS): Add new test program.

        libparted: copy flags when duplicating GPT partitions
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (gpt_partition_duplicate): Copy flags to new
        partition.
        * NEWS: Mention this fix.
        Reported by Chris Murphy in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/747497.

2011-11-02  Petr Uzel  <petr.uzel@suse.cz>

        tests: exercise the new feature
        * tests/t0208-mkpart-end-in-IEC.sh: New file.
        * tests/Makefile.am: Add it.

2011-11-02  Petr Uzel  <petr.uzel@suse.cz>

        parted: mkpart: DWIM for IEC ending sector numbers like 2MiB and 9GiB
        Before, if the user specified start and end in mkpart command using
        IEC units, parted created a partition that starts and ends exactly on
        these positions. With such behavior, it is impossible to create
        partitions as follows: 1MiB-2MiB, 2MiB-3MiB - parted would complain
        that it cannot create the second partition, because the first one
        occupied sectors 2048-4096 and the second one sectors 4096-3072,
        so they would overlap at sector 4096.

        With this patch, if the user uses IEC units to specify end of the
        partition, parted creates the partition which ends one sector before
        the specified position.

        See also
        https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2011-10/msg00009.html

        * parted/ui.c (command_line_get_sector): Add parameter to retrieve
        raw input from user.
        * parted/ui.h (command_line_get_sector): Adjust prototype of function.
        * parted/parted.c (_adjust_end_if_iec): New function.
        (_strip_trailing_spaces): New function.
        (_string_ends_with_iec_unit): New function.
        (do_mkpart): Call _adjust_end_if_iec(). Use new parameter of
        command_line_get_sector function.
        (do_rescue): Adjust call to command_line_get_sector.
        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add these: c-ctype, c-strcase.
        * tests/t0207-IEC-binary-notation.sh: Adjust to new semantics.
        * NEWS: Mention the changed behavior.

        Notable adjustments:
        - s/isspace/c_isblank/ so that parsing is locale-independent
        - avoid an array-bounds error:
          * parted/parted.c (_strip_trailing_spaces): Don't deref str[-1]
          for an empty string.

2011-10-19  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        tests: add tests for new pc98 signatures (#646053)
         * tests/t2201-pc98-label-recog.sh: New file
         * tests/Makefile.am: Add test

2011-10-19  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        libparted: make pc98 detection depend on signatures
        pc98 is not a common disk label. Change pc98_probe to only return true
        if one of the recognized signatures is present.
        Currently these include:

        IPL1
        Linux 98
        GRUB/98

        This prevents false-positive detection on msdos labeled disks.

        * libparted/labels/pc98.c (pc98_probe): Change to require signature
        (pc98_check_ipl_signature): Add more signatures
        (check_partition_consistency): Remove unused function
        Reported by Zach Carter in http://bugzilla.redhat.com/646053

2011-10-15  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

        tests: use more portable fd redirection in TESTS_ENVIRONMENT
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Redirection with `exec 9>&2'
        is not portable to various Korn shells, and to (at least) HP-UX 11
        /bin/sh.  Use a more portable idiom.
        See <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/22488> for
        lots of discussion.

2011-10-15  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

        tests: TEST_ENVIRONMENT simplified and made more robust
        The test scripts in tests/ are shell scripts, so the current
        definition of TESTS_ENVIRONMENT, which adaptively run tests using
        either perl or the shell depending on their kind, is overkill.

        Moreover, this change is required in order for the testsuite to
        continue to work with the new testsuite harness that is planned
        to be introduced in Automake 1.12 (which, as of the writing date,
        is still under development and in late alpha state).

        See also related discussion on bug-coreutils:
          <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=8887>

        * tests/help-version: Moved ...
        * tests/help-version.sh: ... to this.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
        (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Remove definition of the `shell_or_perl_' shell
        function, which is not required anymore.
        (SH_LOG_COMPILER): New, define to `$(SHELL)'.

2011-10-14  Richard W.M. Jones  <rjones@redhat.com>

        tests: fix the tests for the case where stdout/stderr is different
        tests/t0000-basic.sh:
         - More than one bogus ^M[[:space:]]*^M had to be removed, hence
           use s,,,g sed expression.

        tests/t0203-gpt-tiny-device-abort.sh:
         - Test was not expecting any output to stderr.  No longer true.

        tests/t1100-busy-label.sh:
         - Another case of s,,,g as above.

        tests/t7000-scripting.sh:
         - Only testing output to stdout.  Fold stdout & stderr together
           and test both.
         - Another case of s,,,g as above.

        Some root tests still fail even with these fixes.  The failures appear
        to be unrelated to these changes.

2011-10-14  Richard W.M. Jones  <rjones@redhat.com>

        parted: write a few errors and warnings to stderr instead of stdout

        parted: strlist print functions can now send output to any FILE *
        This changes the two strlist print functions so that instead of just
        sending output to stdout, they can send it to any FILE *.  Now the
        caller can send errors to stderr instead of stdout.

2011-10-12  Petr Uzel  <petr.uzel@suse.cz>

        parted: make a warning message more informative
        The following parted message is not very useful:

          Error: You requested a partition from 2.00MiB to 3.00MiB.
          The closest location we can manage is 2.00MiB to 3.00MiB.

        Improve the message by including exact geometry (in sectors):

          ...requested a partition from 2.00MiB to 3.00MiB (sectors 2048..3072).
          ... location we can manage is 2.00MiB to 3.00MiB (sectors 2049..3072).

        * parted/parted.c (do_mkpart): Include exact partition geometry in
        the warning message.
        * tests/t-lib-helpers.sh (normalize_part_diag_): Adapt to
        handle the new form of the diagnostic.
        * tests/t7000-scripting.sh: Adapt and change the name
        of a temporary file.

2011-10-03  Petr Uzel  <petr.uzel@suse.cz>

        doc: update manpage
        Remove documentation for removed commands, adjust general description to
        match parted's capabilities, add documentation for 'toggle' and
        'align-check' commands. Remove 'KNOWN ISSUES' section since it no longer
        applies.

        tests: verify that 'udevadm settle' is available
        * tests/init.cfg (require_udevadm_settle_): New function.
        * tests/t8001-loop-blkpg.sh: Call it.

2011-10-01  Petr Uzel  <petr.uzel@suse.cz>

        libparted: do not omit last sector when creating full-dev geometry
        Note that ped_constraint_solve_max() is currently not used anywhere.

        * libparted/cs/constraint.c (ped_constraint_solve_max): full_dev now
        really represents whole device.

2011-10-01  Petr Uzel  <petr.uzel@suse.cz>

        maint: unmark PedDeviceType as deprecated
        PedDeviceType was marked as deprecated before parted started using
        git. Since it proved to be useful to differentiate between different
        device types, and nobody seems interested in removing it from the API,
        let's clear the deprecated flag.

2011-10-01  Petr Uzel  <petr.uzel@suse.cz>

        libparted: do not call _device_get_partition_range() twice
        PED_MIN can evaluate its arguments twice.

        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_disk_sync_part_table): Call
        _device_get_partition_range() outside PED_MIN.

2011-10-01  Petr Uzel  <petr.uzel@suse.cz>

        libparted: optimize _disk_sync_part_table
        In _disk_sync_part_table, if the largest partition number (lpn) is 0,
        it does not make sense to go through the loops below.  Return
        immediately instead.
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_disk_sync_part_table): Return immediately
        if lpn == 0.

        build: ignore more generated files

        parted: remove obsolete comments
        is_start_exact and is_end_exact were removed from the source.
        * parted/parted.c (constraint_from_start_end): Remove obsolete
        documentation of the function.

        libparted: check return value from ped_geometry_init
        If ped_geometry_init() failed in ped_disk_set_partition_geom(),
        then new_geom remains uninitialized, but still later used, which
        leads to unexpected results.
        * libparted/disk.c (ped_disk_set_partition_geom): Check return
        value from ped_geometry_init().

2011-09-30  Petr Uzel  <petr.uzel@suse.cz>

        tests: add test for partitionable loop devices
        * tests/t8001-loop-blkpg.sh: New file.
        * tests/Makefile.am: Add test.

2011-09-29  Petr Uzel  <petr.uzel@suse.cz>

        libparted: improve support for partitions on loopback devices
        Since linux-2.6.26, the kernel allows partitions on loopback devices.
        Implement support for this feature in parted.
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_sysfs_int_entry_from_dev): New function.
        (_loop_get_partition_range): New function.
        (_device_get_partition_range): Add special handling for loop devices.
        * NEWS: Mention this change.

        libparted: differentiate between plain files and loop devices
        Stop using PED_DEVICE_FILE for loopback devices;
        loopback are significantly different from plain files.
        * include/parted/device.h (PedDeviceType): Add PED_DEVICE_LOOP.
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_device_probe_type): Detect loopback device.
        * parted/parted.c (do_print): Add "loopback" to list of transports.

        dvh: factor out read_sector and use ptt_read_sector
        * libparted/labels/dvh.c (read_sector): Factor out this function.
        (dvh_probe): Use ptt_read_sector instead of read_sector.
        (dvh_read): Likewise.

2011-09-28  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        build: update gnulib to latest; adapt use of _GL_ATTRIBUTE_FORMAT
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_GL_ATTRIBUTE_FORMAT): Define here,
        now that it's no longer defined by gnulib.

        build: avoid new syntax-check failure
        * cfg.mk: Exempt libparted/arch/beos.c from the PATH_MAX check.
        I suspect that this is ok, because parted compiles only on systems
        that define PATH_MAX to something reasonable.

        doc: mention the origin of the other two bugs
        * NEWS: Mention that the other two bugs were introduced long ago.

        tests: test for the nilfs2 bug
        * tests/t4300-nilfs2-tiny.sh: New test.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.

        libparted: fix a bug in the nilfs2 probe function
        * libparted/fs/nilfs2/nilfs2.c (nilfs2_probe): Reject this partition
        if we get a negative sb2 offset.  Passing a negative offset to
        ped_geometry_read_alloc would evoke a failed assertion.
        Bug introduced by 2010-07-09 commit d463e7de.
        * NEWS: (Bug fixes): Mention it.
        Reported by Daniel Fandrich in
        http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.parted.bugs/10466/focus=10472

2011-06-24  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        gpt: don't abort for a truncated GPT-formatted device
        This fixes the problem two ways.  The first fix (via gpt_alloc)
        rejects any device that is too small, but it is insufficient.
        Choose a slightly larger truncated device with an otherwise intact
        primary GPT header and you can still trigger the failed assertion.
        To fix it in general, we make _header_is_valid detect the problem.
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (gpt_alloc): Reject a device that is so
        small that there is no room for a single partition.
        (_header_is_valid): Validate LastUsableLBA here, as well, so that
        we now reject as invalid any GPT header that specifies a
        LastUsableLBA larger than the device size.
        Leave the assertion in _parse_header.
        * tests/t0203-gpt-tiny-device-abort.sh: Test for this.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
        * NEWS: (Bug fixes): Mention it.
        Reported by Daniel Fandrich in
        http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.parted.bugs/10466

        libparted: avoid invalid diagnostic in interactive mode
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (linux_read): In interactive mode,
        a truncated device with a preexisting GPT could evoke this:
          Error: end of file while reading Success
        it should have been like this:
          Error: end of file while reading /full/name/of/device
        Use %0.0s to discard the strerror argument.

2011-06-22  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        tests: add test for value less than 1
        * tests/t9023-value-lt-one.sh: New file.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.

        tests: add test for radius divide by 2 fix
        * tests/t9022-one-unit-snap.sh: New file.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.

2011-06-22  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        libparted: don't allow values less than 1 (#665496)
        When a value < 1 is used there is the possibility that the range can
        overlap sector 0. The user should use smaller units instead. 0 is a
        special case and is still allowed.

        * libparted/unit.c (ped_unit_parse_custom): Throw error if a value
        between 0 and 1 is used.

2011-06-22  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        libparted: fix snap radius so that it is using half (#665496)
        The snap radius didn't match the documentation, it has been using +/-
        unit size instead +/- 0.5 * unit (eg. 500KB for a MB unit). This caused
        problems when specifying 1MB, 1GB, etc. as a partition start or end
        resulting in partitions being created that were nowhere near the
        specified size.

        * libparted/unit.c (ped_unit_parse_custom): divide radius by 2
        This addresses http://bugzilla.redhat.com/665496

2011-06-10  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        maint: prefer AC_PROG_LIBTOOL over slightly deprecated AM_PROG_LIBTOOL
        * configure.ac: Use AC_PROG_LIBTOOL rather than slightly deprecated
        AM_PROG_LIBTOOL.

2011-06-07  H. Peter Anvin  <hpa@zytor.com>

        libparted: simplify kernel version-parsing logic
        * libparted/arch/linux.c: (_get_linux_version): Simplify and add
        an assertion.

2011-06-07  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        libparted: accommodate two-component linux version number like 3.0
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_get_linux_version): Also accept 2-component
        version numbers.
        * NEWS: (Bug fixes): Mention it.
        Reported by Richard W.M. Jones.

2011-05-30  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        post-release administrivia
        * NEWS: Add header line for next release.
        * .prev-version: Record previous version.
        * cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Auto-update.

        version 3.0
        * NEWS: Record release date.

        maint: placate coverity: don't ignore some return values
        * libparted/cs/constraint.c: Include <assert.h>.
        (ped_constraint_exact): Don't ignore ped_alignment_init's return
        value or that from ped_geometry_init.

        loop: avoid NULL dereference upon failure
        * libparted/labels/loop.c (loop_partition_duplicate): Don't dereference
        NULL upon failure.

        shared library version: increment major: 1.0.0
        * libparted/Makefile.am (CURRENT, REVISION): Update from 0.2.0 to 1.0.0,
        due to removed interfaces.

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

2011-05-27  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        doc: update NEWS
        * NEWS (Changes in behavior): Describe the change.
        (Bug fixes): Mention the leak fixes.

        doc: reflect removal of FS-related commands
        * README (WARNING): Say that all FS-manipulation code is now gone.
        * doc/parted.texi (Command explanations): Remove descriptions of and
        any examples or references to the following commands: check, cp,
        mkfs, mkpartfs, move, resize.

        build: remove configure-time options: --disable-fs, --enable-Werror
        * configure.ac: Remove support for --enable-fs and --disable-fs.
        Remove support for --enable-Werror and --disable-Werror.
        * README: Remove paragraph about --disable-fs and
        --enable-discovery-only.
        * libparted/libparted.c: Now that --disable-fs is gone (i.e.,
        ENABLE_FS would be always 1), remove its #ifdefs.

        tests: make t0220 more useful when it fails

        maint: update po/POTFILES.in
        * po/POTFILES.in: Remove file names, to reflect file deletions.

        doc: remove FS-related documentation and other stale bits
        * doc/parted.texi: Remove FS-related documentation and other
        stale bits.

        linux_swap: remove all-but-probe FS-related code

        xfs: remove all-but-probe FS-related code

        jfs: remove all-but-probe FS-related code

        ufs: remove all-but-probe FS-related code

        reiserfs: remove all-but-probe FS-related code

        hfs: remove all-but-probe FS-related code

        ntfs: remove all-but-probe FS-related code

        amiga: build with warning and error options
        * libparted/fs/amiga/Makefile.am (AM_CFLAGS): Add $(WARN_CFLAGS)
        and $(WERROR_CFLAGS).

        ext2: remove all-but-probe FS-related code

        fat: remove all-but-probe FS-related code

        remove all top-level FS-op code and the clearfat program

        UI: remove all file-system-aware sub-commands
        Note that we are removing the resize command, even though parted
        appears to be the only free tool that provides the ability to
        resize FAT16 and FAT32 file systems.
        * parted/parted.c (do_mkfs, do_cp, do_mkpartfs): Remove functions.
        (do_move, do_check, do_resize): Likewise.
        (_init_commands): Remove each command-definition clause.
        * parted/parted.c (_partition_warn_loss): Remove now-unused function.
        * include/parted/filesys.h: Remove declarations of now-removed
        FS-munging functions

        tests: t1100: show that adding a partition on a busy device succeeds
        * tests/t1100-busy-label.sh: Demonstrate that adding a partition
        succeeds, even when another on the same device is mounted (active).

        amiga: avoid NULL-deref-on-OOM and an error-path leak
        * libparted/labels/rdb.c (amiga_read): Don't dereference NULL on OOM.
        Don't leak a constraint when failing to add a partition.

        mac: avoid NULL-deref-on-OOM and an error-path leak
        * libparted/labels/mac.c (mac_read): Don't dereference NULL on OOM.
        Don't leak a constraint when failing to add a partition.

        sun: avoid NULL-deref-on-OOM and an error-path leak
        * libparted/labels/sun.c (sun_read): Don't dereference NULL on OOM.
        Don't leak a constraint when failing to add a partition.

        UI: avoid leak when interactive sector selection matches default
        * parted/ui.c (command_line_get_fs_type): Don't leak an input "word".

        UI: plug a leak
        * parted/ui.c (command_line_get_fs_type): Don't leak an FS type name
        string.

        bsd: avoid NULL-deref-on-OOM and an error-path leak
        * libparted/labels/bsd.c (bsd_read): Don't dereference NULL on OOM.
        Don't leak a constraint when failing to add a partition.

        linux: don't leak a FILE* upon /proc read failure
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_probe_proc_partitions): Call fclose
        upon failure.

        linux: plug a file descriptor leak
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (read_device_sysfs_file): Don't leak a
        file descriptor.

        tests: t1100-busy-label: don't use mkpartfs; rework to use scsi_debug
        * tests/t1100-busy-label.sh: Remove one last use of mkpartfs.
        Use scsi_debug rather than requiring an explicitly-provided device.

        maint: correct coverity-reported "suspicious sizeof"
        * parted/table.c (table_add_row): Use sizeof(*VAR), rather than
        erroneous sizeof(explicit_type) that just happened to be ok.

        maint: remove unreachable code
        * libparted/labels/sun.c (sun_partition_new): Remove unreachable stmt.
        * libparted/labels/pc98.c (pc98_partition_new): Likewise.

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

2011-05-18  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        post-release administrivia
        * NEWS: Add header line for next release.
        * .prev-version: Record previous version.
        * cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Auto-update.

        version 2.4
        * NEWS: Record release date.

        shared library version: increment REVISION
        * libparted/Makefile.am (REVISION): Increment, since there have
        been changes to the library, but no interface addition or removal.
        * README-release: Mention the shared-library version update procedure.

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

        tests: avoid nasty FP-causing race condition
        * tests/t9040-many-partitions.sh: Remove all partitions before
        exiting -- otherwise, the rmmod-prompted removal of those many
        partitions would continue long after rmmod completion and the
        release of the scsi_debug lock, and thus partition-device removals
        provoked by this test would cause failure in the subsequent test,
        e.g., when the devices for partitions 14,15,16 have just been
        successfully created (verified that they exist), yet the next
        step -- to create a file system on one of them -- fails or is
        erroneously skipped because the device has been removed asynchronously.

        tests: add double quotes around another use of $VERBOSE
        * tests/t-local.sh (scsi_debug_setup_): Quote another $VERBOSE.

        build: list bc as a build-requirement
        * bootstrap.conf (buildreq): Also require "bc", since it's used
        in some of 'make check's tests.

2011-05-17  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: remove tests that are too FS-centric
        * tests/t2100-mkswap.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/t3000-resize-fs.sh: Remove file, now that all FS-ops are gone.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Remove them here, too.

        linux: fix diagnostic about operating on very small file or device
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (init_file): Correct diagnostic.
        Parted would claim that a small-but-non-empty file has zero length.

        bfs: remove unused files

        tests: add double quotes around a use of $VERBOSE
        * tests/t-local.sh (scsi_debug_cleanup_): Add missing double quotes.

2011-05-12  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: avoid new, spurious test failure
        * tests/t9050-partition-table-types.sh: Use a "device size"
        that is large enough to accommodate 1KiB and 4KiB sectors.
        The original size, 3MiB was too small for a dvh partition
        with PARTED_SECTOR_SIZE=1024.  Increase it to 30MiB.

        tests: adapt t1101-busy-partition not to use mkpartfs
        * tests/t1101-busy-partition.sh: Use mkfs.vfat instead.

2011-05-11  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: write all pairs of partition table types
        * tests/t9050-partition-table-types.sh: New file.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.

2011-05-10  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: add a NEWS entry and a test to exercise today's bug fix
        * tests/t9041-undetected-in-use-16th-partition: New file.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
        * NEWS (Bug fixes): Describe it.

2011-05-10  Phillip Susi  <psusi@cfl.rr.com>

        linux: also detect "in-use" dmraid and scsi-Nth (N>=16) partitions
        Prior to this change, Parted would fail to detect any in-use
        partition on a dmraid disk, as well as any in-use partition
        numbered 16 or greater on a regular scsi disk.
        This was because assumptions were being made about the device node
        major/minor numbers and how they relate to the partition number.
        These assumptions are invalid for dmraid devices, and for normal
        disks with >= 16 partitions.
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_partition_get_part_dev): Remove function.
        (_partition_is_mounted): Rewrite to use _partition_is_mounted_by_path
        instead of _by_dev.

2011-05-10  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

        tests: avoid subtle shell semantics bug
        This bug was causing some root-only tests to be mistakenly skipped.
        This bash command will always exit successfully,
        i.e., the "return 1" will never happen:
          bash -c 'f(){ local f=$(false)||return 1; return 0; }; f'
        That's because the assignment always succeeds, and that success
        is what determines the return value, not the $(...) command.
        This is very counter-intuitive, sigh.
        The work-around is to separate the declaration and assignment, as in
        local f; f=$(...) || ...
        * tests/t-local.sh (new_sdX_): Do that.
        (gpt_corrupt_primary_table_): Likewise.

        tests: minor fix; add/adjust comments
        * tests/t1101-busy-partition.sh: Don't ignore failed comparison.
        Add a comment.

2011-04-21  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        s390/dasd: avoid buffer overrun upon API mismatch diagnostic
        * libparted/labels/fdasd.c (fdasd_check_api_version): The static
        buffer for the error string was too small.  Double its length.
        This resolves http://bugzilla.redhat.com/693852

2011-04-20  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        linux: fix typo in comment: /path%d => /part%d
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_device_get_part_path): Fix typo in comment.

2011-04-18  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        linux: don't free invalid pointer upon asprintf failure
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_device_get_part_path): When asprintf
        fails, it leaves its first argument in an undefined state, and
        hence that pointer must not be freed.  However, here, in two
        places we could potentially free an invalid pointer.  Use
        zasprintf; then the pointer is either NULL or allocated,
        and hence always freeable.

        linux: clean up device naming code (no semantic change)
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (zasprintf): New function.
        (_device_get_part_path): Clean up:
        Use size_t, not "int" for strlen-returned value.
        Combine mostly duplicate snprintf uses.
        Use zasprintf instead of malloc+snprintf.

        don't reference before start of buffer for short device name
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_device_get_part_path): Avoid invalid
        reference to memory before dev->path when its length is 4 or less.

2011-04-14  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        maint: s/can not/cannot/ in a comment and documentation
        Without this, a new "make syntax-check" rule would fail.
        * libparted/filesys.c: s/can not/cannot/
        * doc/parted-pt_BR.texi (BIOSes and Firmware): Likewise.

        tests: remove now-unused Makefile rule
        * libparted/tests/Makefile.am (old-init.sh): Remove obsolete rule.

        tests: improve t1101-busy-partition.sh
        * tests/t1101-busy-partition.sh: Fail hard upon timeout while
        waiting for device to appear.

        tests: make the tests in libparted/tests work properly once again
        Since switching to init.sh, the root-only tests did not clean up.
        * libparted/tests/Makefile.am (prereq): Always create a symlink
        to tests/init.sh.
        * tests/init.cfg: Source $abs_top_srcdir/tests-relative names,
        not $srcdir-relative names.  This way, it works also when run
        from libparted/tests/.
        * tests/t-local.sh: Likewise.

        tests: avoid a race condition in the scsi_debug-using tests
        * tests/t-local.sh (new_sdX_): New function.
        (scsi_debug_setup_): Use new_sdX_ to find the just-created device name,
        rather relying on the list of file names in /sys/block/sd* changing.
        Sometimes the list would not change, which would lead to tests failing
        with I/O errors when run in parallel.  Thanks to Brian Lane for the
        tip that /sys/block/sd*/device/model contains "scsi_debug" if there
        is a device created by our "modprobe scsi_debug" command.

2011-03-24  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        make parted "do what I say" with IEC start and end values like 5GiB
        In a command like this,
          parted -s -- $dev mklabel gpt mkpart P-NAME 4MB -34s
        parted interprets the "4MB" as merely a suggestion for the starting
        sector number.  It uses half of the MB-units value as a "radius"
        about the sector containing byte 4,000,000, and it may choose some
        other more appropriate sector, based on partition table or alignment
        constraints within the range 3,500,000B..4,500,000B.
        Before, parted handled IEC units, i.e., KiB, MiB, GiB, etc.,
        with identically "helpful" sloppiness, of course honoring the
        power-of-two semantics.
        Now, however if you use IEC units, i.e., KiB, MiB, GiB, etc.,
        the "radius" is taken to be zero, so parted uses precisely
        whatever multiple of a power of two you've specified.
        Hence, adjusting the example above to use MiB, rather than "MB",
          parted -s -- $dev mklabel gpt mkpart P-NAME 4MiB -34s
        With this change, that is equivalent to the following:
          parted -s -- $dev mklabel gpt mkpart P-NAME 4194304B -34s
        I.e., it uses the sector containing precisely that byte, and
        does not perform any "extra" adjustment.
        * libparted/unit.c (is_power_of_2): New function.
        (ped_unit_parse_custom): Use it to avoid interpreting a large
        input string as "sloppy" (i.e. large radius) when it uses IEC
        binary notation like 34KiB, 3GiB and 65TiB.
        * tests/t0207-IEC-binary-notation.sh: New test.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
        * doc/parted.texi (unit): Describe the new behavior.
        * NEWS (Changes in behavior): Mention it here, too.

2011-03-20  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        maint: stop using .x-sc_* files to list syntax-check exemptions
        Instead, use the new mechanism with which you merely use a
        variable (derived from the rule name) defined in cfg.mk to an ERE
        matching the exempted file names.
        * gnulib: Update to latest, to get maint.mk that implements this.
        * .x-sc_GPL_version: Remove file.
        * .x-sc_prohibit_always-defined_macros: Likewise.
        * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Remove them from here, too.
        * cfg.mk: Define variables to exempt the same files.

2011-03-16  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        maint: rename a variable
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (_header_is_valid): Rename a variable,
        and switch to more readable range-checking logic.

        gpt: avoid division by zero
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (_header_is_valid): Reject as invalid if
        FirstUsableLBA < 3.
        (gpt_get_max_supported_partition_count): Ensure that we don't divide
        by zero: verify that the GPT header is valid before dividing by its
        "size of partition entry".  Under normal circumstances, the on-disk
        PE size field is reasonable because we have just written it.  However,
        there are two ways it can end up zero: we lose the race when some other
        process pokes a 4-byte 0 into just the right location between when
        we write it and when we re-read the value we're about to divide by.
        Then there's the case that I encountered: using an old USB (8MB) key,
        mklabel gpt failed due to division by zero.  The device reported no
        failure when writing the initial header, yet when reading back that
        very same sector (also successful), parted got all 0 bytes.
        * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.

        build: enable compilation warnings also for new nilfs2 subdir
        * libparted/fs/nilfs2/Makefile.am (AM_CFLAGS): Define.

        nilfs2: remove unused nilfs2_clobber function
        * libparted/fs/nilfs2/nilfs2.c (nilfs2_clobber): Remove unused
        function.
        (nilfs2_ops) [clobber]: Always set to NULL.

        maint: avoid shadowing warning
        * parted/parted.c (do_mkpart): Rename inner added_ok to add_ok.

        build: don't let parted_CFLAGS override our AM_CFLAGS setting
        * parted/Makefile.am (parted_CFLAGS): Remove unused (and interfering)
        definition.

        maint: avoid new compiler warnings
        * parted/parted.c (do_print): Remove now-unused "error" label.
        (_print_disk_info): Use one more "const" attribute, to avoid
        compiler warnings.

2011-03-16  Petr Uzel  <petr.uzel@suse.cz>

        tests: do not fail if some utilities are missing
        * tests/t1700-probe-fs.sh: Skip the test if mkfs.ext3 or tune2fs
        is missing or is not in $PATH.

        tests: test 'parted print' with empty disk
        * tests/t0101-print-empty.sh: New test.
        * tests/Makefile.am: Add it.

2011-03-16  Petr Uzel  <petr.uzel@suse.cz>

        parted: rework 'parted print' so that it works with empty disk
        'parted $dev print' on a device without a partition table used to fail
        with an 'unrecognised disk label' error, without printing the following:
        disk model, transport, size, sector size, BIOS geometry
        all of which are available, and do not dependent on the partition table.

        With this patch, parted prints all of this information (BIOS geometry
        only if 'unit cyl' is specified) and reports success even if the disk
        does not have a valid partition table.

        As a side efect, 'parted $dev print devices/all/list' now prints
        information about all the devices, even if $dev does not have a
        partition table.

        * parted/parted.c (_print_disk_info): New function.
        (do_print): Do not immediately fail if the partition table is not
        recognized, but print disk information and report success instead.
        * NEWS (Changes in behavior): Mention it.

2011-03-16  Petr Uzel  <petr.uzel@suse.cz>

        parted: factor out disk geometry printing into separate function
        * parted/parted.c (_print_disk_geometry): New function.
        (do_print): Use _print_disk_geometry.

2011-03-05  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        Remove PED_ASSERT action argument
        The action argument was a leftover from when the PED_ASSERT macro was
        last changed. This removes that argument from the macro and from all
        occurrences of it.

2011-03-05  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        Remove PED_ASSERT from dos geometry checking
        The CHS geometry values are calculated based on the existing partition
        information. The values can't always be calculated, and the partition
        may be corrupt so instead of throwing an assertion just return 0 and
        carry on.

        I left the logic for the PED_ASSERT checks the same so that it is clear
        that the logic has not changed, it just returns 0 now.

        * libparted/labels/dos.c (probe_partition_for_geom): remove PED_ASSERT

2011-03-05  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: add a minimal nilfs2 test
        * tests/t1700-probe-fs.sh: Adapt to also test nilfs2.

2011-03-04  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: rename a test script, before extending it to handle nilfs
        * tests/t1700-probe-fs.sh: Rename from ...
        * tests/t1700-ext-probe.sh: ...this.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Rename it here, too.

2011-02-26  Jiro SEKIBA  <jir@unicus.jp>

        libparted: add nilfs2 module
        * libparted/fs/nilfs2/Makefile.am: New file.
        * libparted/fs/nilfs2/nilfs2.c: New file.
        (is_valid_nilfs_sb, nilfs2_probe, nilfs2_clobber): New functions.
        (ped_file_system_nilfs2_init, ped_file_system_nilfs2_done): Likewise.
        (nilfs2_ops, nilfs2_type): Define.
        * libparted/fs/Makefile.am (SUBDIRS): Add nilfs2.
        * configure.ac (AC_OUTPUT): Add the new Makefile.
        * libparted/libparted.c: Declare and use the _init and _done functions.

        Add a new fs module to provide following:
        - probe nilfs2 filesystem partition
        - clobber nilfs2 filesystem partition

        The is_valid_nilfs_sb function came from the grub nilfs2 module,
        which is written by me and assigned to FSF.

2011-02-26  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        maint: two files lacked a newline at EOF: add one to each
        * include/Makefile.am: Add newline at end of file.
        * libparted/fs/jfs/Makefile.am: Likewise.

        tests: t3310-flags: check all gpt boolean flags, too
        * tests/t3310-flags.sh: Check gpt as well as msdos flags.
        Parametrize mkpart usage.
        Accommodate gpt-induced difference in parted's print output
        GPT partitions have a name, while msdos ones do not.
        This also fixes the "on_and_off" perl flag extraction regexp,
        which before was using $1 with no corresponding () group.

        tests: prepare t3310-flags to check gpt boolean flags, too
        * tests/t3310-flags.sh: Put a loop around the body of the test,
        and factor out the partition table name.

        tests: remove useless commands
        * tests/t3310-flags.sh: Remove useless exp-manipulating commands.

2011-02-26  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        gpt: add legacy_boot partition flag
        Add support for the Legacy BIOS Bootable flag in the GPT
        Attribute field.  This is used by software like syslinux to
        determine which partition to boot when in BIOS mode.

        See Page 105, Table 19 Bit 2 of the UEFI Spec 2.3 book.

        * doc/C/parted.8: Document legacy_boot.
        * doc/parted.texi: Document legacy_boot.
        * include/parted/disk.h: Add PED_PARTITION_LEGACY_BOOT flag.
        * libparted/disk.c (ped_partition_flag_get_name): Add legacy_boot flag.
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (_parse_part_entry):
        (_partition_generate_part_entry, gpt_partition_new):
        (gpt_partition_set_flag, gpt_partition_get_flag):
        (gpt_partition_is_flag_available): Add legacy_boot flag support.

2011-02-26  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        gpt: add partition attribute bits: NoBlockIOProtocol, LegacyBIOSBootable
        Add NoBlockIOProtocol and LegacyBIOSBootable flags to the GPT partition
        Attributes entry.

2011-02-26  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        doc: regenerate partprobe .pot and .po files
        * doc/C/po/partprobe.8.pot: Slight syntax update induced by newer tool.
        * doc/pt_BR/partprobe.8.pt_BR.po: Likewise.

        tests: move test_description= variable to a comment
        test-lib.sh-based tests required a test_description= definition.
        When testing switched to init.sh, which by convention uses a brief
        comment on line 2 instead, some instances were not converted.
        * libparted/tests/t1000-label.sh: Put test description on line 2.
        Remove now-unused test_description= definition.
        * libparted/tests/t2000-disk.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/t0220-gpt-msftres.sh: Likewise.

2011-02-23  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        s390: avoid warnings
        * libparted/labels/vtoc.c (vtoc_read_volume_label): Remove decl
        of unused var.
        * libparted/labels/fdasd.c (fdasd_valid_vtoc_pointer): Return
        a value also when successful.
        * libparted/labels/dasd.c (dasd_alloc_metadata): Initialize "part"
        to NULL solely to avoid a spurious used-uninitialized warning.

2011-02-23  Stephen Powell  <zlinuxman@wowway.com>

        doc: add NEWS entries for s390 fix and improvements

2011-02-23  Stephen Powell  <zlinuxman@wowway.com>

        s390: make DIAG driver work for FBA DASD with block size > 512
        In order to make the DIAG driver work for FBA DASD with a block
        size greater than 512, I had to make a rather awkward patch to
        C function vtoc_read_volume_label in libparted/labels/vtoc.c.
        The "right" logic would be "If this is an FBA DASD device
        using the DIAG driver, and the effective block size used by the
        DIAG driver is greater than 512, then do it this way.  Else,
        do it the normal way."  (Note that when using the FBA driver,
        the effective block size is always 512, regardless of the CMS
        logical block size stored in the volume label.  The DIAG driver,
        on the other hand, honors the CMS logical block size.)

        The problem is that the information needed to make that decision
        has not been provided to the routine (via the parameter list).
        So what I ended up doing is assuming the normal way, then if
        I don't find a recognized volume label header (VOL1, LNX1,
        or CMS1, in EBCDIC), then I assumed that it must be the special
        case.  So in the special case I end up doing an unnecessary
        read.  It's a kludge, but it works.

2011-02-23  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: new script to generate 9-pte-GPT-tables

        cleanup: use verify, not PED_ASSERT to check struct sizes
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c: Use compile-time "verify" rather than
        run-time PED_ASSERT to ensure struct sizes are as expected.

2011-02-23  Stephen Powell  <zlinuxman@wowway.com>

        s390: improve/correct DASD support
        The long title would be "corrections to partition size and location
        calculations for type 1 partitions for s390 dasd".

        This could be treated as two separate fixes, one to make corrections
        for LDL formatted disks and one to add support for CMS formatted
        disks.  I see CMS formatted disks as a variant of LDL formatted
        disks, with the additional twist that CMS formatted disks can
        be reserved or recomped, which LDL formatted disks cannot be.
        This affects the size and location of the partition.

        With these patches, parted matches the behavior of the Linux kernel
        in recognizing partitions on CMS- and LDL-formatted disks, as documented
        in the Linux kernel source code in routine fs/partitions/ibm.c.
        Calculation of the metadata has also been changed so that parted will
        show no free space on such a disk.  In some cases there are now two
        non-contiguous metadata extents: one at the beginning of the disk and
        one at the end.

        As before, parted only supports CKD DASD using the ECKD driver.
        FBA DASD and CKD DASD using the DIAG driver are still not supported.

        In my regression testing I have discovered some problems in the area
        of recognizing file system options.  However, since I can duplicate
        these errors on a version of parted which does not contain my changes,
        I have concluded that my changes did not cause this and therefore
        this is an unrelated bug.

2011-02-22  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        maint: update from gnulib
        * bootstrap: Update from gnulib.
        * tests/init.sh: Likewise.
        * gnulib: Update submodule to latest.

        maint: update copyright year ranges to include 2011
        Run "make update-copyright".

        maint: update copyright date in parted.texi
        * doc/parted.texi: Update copyright date.

2010-12-30  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        maint: don't hard-code bug-reporting address
        * libparted/exception.c (default_handler): Use PACKAGE_BUGREPORT
        rather than hard-coding bug-parted@...
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (_parse_header) [DISCOVER_ONLY]: Don't
        mention the bug-reporting address explicitly, since ped_exception_throw
        is about to do just that.

2010-12-16  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        maint: correct typos in HACKING
        * HACKING: Don't reference grep everywhere.  I copied grep's
        HACKING and forgot to s/grep/parted/ (slightly different for
        the repository, since it's at git.debian.org, not Savannah).
        2010-11-25  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

2010-12-15  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        default to 1MiB alignment when possible
        Change the linux_get_optimum_alignment() function to prefer
        aligning partitions to PED_DEFAULT_ALIGNMENT (1MiB), if possible.
        This helps tools like anaconda better support 4k sector drives.

        * include/parted/parted.h (PED_DEFAULT_ALIGNMENT): Define.
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (linux_get_optimum_alignment): Adjust.
        See comments for details.
        * libparted/device.c (ped_device_get_optimum_alignment): Use
        PED_DEFAULT_ALIGNMENT rather than hard-coded 1048576.
        * tests/t9020-alignment.sh: Adjust expectations to match new behavior.
        See http://bugzilla.redhat.com/618255 for details.

2010-11-22  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: don't rely on "lockfile" program
        * tests/t-local.sh (scsi_debug_acquire_lock_): Use mkdir, rather
        that lockfile.  The latter is not always available.
        (scsi_debug_lock_dir_): Rename, now that it's a dir.
        (scsi_debug_cleanup_): Remove it with rm -rf.
        Fix typo in diag: s/rrmod/rmmod/

        tests: remove vestiges of test-lib.sh
        * tests/t-lib-helpers.sh (require_mdadm_): Remove vestiges of
        test-lib.sh (aka uses of the "say" and "test_done" functions).
        (require_xfs_): Likewise.

        tests: avoid spurious failure
        * tests/t6000-dm.sh: Sanitize directory name, to avoid spurious
        failure due to e.g., mount-related differences.

2010-11-22  Brian C. Lane  <bcl@redhat.com>

        linux: remove DASD restriction on _disk_sync_part_table
        * libparted/arch/linux.c: Include <assert.h>.
        (linux_disk_commit): Assert that _have_blkpg returns true
        and don't skip _disk_sync_part_table for DASD devices.
        Otherwise, when creating a partition on a DASD device,
        new /dev/*[12...] device files would not be created.
        Also, remove obsolete comment about DevFS.
        For details, see http://bugzilla.redhat.com/651478
        and http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.parted.bugs/10191

2010-11-21  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest
        avoid new syntax-check failures
        * .x-sc_cross_check_PATH_usage_in_tests: New file.
        * .x-sc_bindtextdomain: New file.

2010-11-20  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: adjust cleanup_ handler to work with init.sh
        * tests/init.cfg (cleanup_, cleanup_fn_, cleanup_final_): Define.
        * tests/t-local.sh (cleanup_final_): Use this to ensure that we
        always release the lock and run rmmod.  Overriding the trap did not
        do the job.
        * libparted/tests/t2100-zerolen.sh: Use cleanup_fn_, not cleanup_.
        * tests/t1100-busy-label.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/t1101-busy-partition.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/t4100-dvh-partition-limits.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/t4100-msdos-partition-limits.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/t6000-dm.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/t8000-loop.sh: Likewise.

        tests: t3000-resize-fs.sh: don't expect fs-op warning
        * tests/t3000-resize-fs.sh: Don't expect fs-op warning.
        The testing framework now suppresses it.

        tests: t-lvm.sh (lvm_init_root_dir_): Fix it to use $test_dir_

        tests: remove t-lib.sh
        * tests/t-lib.sh: Remove file.  No longer used.
        * tests/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Remove t-lib.sh.
        * tests/t-lib-helpers.sh: Don't mention this file name.
        * tests/t-local.sh: Likewise.

2010-11-20  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: switch from t-lib.sh to init.sh
        * tests/init.cfg: Source t-local.sh.
        * tests/t-local.sh: Replace trap so that we always run
        scsi_debug_cleanup_, regardless of the cleanup_ function.
        Replace each snippet like this:
        -if test "$VERBOSE" = yes; then
        -  set -x
        -  parted --version
        -fi
        -
        -: ${srcdir=.}
        -. $srcdir/t-lib.sh
        +. "${srcdir=.}/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ../parted

        Use this command (LHS elided, because it was too long):
          git grep -l 'srcdir/t-lib.sh'|xargs perl -p0i -e \
            's!...!. "\${srcdir=.}/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ../parted\n!'

        * tests/t3310-flags.sh: Adjust manually, since the snippet
        didn't quite match.

2010-11-20  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: remove test-lib.sh
        * tests/test-lib.sh: Remove file.  No longer used.
        * tests/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Remove test-lib.sh.
        (old-init.sh): Remove rule and associated uses.
        * tests/lvm-utils.sh (init_root_dir_): Switch to test_dir_,
        since that is now the only variable that remains.

        tests: remove fail=0 initializations
        Now, this is done in init.sh.

        tests: libparted/tests: use init.sh, not test-lib.sh

        tests: make lvm-utils.sh usable also from init.sh-using tests
        * tests/lvm-utils.sh: Use fail_, not error for diagnostics.
        The former also works in init.sh-using scripts.
        (init_root_dir_): Use test_dir_ if $test_dir_rand_ is not set.

        tests: new function required for t2100-zerolen.sh
        * tests/t-lib-helpers.sh (device_mapper_required_): New function.

        tests: convert t5000-tags.sh

        tests: t-lib-helpers.sh: don't discard require_dvhtool_ stderr/stdout

        tests: dvhtool: use skip_, not skip

        tests: t4200-partprobe.sh: convert

        tests: t-lib-helpers.sh (require_dvhtool_): New function.

        tests: convert t4000-sun-raid-type.sh

        tests: move more functions to t-lib-helpers.sh

        tests: convert t7000 to init.sh

        tests: t-lib-helpers: copy emit_superuser_warning from test-lib.sh

        tests: t0000: convert to use init.sh

        tests: convert t1101-busy-partition.sh
        * tests/t1101-busy-partition.sh: Convert from t-lib.sh to init.sh.

        tests: convert t4100-msdos-partition-limits.sh
        * tests/t4100-msdos-partition-limits.sh: Likewise.

        tests: convert t4100-dvh-partition-limits.sh to use init.sh
        * tests/t4100-dvh-partition-limits.sh: Convert.

        tests: convert t4100-msdos-starting-sector.sh
        * tests/t4100-msdos-starting-sector.sh: Use init.sh.

        tests: convert t0220 to use init.sh
        * tests/t0220-gpt-msftres.sh: Convert to use init.sh.

        tests: extract t-lib.sh functions for use via init.sh
        Currently there are three test frameworks in use:
          - test-lib.sh: old, don't use this framework any more;
              I found it too hard to use and debug.
          - t-lib.sh: newer, I had converted most tests to use this
          - init.sh: newest: successor of t-lib.sh, the master copy
              of which now resides in gnulib. All new tests should use
              this framework.
        * tests/t-lib-helpers.sh: New file, extracted from t-lib.sh,
        so that init.cfg can source these functions, too.
        * tests/t-lib.sh: Source it.
        * tests/init.cfg: Source it from here, too.
        * tests/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add t-lib-helpers.sh.

        tests: remove unused function: skip_if_

        tests: global subst: s/skip_test_/skip_/
        git grep -l skip_test_|xargs perl -pi -e 's/skip_test_/skip_/'

        maint: remove unused test function
        * tests/t-lib.sh (require_built_): Remove unused function.
        It also happened to use skip_, which we're about to make a function.

        tests: avoid race condition in t3000-resize
        Without the 1-second sleep, this root-only test would
        fail about 50% of the time for me.
        * tests/t3000-resize-fs.sh (device_sectors_required): Sleep
        one more second after ${dev}1 appears, so that subsequent
        commands are more predictable.
        Split a long line.

        tests: t2100-mkswap.sh: convert to init.sh
        * tests/t2100-mkswap: Likewise.

        tests: convert t1100 to use init.sh
        * tests/t1100-busy-label.sh: Convert to use init.sh
        * tests/init.cfg (require_erasable_): New function, mostly
        copied from test-lib.sh.

        tests: init.cfg: copy envvar setings from testlib.sh:
        Unset TERM and CDPATH; sanitize LC_ALL, TZ, LANG, and set
        PARTED_SUPPRESS_FILE_SYSTEM_MANIPULATION_WARNING=1.
        * tests/t1101-busy-partition.sh: Expect no output, now that we set
        PARTED_SUPPRESS_FILE_SYSTEM_MANIPULATION_WARNING=1.

        maint: update init.sh and bootstrap from gnulib
        * tests/init.sh: Update from gnulib.
        * bootstrap: Likewise.

        doc: also mention KiB, MiB, GiB and TiB suffixes
        * doc/parted.texi (unit): Also mention KiB, MiB, GiB and TiB.

2010-11-18  Colin Watson  <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>

        libparted: ignore zero-length devices
        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add xstrtoll.
        * configure.ac: Create DYNAMIC_LOADING output variable.
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_device_get_length): Return the value of
        PARTED_TEST_DEVICE_LENGTH if set in the environment, strictly for use by
        the test suite.
        (init_generic): If geometry probing fails because the device was
        zero-length, return quietly rather than throwing an exception.  This has
        been observed in the wild with cciss devices, and it's difficult for
        partitioners to tell the difference between that and more serious
        errors.
        * libparted/tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add t2100-zerolen.sh.
        (check_PROGRAMS): Add zerolen.
        (zerolen_SOURCES): Add.
        (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Add DYNAMIC_LOADING and ENABLE_DEVICE_MAPPER.
        * libparted/tests/t2100-zerolen.sh: New file.
        * libparted/tests/zerolen.c: New file.
        * tests/test-lib.sh (wait_for_dev_to_appear_): New function, copied from
        tests/t-local.sh.
        * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.

2010-11-09  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        dos: fix a bug affecting very small devices (smaller than 1 cylinder)
        This bug was introduced in commit c79d91ec, "dos: accommodate very
        small devices (useful for testing)".
        * libparted/labels/dos.c (_primary_constraint): The bug was to
        skip setting start_geom for small devices.  That led to a used-
        uninitialized bug in the subsequent ped_constraint_new call.
        The fix is to relax the constraint to use a starting sector of "1",
        if necessary.  Report and diagnosis by Jean-Christian de Rivaz in
        http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.parted.bugs/10178
        * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.

2010-10-10  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        maint: don't use obsolete gnulib modules
        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Use calloc-gnu, malloc-gnu
        and realloc-gnu modules, rather than calloc, malloc and realloc.
        The shorter-named modules are now deprecated.

        maint: describe policy on copyright year number ranges
        * README: Mention coreutils' long-standing policy on use of M-N
        ranges in copyright year lists.  Requested by Richard Stallman.

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest, and update bootstrap
        * bootstrap: update from gnulib

2010-08-23  Petr Uzel  <petr.uzel@suse.cz>

        build: suggest libuuid from util-linux-ng package
        * configure.ac: libuuid was moved from e2fsprogs to
        util-linux-ng-2.16.  Because distributions now often
        build e2fsprogs without libuuid support, suggest installing
        libuuid from util-linux-ng if it is missing, not from e2fsprogs.

2010-08-20  Colin Watson  <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>

        libparted: remove limits on loop labels
        There's no reason to impose any particular limit on loop labels, since
        they just represent a single large partition.  Sector counts over 2^32
        are needed for large RAID arrays.  Change the limit to 2^64 since that's
        the upper limit imposed by libparted and it saves us implementing the
        limit functions separately.  This bug appears to have been introduced
        by commit 2dbc645c.

        * libparted/labels/pt-limit.gperf: Change limits on "loop" to 2^64.
        * tests/t9021-maxima.sh: Update for the new loop limit.
        * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.

2010-08-18  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        avoid non-srcdir "make check" failure
        * tests/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add init.cfg.
        The failure was introduced by commit 6f7c0f12.

        build and tests: update bootstrap and init.sh from gnulib
        * tests/init.sh: Update from gnulib.
        * bootstrap: Likewise.

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

2010-07-20  Hans de Goede  <hdegoede@redhat.com>

        linux: recognize scsi disks with a high major number (128-135)
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (SCSI_BLK_MAJOR): Recognize high major number.

2010-07-17  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        libparted: avoid regression when processing a whole-disk FAT partition
        Without this change, we would improperly classify a whole-disk partition
        containing a FAT file system as a DOS partition table with no partitions.
        Introduced by commit d732a2b7 on 2008-05-28.
        * libparted/labels/dos.c (maybe_FAT): New function.
        (msdos_probe): Use it.
        Reported by ChenMin in
        http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.parted.bugs/10115
        * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
        * tests/t3400-whole-disk-FAT-partition.sh: New file.  Test for the bug.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.

2010-07-17  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: use init.cfg; required for init.sh-using tests
        * tests/init.cfg: New file.
        (require_512_byte_sector_size_): Slightly different function
        than the one in test-lib.sh.

        * tests/init.cfg: New file.

2010-07-17  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

        maint: remove trailing blank
        * tests/t1101-busy-partition.sh: Remove trailing blank.

2010-06-30  Otavio Salvador  <otavio@ossystems.com.br>

        tests: update resize-fs to use wait_for_dev_to_appear_
        * t3000-resize-fs.sh: rely on wait_for_dev_to_appear_ to wait for the
        device to be crated.

        tests: rely on require_scsi_debug_module_ to modprobe scsi_debug module
        * t2310-dos-extended-2-sector-min-offset.sh: remove explicit modprobe
        since it is done by require_scsi_debug_module_.
        * t3200-type-change.sh: likewise.
        * t9020-alignment.sh: likewise.
        * t9030-align-check.sh: likewise.
        * t9040-many-partitions.sh: likewise.

2010-06-30  Otavio Salvador  <otavio@ossystems.com.br>

        tests: add one: try to remove a busy partition
        This test tries to reproduce the issue reported in Debian bug #582818[1].

         1. http://bugs.debian.org/582818

        Basically it does:

         * create two primary partitions
         * mount the second one
         * remove the first (must work)
         * try to remove the second (must fail)

        * tests/t1101-busy-partition.sh: new file.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): add the new test in check target.

2010-06-26  Otavio Salvador  <otavio@ossystems.com.br>

        tests: skip loop-clobber-infloop if mkswap cannot be found
        * tests/t0400-loop-clobber-infloop.sh: Skip the test is case of mkswap
        cannot be found.

2010-06-26  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest
        * bootstrap: Update from gnulib.
        * tests/init.sh: Likewise.

2010-06-26  Colin Watson  <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>

        sun: revert "implement disk flag operations"
        This reverts the libparted/labels/sun.c part of
        723ea23c5df68cbe67d1f518ef484f4c77f516fa.  Sun disk labels do
        not appear to be able to handle non-cylinder alignment
        (http://bugs.debian.org/579948).
        * libparted/labels/sun.c: Revert.

2010-06-26  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: adjust sun-partition-creating test to conform
        * tests/t4000-sun-raid-type.sh: Adjust partition size so the
        end falls on a cylinder boundary.

2010-05-28  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        maint: update README-release
        * README-release: Update to match the template used for diffutils,
        coreutils, etc.

        maint: add gettext to list of bootstrapped-with tools in announcement
        * cfg.mk (bootstrap-tools): Add gettext to the list.

        post-release administrivia
        * NEWS: Add header line for next release.
        * .prev-version: Record previous version.
        * cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Auto-update.

        version 2.3
        * NEWS: Record release date.

        doc: regenerate two files using gettext-0.18
        * doc/pt_BR/partprobe.8.pt_BR.po: Regenerate with gettext-0.18.
        * doc/C/po/partprobe.8.pot: Likewise.

        build: require gettext-0.18 after all, because
        since gnulib is pulling in m4/gettext.m4 from 0.18, and there's
        a cross-check between that file and po/Makefile.in.in, it's easiest
        simply to require 0.18 of those who run build tools.  Otherwise,
        requiring 0.17, build-from-git would fail due to the mismatch:
        0.17 in Makefile.in.in and 0.18 in m4/gettext.m4.
        * configure.ac (AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION): Require gettext 0.18.

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

        maint: use the do-release-commit-and-tag module from gnulib
        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add do-release-commit-and-tag.

2010-05-28  Petr Uzel  <petr.uzel@suse.cz>

        doc: fix a typo
        * doc/parted.texi: s/onstraints/constraints/

        parted: do_align_check returns always 1 in interactive mode
        * parted/parted.c (do_align_check): Always return 1 in interactive mode.

2010-05-28  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        build: really use gettext-0.17
        * configure.ac: Correct previous change to use 0.17, not 0.18,
        since gettext-0.18 is new enough that it makes building from git
        a little too inconvenient.  Spotted by Petr Uzel.

2010-05-26  Petr Uzel  <petr.uzel@suse.cz>

        parted: make align-check work in interactive mode
        * parted/parted.c (do_align_check): rework the function so that
        it reports partition alignment in interactive mode as described in
        documentation.

        parted: initialize align_type to default value
        * parted/parted.c (do_align_check): Initialize align_type to
        default alignment; this prevents reading of uninitialized memory
        later in command_line_get_align_type()

        parted: plug memory leak
        * parted/parted.c (_done_messages): Free unit_msg.

2010-05-26  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: avoid spurious failure of the root-only many-partitions test
        * tests/t9040-many-partitions.sh: When creating a scsi_debug
        device, honor the block size suggested by the PARTED_SECTOR_SIZE
        environment variable, and thus required in expected output.

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

        maint: remove useless definitions
        * libparted/fs/xfs/platform_defs.h [__sparc__] (O_DIRECT):
        Remove now-unneeded definition.
        * parted/table.c (wchar_t): Remove definition.
        * parted/strlist.c (wchar_t): Likewise.
        * .x-sc_prohibit_always-defined_macros: New file.
        Exempt two files from this syntax-check rule.
        * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add it here.

        maint: update helper scripts
        * tests/help-version: Update from coreutils.
        * bootstrap: Update from gnulib.
        * tests/init.sh: Likewise.

        build: use gettext-0.17
        * configure.ac: Use gettext-0.17.
        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Use gettext-h, not gettext.
        since the latter drags in a depedency on gettext 0.18.

2010-05-25  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        fix typo in comment

2010-05-10  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        libparted: fail (don't just warn) upon failure to inform kernel of...
        partition change(s).
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_disk_sync_part_table): Throw an error, not
        merely a warning.  When this fails, it indicates that the kernel has
        not been informed, and that must translate to an error, since doing
        otherwise would violate the contract of ped_disk_commit_to_os.
        Suggested by Hans De Goede.

2010-05-06  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: make the new many-partitions test fail if it takes "too long"
        * tests/t9040-many-partitions.sh: Fail if creating 60 partitions
        takes more than a minute.

        maint: use latest bootstrap script from gnulib
        * bootstrap: Sync from gnulib.

2010-05-06  Hans de Goede  <hdegoede@redhat.com>

        gpt: recognize microsoft recovery GUID
        Microsoft advices creating recovery partitions with a GUID of
        de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac, see:
        http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd744301%28WS.10%29.aspx

        This patch makes parted recognize this guid (using the DIAG flag).
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (PARTITION_MSFT_RECOVERY, GPTPartitionData,
        _parse_part_entry, gpt_partition_new, gpt_partition_set_system,
        gpt_partition_set_flag, gpt_partition_get_flag,
        gpt_partition_is_flag_available): Support microsoft recovery GUID.
        * NEWS (New features): Add it.

2010-05-06  Hans de Goede  <hdegoede@redhat.com>

        msdos: recognize id 27 as a diagnostics (recovery) partition type
        msdos partitiontable partition id 27 is recommended by microsoft for
        use as id for recovery partitions, see:
        http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd744364%28WS.10%29.aspx
        http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=534066

        * libparted/labels/dos.c (PARTITION_MSFT_RECOVERY): Define.
        (raw_part_parse): Recognize id 27
        (msdos_partition_set_system): Recognize id 27

2010-05-06  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: add one: create 60 partitions on a scsi device
        * tests/t9040-many-partitions.sh: New test.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
        (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Export AWK to test scripts.
        Inspired by the report of a many-partition test
        taking far longer on RHEL5 than on RHEL4 in
        http://bugzilla.redhat.com/589117

2010-05-05  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        doc: update NEWS
        * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention the ext2 2TiB FS-creation bug.

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

2010-05-05  Martin Poole  <mpoole@redhat.com>

        ext2: don't overflow when creating a partition of size 2TiB or larger
        Without this patch, mkpartfs would succeed in creating an ext2
        partition, but the resulting partition would fail a mkfs.ext2 -f check.
        * libparted/fs/ext2/parted_io.c (do_read): Avoid overflow 32-bit
        sector count overflow for a partition of size 2TiB or larger.
        (do_write): Likewise.
        See http://bugzilla.redhat.com/584057#c16 a reproducer.

2010-04-30  Hans de Goede  <hdegoede@redhat.com>

        _device_unregister: check for unregistering the same device twice
        _device_unregister() can get called 2 times for the same device if
        a libparted user explictly removes the device from the cache using
        ped_device_cache_remove(), it gets called and it then becomes the
        user's responsibility to free the PedDevice by calling
        ped_device_destroy(). ped_device_destroy() will then call
        _device_unregister() a second time with the same device, so if the
        device is not found in the list, do nothing.

        * libparted/device.c(_device_unregister): Check for unregistering
        the same device twice.
        Reported by Jan Stodola in <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/568346>.

2010-04-30  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: avoid root-only/XFS limit test failure on 32-bit system
        * tests/t4100-msdos-partition-limits.sh: Due to an inherent XFS
        limitation on 32-bit systems, this test would fail a set-up
        file creation step for simulated sector sizes of 4K and up.
        Skip this test in those cases.
        Upon dd failure, propagate its diagnostic to output, to make this
        sort of problem easier to diagnose.
        * tests/t4100-dvh-partition-limits.sh: Likewise.

2010-04-30  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        libparted: avoid race in informing the kernel of partition table changes
        When sync'ing a partition table change using the latest
        code, sometimes we'd get an unwarranted failure like this:

            Warning: Partition(s) 1 on /dev/sdd have been written, but we
            have been unable to inform the kernel of the change, probably because
            it/they are in use.  As a result, the old partition(s) will remain in
            use.  You should reboot now before making further changes.

        To be precise, when running the partition-resizing root-only test
        in a loop:

            for i in $(seq 240); do make -C tests check VERBOSE=yes \
            TESTS=t3000-resize-fs.sh >& log.$i && printf . || echo $i $?; done

        I would typically see about 50% of them fail on a Fedora 13 system.
        It was obvious that this was due to a race condition when I found that
        modifying that tests' parted...resize invocation to go via strace changed
        the timing enough to make the test pass every time.

        The fix is to retry the partition-removal step upon any EBUSY failure,
        currently for up to 1 second (retrying up to 100 times, sleeping 10ms
        after each failure).

        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_disk_sync_part_table): Allocate "ok" using
        calloc, now that its initial values matter.
        Retry each removal upon EBUSY-failure.
        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Use gnulib's usleep module.

2010-04-30  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        libparted: variable renaming, minor "goto" reorg
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_disk_sync_part_table): Rename local array:
        s/rets/ok/, for readability.
        Use only a single label, "cleanup:", rather than two: free_rets
        and free_errnums.

        libparted: remove now-worse-than-useless _kernel_reread_part_table
        Now that we're using BLKPG properly, there's no point in using the
        less-functional BLKRRPART ioctl to make the kernel reread the partition
        table.
        More importantly, this function would fail when any partition is in
        use, in spite of our having carefully vetted them via BLKPG ioctls.
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_kernel_reread_part_table): Remove function.
        (linux_disk_commit): Don't call it.

2010-04-29  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: correct a root-only test
        * tests/t2310-dos-extended-2-sector-min-offset.sh: Don't hard-code
        "/dev/sdd5" in expected output.

        maint: avoid code duplication
        * libparted/labels/dos.c (clear_flags): New function.
        Factored (5 times) out of ...
        (msdos_partition_set_flag): ...here.  Use the new function.

2010-04-29  Hans de Goede  <hdegoede@redhat.com>

        dos: add a partition flag for diagnostics / recovery partitions
        msdos partition tables can contain diagnostics partitions (often used
        nowadays as system recovery partitions).  For some users of libparted
        (i.e., anaconda) it is useful to know if a dos partition is a regular
        partition or a diagnostic partition.  For example, see
        <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/534066>.

        * include/parted/disk.h(_PedPartitionFlag): Add PED_PARTITION_DIAG
        * libparted/disk.c(ped_partition_flag_get_name): Add PED_PARTITION_DIAG
        * libparted/labels/dos.c: Add support for PED_PARTITION_DIAG flag
        * doc/parted.texi (set): Document it.

2010-04-28  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: distribute new file, init.sh
        * tests/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add init.sh.

        tests: add help-version test (from coreutils)
        * tests/help-version: New file
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Pass built_programs and VERSION
        to test scripts -- both are required by help-version.
        (TESTS): Add help-version.

        ui: make --help tell where to report bugs
        * parted/ui.c (help_msg): Tell where to report bugs.

        tests: use gnulib's init.sh
        * tests/init.sh: New file, from gnulib.

        tests: rename generated init.sh to old-init.sh
        * tests/Makefile.am (old-init.sh): Rename from init.sh.
        * libparted/tests/Makefile.am: Likewise.
        * tests/test-lib.sh: Rename sole use.
        * .gitignore: Rename here, too.

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

        tests: improved portability
        * tests/test-lib.sh: Don't use test's -a option.

        maint: remove empty lines at end of file
        This lets one more "syntax-check" test pass.
        Run this command:
          git ls-files|grep -v gnulib|xargs perl -pi -0777 -e 's/\n\n+$/\n/'

        maint: pass newer "make syntax-check" tests from gnulib
        * cfg.mk (local-checks-to-skip): Add these, to pass "make syntax-check"
        sc_error_message_uppercase, sc_error_message_period.
        * libparted/fs/ext2/ext2.h: Remove "#if HAVE_INTTYPES_H" guard.

        tests: test all boolean flags
        * tests/t3310-flags.sh: New test, suggested by Hans De Goede.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.

2010-04-27  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        doc: use a valid http:.../AUTHORS URL
        * debug/clearfat/clearfat.c (AUTHORS): Point to the git repo.
        * parted/parted.c (AUTHORS): Likewise.
        * partprobe/partprobe.c (AUTHORS): Likewise.

        * parted/parted.c: Include "version.h".
        (_version): Use Version, not VERSION.

2010-04-27  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        ui: get version number from a separately-compiled file
        * parted/Makefile.am (version.c, version.h): Generate.
        (parted_LDADD): Add libver.a.
        (noinst_LIBRARIES, nodist_libver_a_SOURCES): Define.
        (BUILT_SOURCES): Initialize and append.
        (MAINTAINERCLEANFILES): Update.
        * parted/parted.c: Include "version.h".
        (_version): Use the new global variable, Version, not VERSION.

2010-04-23  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        libparted: _disk_sync_part_table: allow interactive ignore
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_disk_sync_part_table): Change diagnostic
        so that it makes it clear what failed.  Let an interactive "ignore"
        cause the function to succeed.

        tests: remove partition explicitly before mklabel, to avoid new failure
        * tests/t3000-resize-fs.sh: Before, mklabel was sufficient to clear
        the partition table in preparation for the next iteration in this test.
        However, with recent BLKRRPART/BLKPG changes that "mklabel" would evoke
        a warning.  Remove the sole partition to avoid that.

        libparted: linux_disk_commit: don't ignore _disk_sync_part_table failure
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (linux_disk_commit):
        When calling _disk_sync_part_table, always return its result.

        libparted: _disk_sync_part_table: always return 0 upon failure
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_disk_sync_part_table):
        Return 0 (not 1) upon failure.

2010-04-23  Colin Watson  <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>

        dos: always allow at least two sectors for extended boot record
        Unless specifically told otherwise, the Linux kernel considers extended
        boot records to be two sectors long, in order to "leave room for LILO".
        When using anything other than cylinder alignment, libparted was only
        allowing one sector in the minimum extended partition geometry, which in
        some situations (e.g. following Phillip Susi's patch to reintroduce
        BLKPG) could confuse the kernel into thinking that the EBR and the first
        logical partition overlapped.

        * libparted/labels/dos.c (_get_min_extended_part_geom): Allow at least
        two sectors for the extended boot record.

2010-04-23  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: test for new 2-sector minimum ext-logical-separation
        * tests/t2310-dos-extended-2-sector-min-offset.sh: New file.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.

        dos: accommodate very small devices (useful for testing)
        * libparted/labels/dos.c (_primary_constraint): Don't pass a negative
        "device_length" to ped_geometry_init when the underlying device
        has fewer sectors than a "cylinder".

        libparted: allocate storage for diagnostic only when needed
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_disk_sync_part_table): Rename local:
        s/parts/bad_part_list/
        Allocate space for it only if needed.
        Use malloc rather than ped_malloc.
        Move decl of FD down to first use.

        libparted: adjust code formatting

        libparted: reword a diagnostic

2010-04-23  Phillip Susi  <psusi@cfl.rr.com>

        libparted: improve BLKPG error checking
        This patch cleans up the BLKPG code that the previous patch put back
        to perform proper error checking and in the event that some partitions
        are in use, they can not be modified in the running kernel using BLKPG.
        Warn the user that this is the case and advise them to reboot, just like
        we do when BLKRRPART fails for the same reason, unless the partition in
        question is unchanged.

        libparted: reenable use of BLKPG ioctls
        This patch effectively reverses commit 1d8f9bec which removed the code
        using the new BLKPG ioctls instead of the old BLKRRPART ioctl to update
        the in-kernel partition table.  The reason for this is because BLKRRPART
        fails if any partition on the disk is in use, but the BLKPG ioctls allow
        you to manipulate the other partitions on the disk without requiring a
        reboot.  Also BLKRRPART requires that the kernel understand the
        partition table on the disk, which may not always be the case.

2010-04-23  Hans de Goede  <hdegoede@redhat.com>

        linux: detect dm_task_run failure
        We were checking for a return value of < 0 for dm_task_run errors, but
        dm_task_run returns 0 on error (and 1 on success). Thanks to Joe Jin
        for spotting this, see Red Hat bug 582907.

        * libparted/arch/linux.c(_dm_remove_map_name, _dm_is_part,
        _dm_remove_parts, _dm_add_partition): dm_task_run returns 0 on error.

2010-04-21  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: test for palo and prep interaction
        * tests/t3300-palo-prep.sh: New file.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.

2010-04-21  Hans de Goede  <hdegoede@redhat.com>

        dos: fix prep / palo flag handling
        Setting the prep flag was not clearing the palo flag and vice versa
        * libparted/labels/dos.c (msdos_partition_set_flag): Fix prep / palo
        flag handling.

2010-04-21  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: remove unnecessary (duplicate) local var assignment
        * tests/t9021-maxima.sh: Remove duplicate ss=$sector_size_.

2010-04-21  Colin Watson  <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>

        maint: make PED_ASSERT and PED_DEBUG if-safe
        Constructions such as:

          if (foo)
            PED_DEBUG (0, "foo");
          else
            PED_DEBUG (0, "not foo");

        did not compile reliably, depending on the configuration.  Make this
        work.

        * include/parted/debug.h [DEBUG && __GNUC__ && !__JSFTRACE__]
        (PED_DEBUG): Remove trailing semicolon.
        [!DEBUG] (PED_ASSERT): Use do-while rather than while.
        [!DEBUG] (PED_DEBUG): Likewise.

2010-04-17  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        doc: add HACKING
        * HACKING: New file.  Copied from coreutils, with s/coreutils/parted/
        and a few minor edits.

2010-04-16  Petr Uzel  <petr.uzel@suse.cz>

        .gitignore: ignore index files generated by ctags and cscope

2010-04-16  Petr Uzel  <petr.uzel@suse.cz>

        libparted: add support for Linux software RAID arrays (mdraid)
        Recognize MD devices, so "parted -s /dev/md0 print" now prints
        "Model: Linux Software RAID Array (md)" instead of
        "Model: Unknown (unknown)".

        * include/parted/device.h (PedDeviceType): Add PED_DEVICE_MD.
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (MD_MAJOR): New define.
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_device_probe_type): Recognize MD array.
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (linux_new): Handle MD array.
        * parted/parted.c(do_print): Add "md" to the list of available
        transports.
        * NEWS (New features): Mention it.

2010-04-13  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: propagate recent improvements to copied-from code
        * tests/t1700-ext-probe.sh: Fix typo s/2>1/2>&1/ and use
        a tighter regexp also in the preceding loop.
        Noted by Colin Watson.

2010-04-13  Colin Watson  <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>

        maint: constify ped_device_get_constraint interface
        * include/parted/device.h (ped_device_get_constraint): Constify "dev"
        parameter.
        * libparted/device.c (ped_device_get_constraint): Likewise.

2010-04-13  Colin Watson  <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>

        libparted: uninit_bg and flex_bg features should indicate ext4
        According to tune2fs(8), the uninit_bg and flex_bg features are only
        supported by ext4, so libparted should treat their presence as
        indicating ext4.  Reported by C de-Avillez in
        https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/parted/+bug/561599.

        * libparted/fs/ext2/ext2_fs.h: Define EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_GDT_CSUM
        and EXT4_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_FLEX_BG.
        * libparted/fs/ext2/interface.c (_ext2_generic_probe): Test for
        EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_GDT_CSUM and EXT4_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_FLEX_BG when
        probing for ext4.
        * tests/t1700-ext-probe.sh: Test for this.
        * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention this.

2010-04-09  Colin Watson  <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>

        libparted: fix diagnostics about exceeding partition limits
        * libparted/labels/pt-tools.c (ptt_partition_max_start_len): Use the
        correct value in the diagnostics that print the upper bound on
        partition size and largest starting sector number.  Before, each
        would use UINT32_MAX.  Now each prints the partition-table-specific
        limit.

2010-04-06  Hans de Goede  <hdegoede@redhat.com>

        libparted: add test for /dev/mapper symlink issue
        Sometimes, libparted operates on device mapper files with a path of
        /dev/mapper/foo.  With newer lvm versions /dev/mapper/foo is a symlink
        to /dev/dm-#. However some storage administration programs (anaconda,
        for example) may do the following:
        1) Create a ped_device for /dev/mapper/foo
        2) ped_get_device resolves the symlink to /dev/dm-#, and the path
           in the PedDevice struct points to /dev/dm-#
        3) The program does some things to lvm, causing the symlink to
           point to a different /dev/dm-# node
        4) The program does something with the PedDevice, which results
           in an operation on the wrong device

        Newer libparted versions do not suffer from this problem, as they
        do not canonicalize device names under /dev/mapper. This test checks
        for this bug.

        * libparted/tests/symlink.c: New test which tests for this issue.
        * libparted/tests/t3000-symlink.sh: New file.
        * libparted/tests/Makefile.am: Include the new files.  Run the new test.

2010-04-06  Hans de Goede  <hdegoede@redhat.com>

        libparted: don't canonicalize /dev/mapper paths
        Besides fixing the issue displayed by libparted/tests/symlink.c,
        this has the added advantage that the output of parted p on one of these
        devices now says:
        "Disk /dev/mapper/BigVol2-lv_iscsi_disk2: 34.4GB"

        Which is a lot more user friendly then the output before this patch:
        "Disk /dev/dm-6: 34.4GB"

        * libparted/device.c (ped_device_get): Don't canonicalize names
        that start with "/dev/mapper/".
        * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
        Thanks to Ales Kozumplik for the analysis.
        Details in <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/577824>.

2010-03-30  Colin Watson  <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>

        doc: add @dircategory to Info documentation
        The Texinfo documentation says that Info files should use @dircategory,
        and suggests consulting the Free Software Directory to select a category
        name.  The directory places Parted under "System administration".

        * doc/parted.texi: Add `@dircategory System administration'.

2010-03-30  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

        tests: disable new texinfo-acronym syntax-check from gnulib
        * cfg.mk (local-checks-to-skip): Add new sc_texinfo_acronym, to skip it.

        maint: avoid using test's -o and -a operators: they are not portable
        * tests/lvm-utils.sh: Don't use test ... -o.
        * configure.ac: Don't use test ... -a.

        maint: remove unneeded #include
        * libparted/disk.c: Don't include "intprops.h".  It was unused.

        build: prepare for gnulib's updated lib-ignore
        * parted/Makefile.am (parted_LDFLAGS): Now that we're using
        gnulib's newer lib-ignore, add $(IGNORE_UNUSED_LIBRARIES_CFLAGS).

2010-03-30  Colin Watson  <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>

        tests: distribute a few more tests and documentation files
        * debug/test/Makefile.am (noinst_SCRIPTS): Add test_fs_hfs and
        test_fs_hfsplus.
        * libparted/fs/hfs/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add DOC and HISTORY.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add t3200-type-change.sh.

2010-03-16  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        build: avoid warning from bootstrap about obsolete strdup module
        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Use the strdup-posix module,
        rather than the "strdup" one.

2010-03-11  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: reenable a "bsd" partition table test
        * libparted/tests/common.c (_implemented_disk_label): Remove "bsd" from
        the list of not-implemented-yet partition table types, since it appears
        to pass the tests.

        libparted: remove "HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL" warning for >512B-sector devices
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_device_set_sector_size): Remove the
        "HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL" warning, now that support for >512-byte sectors
        seems to be usable.  Suggested by Colin Watson.
        * NEWS (Changes in behavior): Note this

2010-03-02  David Cantrell  <dcantrell@redhat.com>

        libparted: msdos_partition_is_flag_available: fix hidden on extended
        Since the hidden flag cannot be set on extended partitions,
        msdos_partition_is_flag_available() should return 0 for hidden on
        extended partitions. Also change msdos_partition_get_flag()
        to always return 0 for hidden on extended partitions.
        * libparted/labels/dos.c (msdos_partition_is_flag_available):
        Return 0 for hidden on extended partitions.
        * libparted/labels/dos.c (msdos_partition_get_flag):
        Always return 0 for hidden on extended partitions.
        * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
        Reported by Flóki Pálsson in http://bugzilla.redhat.com/567118
        Patch forwarded by Hans De Goede.

2010-03-02  Petr Uzel  <petr.uzel@suse.cz>

        tests: skip tests that require mkfs.hfs, when it is unavailable
        t3000-resize-fs.sh would fails if mkfs.hfs is not installed.
        * tests/t-lib.sh (require_hfs_): New function.
        * tests/t3000-resize-fs.sh: Use require_hfs_.

2010-03-01  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: convert more tests to the newer infrastructure
        * tests/t1700-ext-probe.sh: Convert from test-lib.sh to t-lib.sh.
        * tests/t2200-dos-label-recog.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/t2300-dos-label-extended-bootcode.sh: Likewise.

2010-02-26  Colin Watson  <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>

        libparted: don't export linux_get_*_alignment functions
        These functions are only used in libparted/arch/linux.c or via
        linux_dev_ops, so do not export them.

        * libparted/arch/linux.c (linux_get_minimum_alignment): Declare static.
        (linux_get_optimum_alignment): Likewise.

2010-02-26  Petr Uzel  <petr.uzel@suse.cz>

        Add support for ATA over Ethernet (AoE) devices
        Recognize AoE Devices, so "parted -s /dev/etherd/eX.Y" now
        prints "Model: ATA over Ethernet Device (aoe)" instead of
        "Model: Unknown (unknown)".

        * include/parted/device.h(PedDeviceType): Add PED_DEVICE_AOE.
        * libparted/arch/linux.c(AOE_MAJOR): New define.
        * libparted/arch/linux.c(_device_probe_type): Recognize AoE devices.
        * libparted/arch/linux.c(linux_new): Handle AoE devices.
        * parted/parted.c(do_print): Add "aoe" to the list of available
        transports.
        * NEWS (New features): Mention it.

2010-02-26  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        post-release administrivia
        * NEWS: Add header line for next release.
        * .prev-version: Record previous version.
        * cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Auto-update.

        version 2.2
        * NEWS: Record release date.

2010-02-26  Curtis  Gedak  <gedakc@gmail.com>

        dos: set HFS/HFS+ partition identifier to proper value
        The correct value for an "hfs" partition identifier is 0xAF.
        Previously the partition identifier was incorrectly set to 0x83.
        * libparted/labels/dos.c (PARTITION_HFS): Define.
        (msdos_partition_set_system): Use it.

2010-02-26  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: exercise today's HFS partition type fix
        * tests/t2400-dos-hfs-partition-type.sh: New script.
        * tests/Makefile.am: Add it.
        * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.

        tests: gpt-pmbr: don't ignore stdout comparison result
        * tests/t0202-gpt-pmbr.sh: Fail if we get unexpected output.

2010-02-25  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest
        * bootstrap: Copy from gnulib.

        tests: convert t4001 to use the new framework
        * tests/t4001-sun-vtoc.sh: Convert.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it to the list.

2010-02-25  Karel Zak  <kzak@redhat.com>

        sun: initialize basic partition table fields
        libparted completely ignores basic fields (version, nparts and sanity)
        in the sun VTOC, then for example fdisk prints warnings for such
        partition table:

                # fdisk -lu /dev/sdb
                Detected sun disklabel with wrong version [0x00000000].
                Detected sun disklabel with wrong sanity [0x00000000].
                Detected sun disklabel with wrong num_partitions [0].

        It seems that the current libparted sun support follows old Linux
        kernel code, but the code was changed 3 years ago (see kernel commit
        3961bae0ac030a70ae2e0578270203889021f1a1).

        Note that the number of partitions (nparts) is optional for Linux
        kernel, but fdisk(8) strictly requires SUN_DISK_MAXPARTITIONS (=8)
        there. This patch sets nparts to SUN_DISK_MAXPARTITIONS rather then
        use a real number of partitions.

        * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
        * libparted/labels/sun.c: Update from kernel.
        * tests/t4001-sun-vtoc.sh: New file.  Test for this.

2010-02-25  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: wrap the dup-clobber test in a script, ...
        so that its artifacts are created in the usual temporary subdir
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Remove dup-clobber, and instead...
        Add t0500-dup-clobber.sh.
        * tests/t0500-dup-clobber.sh: New script.

2010-02-23  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

        tests: test for the ped_disk_duplicate needs_clobber fix
        * tests/dup-clobber.c: New file.
        Exercise the fix in commit jabb411b, "libparted: copy the
        needs_clobber value in ped_disk_duplicate()".
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS, check_PROGRAMS): Add dup-clobber.

2010-02-22  Hans de Goede  <hdegoede@redhat.com>

        libparted: copy the needs_clobber value in ped_disk_duplicate()
        Most duplicate disk_ops use ped_disk_new_fresh, which sets needs_clobber
        to 1. This would lead to clobbering the disk when committing a duplicate
        disk even when the original disk was not made with ped_disk_new_fresh.
        * libparted/disk.c (ped_disk_duplicate): Copy the needs_clobber member.
        * NEWS (Bug fixes): Describe it.

2010-02-22  Curtis Gedak  <gedakc@gmail.com>

        linux: add wait time and retries to kernel partition reread
        Occasionally when using parted with newer GNU/Linux kernels (2.6.31)
        and udev (145), the kernel would fail to reread the partition table.
        This could lead to problems with subsequent actions such as formatting
        the partition.

        Basically this patch increases the retry_count, and adds one sleep(1)
        function call prior to the the last few ioctl() calls.

        This patch might not be a perfect solution to this problem of "failure
        to inform kernel of partition changes", but it does significantly
        reduce the likelihood of encountering the problem.

        Details on the testing results and procedures used can be found at
        the following link:
        https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=604298#c9

        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_kernel_reread_part_table): Sleep for a
        full second if retry_count makes it down to "3".  Start it at 9
        rather than at 5.
        * NEWS (Bug fixes):

2010-02-20  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        maint: remove now-unused <partition_table_type>_clobber functions
        All of these functions were rendered unused by commit 376b143045,
        "ped_disk_clobber: change semantics" on 2009-11-13.
        Also, Update each <...>_disk_ops "clobber:" member to be NULL.
        * libparted/labels/aix.c (aix_clobber): Remove function.
        * libparted/labels/bsd.c (bsd_clobber): Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/dasd.c (dasd_clobber): Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/dos.c (msdos_clobber): Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/dvh.c (dvh_clobber): Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (gpt_clobber): Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/loop.c (loop_clobber): Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/mac.c (_clobber_part_map, mac_clobber): Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/pc98.c (pc98_clobber): Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/rdb.c (amiga_clobber): Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/sun.c (sun_clobber): Likewise.
        Suggested by Hans De Goede.

2010-02-13  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        doc: update release procedure to account for soname version number
        * README-release: Add a step "0", and update step 3 to match reality.

        libparted: set the shared library version number manually
        * libparted/Makefile.am (CURRENT, REVISION, AGE): Define here.
        (libparted_la_LDFLAGS): Use them, rather than using the
        automatically-defined LT_-prefixed variables.
        Stop using the "-release" option.
        Hans De Goede pointed out that the build process was automatically
        changing the shared library name.

2010-02-12  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        gpt: clean-up wrt write_back (no semantic change)
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (gpt_read): Initialize write_back to 0
        once again, and set it to 1 on the sole path that requires that.

2010-02-10  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        gpt: "read-only" operation could clobber the pMBR in another way
        A read-only operation like "parted $dev print" would overwrite $dev's
        pMBR when exactly one of the primary and backup tables was corrupt.
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (gpt_read): Clear "write_back" in those
        two cases.  Hans De Goede spotted this bug by inspection.
        * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
        * tests/t0206-gpt-print-with-corrupt-primary-clobbers-pmbr.sh: New test.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add
        t0206-gpt-print-with-corrupt-primary-clobbers-pmbr.sh.

        tests: factor utility functions into "library"
        ...since we're about to use them from a second test.
        * tests/t-local.sh (peek_, poke_, gpt1_pte_name_offset_): New functions.
        (gpt_corrupt_primary_table_, gpt_restore_primary_table_): New functions.
        * tests/t0280-gpt-corrupt.sh: Remove local copies of those functions.
        Use the new ones.

2010-02-10  Hans de Goede  <hdegoede@redhat.com>

        dasd: don't dereference a NULL pointer in dasd_read
        * libparted/labels/dasd.c (dasd_read): Avoid NULL pointer dereference.

        parted: change default alignment to "optimal"
        * NEWS (Changes in behavior): Mention it.
        * parted/parted.c: Change --align default value to optimal.
        * tests/t2100-mkswap.sh: Adjust for alignment changes where necessary.
        * tests/t0220-gpt-msftres.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/t0280-gpt-corrupt.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/t2200-dos-label-recog.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/t2300-dos-label-extended-bootcode.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/t3000-resize-fs.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/t4100-msdos-partition-limits.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/t4100-msdos-starting-sector.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/t5000-tags.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/t8000-loop.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/t9021-maxima.sh: Likewise.

2010-02-10  Hans de Goede  <hdegoede@redhat.com>

        parted: change warnings when initial constrained mkpart fails
        In do_mkpart we first try to create a partition using a constraint
        derived from the user input intersected with the devices alignment
        needs. And if that fails we try again without any constraint.

        However the warning given when this happens only takes into account
        the user not getting what he asked for, while the alignment might be
        a problem too (or even the only problem). So this patch adds a check
        to see if the user really did not get what he asked before giving that
        warning, and adds a new check + warning to see if the created partition
        is properly aligned.
        *parted/parted.c (do_mkpart,do_mkpartfs): change warnings when initial
        constrained mkpart fails.

2010-02-10  Hans de Goede  <hdegoede@redhat.com>

        parted: honor --align option also in mkpartfs, resize and print cmds
        * parted/parted.c (do_mkpartfs,do_print,do_resize): Honor --align.

        linux: handle incomplete topology information
        The topology information returned by libblkid is not always complete
        (as the kernel does not always have complete information).
        This patch makes the linux_get_*_alignment() alignment functions handle
        this. The algorithm used for linux_get_optimum_alignment is:
        1) Always use the reported aligment offset as offset
        2a)If optimal io size is present in the topology info use that as grain
        2b)If optimal io size is not present in topology info and aligment
           offset is 0 and minimum io size is a power of 2, use the device.c
           default optimal alignment (grain 1MiB).
        2c) If neither 2a and 2b, use the minimum io size, or if that is not
           defined, use the physical sector size as grain (iow the minimum
           alignment).
        The algorithm used for linux_get_minimum_alignment is:
        1) Always use the reported aligment offset as offset
        2) Use the minimum io size, or if that is not defined the physical
           sector size as grain.
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (linux_get_*_alignment): Handle incomplete
        topology information.

        libparted: Give device_get_*_alignment sane defaults
        When the topology info is incomplete or non existent, return something
        more sensible than NULL (which ends up being interpreted as
        PedAlignmentAny in most cases). The default minimum alignment aligns to
        physical sector size, the default optimal alignment is 1 MiB, which is
        what vista and windows 7 do.
        * libparted/device.c (device_get_*_alignment): Add default aligments.
        * NEWS (New features): Mention it.

        linux: correct phys_sector_size setting
        1) Use the logical sector size as physical sector size instead of 512
           when not compiled with libblkid support, this fixes problems
           with logical sector size > physical sector size.
        2) blkid_topology_get_physical_sector_size() returns 0 when it fails
           to determine the physical sector size, handle this.
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_device_set_sector_size): Correct
        phys_sector_size setting.
        * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.

2010-02-09  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

        doc: NEWS: mention the install-related bug fix
        * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention the fix.

        gpt: read-only operation could clobber MBR part of hybrid GPT+MBR table
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (gpt_read): Fix a bug introduced by me in
        commit 7f753b1b, "gpt: rewrite GPT header-reading code".
        Set write_back=0 in one more code path.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add t0205-gpt-list-clobbers-pmbr.sh.
        * tests/t0205-gpt-list-clobbers-pmbr.sh: New test.
        * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention this.
        Reported by aix27249 in
        http://parted.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/ticket/250

2010-02-08  Peter Breitenlohner  <peb@mppmu.mpg.de>

        do not install the test programs disk and label

2010-02-04  Otavio Salvador  <otavio@ossystems.com.br>

        Fix minor spelling errors
        This fixes minor spelling errors in the source code. Basically:

         s/informations/information/g
         s/prefered/preferred/g

2010-02-04  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: avoid another spurious test failure with newer xfsprogs
        * tests/t4100-msdos-partition-limits.sh: Likewise.

        tests: avoid spurious test failure with newer xfsprogs
        * tests/t4100-dvh-partition-limits.sh: Use mkfs.xfs' -f (force)
        option.  It is required at least for xfsprogs-3.1.0.

2010-01-31  Hans de Goede  <hdegoede@redhat.com>

        build: fix check-other-sector_sizes
        "make check-other-sector_sizes" was running tests of 512-byte sectors
        four times, rather than simulating larger sector-sizes for the latter
        three iterations.
        * Makefile.am (ss-1024 ss-2048 ss-4096): Fix the typo (missing "subst").

2010-01-31  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: adjust t9021-maxima not to fail with 2048-byte sectors
        * tests/t9021-maxima.sh: At 10,000*512 bytes, the backing file
        was too small to support a test simulating a sector size of 2048 bytes.
        Use 10,000*$sector_size bytes instead.

        build: avoid -Wshadow warnings
        * parted/parted.c (do_print): Avoid two shadowing warnings.

2010-01-29  Hans de Goede  <hdegoede@redhat.com>

        linux: remove PED_DEVICE_FILE check from _device_set_sector_size
        _device_set_sector_size is never called for devices with a type of
        PED_DEVICE_FILE.
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_device_set_sector_size): Remove
        PED_DEVICE_FILE check.

        linux: remove unused blkpg.h header file
        * libparted/arch/linux.c: Don't include blkpg.h.
        * libparted/arch/blkpg.h: Deleted.
        * libparted/Makefile.am (libparted_la_SOURCES): Remove arch/blkpg.h.

        linux: use blkid_topology_get_physical_sector_size
        The official 2.17 release of util-linux-ng, has added a function to
        get the physical sector size.  Use that instead of getting the
        minimum io size.
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_device_set_sector_size): Use
        blkid_topology_get_physical_sector_size.

2010-01-18  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        maint: remove unreachable code
        * parted/parted.c (do_print): Remove unreachable ped_disk_destroy call.

2010-01-15  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

        dos: don't leak a constraint upon partition-add failure
        * libparted/labels/dos.c (read_table): Free constraint upon failure.

        gpt: don't leak a constraint upon partition-add failure
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (gpt_read): Free constraint upon failure.

        gpt: do not leak a GPT header on an error path
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (gpt_write): Avoid a leak by freeing the
        header buffer after pth_get_raw call where it's used, but before
        checking whether that pth_get_raw call succeeded.
        Avoid another leak in identical just 10 lines down.
        Add "FIXME: caution..." comments to warn about the duplication.

        libparted: remove unreachable code
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (gpt_write): Remove dead code.
        * libparted/labels/bsd.c (bsd_partition_new): Likewise.
        * libparted/disk.c (_ped_disk_alloc): Likewise.

        libparted: avoid double-free on an OOM failure path
        * libparted/disk.c (ped_disk_check): Don't double-free "fs_size".

2010-01-08  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

        maint: update old_NEWS_hash
        * cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Update for GFDL license update.

        maint: update all GFDL licenses to version 1.3
        * NEWS: Use 1.3, not 1.2.
        * doc/API: Use 1.3, not 1.1.
        * doc/FAT: Likewise.
        * doc/USER.jp: Likewise.
        * doc/fdl.texi: Likewise.
        * doc/parted-pt_BR.texi: Likewise.
        * doc/parted.texi: Likewise.

        maint: update all FSF copyright year lists to include 2010
        Run this command: make update-copyright

        maint: record update-copyright options for this package
        * cfg.mk: Next time, just run "make update-copyright".

2009-12-31  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        maint: newer gnulib; don't hard-code my GPG key ID
        * cfg.mk (gpg_key_ID): Remove definition, now that maint.mk automates it.
        * gnulib: Update to latest.

2009-12-20  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        maint: make build-aux/gnu-web-doc-update work
        * cfg.mk (manual_title): Define.
        * doc/parted.texi (Concept index): Rename from "Index".
        Remove @ifnotplaintext..@end around its menu entry.

        post-release administrivia
        * NEWS: Add header line for next release.
        * .prev-version: Record previous version.
        * cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Auto-update.

        version 2.1
        * NEWS: Record release date.

        doc: NEWS: mention the flag-truncation fix
        * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.

2009-12-19  Hans de Goede  <hdegoede@redhat.com>

        dos: honor cylinder alignment disk flag when allocating metadata
        * libparted/labels/dos.c (add_startend_metadata): Honor cylinder
        alignment flag.

2009-12-18  Hans de Goede  <hdegoede@redhat.com>

        libparted: push/pop update mode around ped_disk_set_flag
        Disk flags can change how the metadata gets allocated, so push/pop
        update mode around ops->disk_set_flag, so that the metadata gets
        re-allocated.
        * libparted/disk.c (ped_disk_set_flag): push/pop update mode.

        linux: fix use-after-free in devicemapper code
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_dm_add_partition): Fix use of dm_task
        information after freeing it.

2009-12-18  Hans de Goede  <hdegoede@redhat.com>

        ui: Do not truncate flag names when printing
        The partition_print_flags() function was truncating the flag names,
        but these are translated strings, and thus can contain multibyte
        characters. Truncating multibyte chars in a non multibyte aware way
        is not good and was causing issues when printing tables in Russian:
        http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=543029

        Since the truncating does not seem to make sense at all this patch
        simply removes it (it was likely an attempt to stay within 80 chars
        when printing, but as one partition can have multiple flags set this
        won't work)

        * parted/parted.c (partition_print_flags): Don't truncate flag names.

2009-12-16  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        libparted: plug a leak in mac_write
        * libparted/labels/mac.c (mac_write): Free mac_driverdata.

        maint: use "int", not "bool" for value returned by ped_device_write
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (gpt_write): Correct type of local.
        * libparted/labels/mac.c (mac_clobber): Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/sun.c (sun_write): Likewise.

        libparted: plug a leak in mac's write_block_zero
        * libparted/labels/mac.c (write_block_zero): Don't leak a
        1-sector-sized buffer.

        dos: remove unreachable code
        * libparted/labels/dos.c (msdos_partition_new): Remove dead code.

        libparted: plug a leak in gpt_probe
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (gpt_probe): Avoid a leak when dev->length
        is one sector or smaller.

2009-12-14  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        maint: improve dist-check.mk rules
        * dist-check.mk (null_AM_MAKEFLAGS): Remove LIBTOOL.  Adding it was
        erroneous, since it is required when building from a distribution
        tarball of a libtool-using project.  Reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
        (my-distcheck): Reorganize to use a subshell and set -e, so that
        failures propagate "out".  Without this change, setting LIBTOOL=false
        would cause a failure that would then be ignored, probably due to a
        problem in $(install-transform-check).

        maint: dist-check.mk adapt to parted-specific details
        * dist-check.mk (built_programs): Use parted/, not src/.
        (install-transform-check): Search sbin/, not /bin.
        Expect man pages to be in man8/*.8.

2009-12-13  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        maint: sync dist-check.mk from coreutils
        * dist-check.mk: Sync from coreutils.
        * gnulib: Update to latest.

        maint: sync dist-check.mk from coreutils
        * dist-check.mk: Sync from coreutils.
        * gnulib: Update to latest.

2009-12-12  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        build: distribute gperf-generated file, pt-limit.c
        * libparted/labels/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Distribute the
        gperf-generated file, pt-limit.c, so that people don't need to
        run gperf at build-from-tarball time.

        ui: mkpart: avoid double free
        * parted/parted.c (do_mkpart): This function frees "part_name"
        immediately after the final use, but also upon e.g., ped_disk_commit
        failure.  Set part_name to NULL after the first free, to make
        the second a no-op after the first.

        build: update spec: gperf is a new build-requirement
        * parted.spec.in (BuildRequires): Add gperf.
        Reported by Jeff Darcy.

2009-12-11  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

        tests: ensure that parted can partition a loop device
        * tests/t8000-loop.sh: Reverse sense of tests, now that
        partitioning a loop device succeeds again.
        * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.

2009-12-11  Hans de Goede  <hdegoede@redhat.com>

        linux: treat loopback devices as files
        We cannot do partition related ioctl's on loopback devices,
        so treat them as files.
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (LOOP_MAJOR): Define.
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_device_probe_type): Treat loopback
        devices as files.
        Reported by Josef Bacik in http://bugzilla.redhat.com/546622

2009-12-10  Hans de Goede  <hdegoede@redhat.com>

        libparted: missing pop update mode in ped_disk_delete_all error path
        * libparted/disk.c(ped_disk_delete_all): Add missing update mode pop
        call in error path.

        libparted: make pop/push update mode propagate sanity check errors
        Sanity check errors indicate something is really really wrong, still
        sometimes they happen, when they happen it helps a lot in debugging
        them when the libparted caller immediately errors out at the first
        moment, rather then slugging along until things crash somewere.
        * libparted/disk.c(_disk_push_update_mode,_disk_pop_update_mode):
        Change return value from void to int, and return 0 when the sanity
        check calls fail.
        * libparted/disk.c(*): Update all _disk_push_update_mode /
        _disk_pop_update_mode callers to propagate the return value.

2009-12-10  Joel Granados Moreno  <jgranado@redhat.com>

        libparted: add missing update mode pop in duplicate error path
        * libparted/disk.c(ped_disk_duplicate): Add missing update mode
        pop call in error path.

        gpt: Add support for appletv partitions
        * include/parted/disk.h(PedPartitionFlag): Add
        PED_PARTITION_APPLE_TV_RECOVERY.
        * libparted/disk.c(ped_partition_flag_get_name): Handle
        PED_PARTITION_APPLE_TV_RECOVERY.
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c(PARTITION_APPLE_TV_RECOVERY_GUID):
        New define.
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c(GPTPartitionData): Add atvrecv member.
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c(_parse_part_entry, gpt_partition_new,
        gpt_partition_set_system, gpt_partition_set_flag,
        gpt_partition_get_flag, gpt_partition_is_flag_available):
        Handle atvrecv / PARTITION_APPLE_TV_RECOVERY_GUID.

        build: don't install s390 dasd internal headers into /usr/include
        * include/parted/Makefile.am (partedinclude_HEADERS):
        Remove $(S390_HDRS).
        (noinst_HEADERS): Put them here instead.

2009-12-10  Hans de Goede  <hdegoede@redhat.com>

        ui: add --align command-line option to specify mkpart alignment
        The new --align command-line option can have the following values:
        none:     Use the minimum alignment allowed by the disk type
        cylinder: Align partitions to cylinders (the default)
        minimal: Use minimum alignment as given by the disk topology information
        optimal: Use optimum alignment as given by the disk topology information

        Note the "minimal" and "optimal" values will use layout information
        provided by the disk to align the logical partition table addresses
        to actual physical blocks on the disks.  The "minimal" value is the
        minimum aligment needed to align the partition properly to physical
        blocks, which avoids performance degradation.  Whereas the "optimum"
        alignment align's to a multiple of the physical block size in a way
        that guarantees optimal performance.

        The "minimal" and "optimal" values are useful only when parted is
        compiled with libblkid >= 2.17 and running on a kernel >= 2.6.31,
        otherwise they are equivalent to --align=none.

        * parted/parted.c (ALIGNMENT_ enum values): New enum.
        (options, options_help): Add --align option.
        (align_args, align_types, alignment): New global variables.
        (do_mkpart): Honor aligment variable.
        (_parse_options): handle --align option.
        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add argmatch.
        * NEWS: Mention the new --align option.
        * doc/parted.texi: Document --align option.
        * doc/C/parted.8: Likewise.

2009-12-10  Hans de Goede  <hdegoede@redhat.com>

        NEWS: update with libblkid and kernel requirements for alignment funcs
        * NEWS: Change the note for the align-check command to also reference
        libblkid, add a note to the libparted alignment functions NEWS entry
        about libblkid and kernel requirements.

        NEWS: Add new disk flag functions to NEWS
        * NEWS: Add new disk flag functions.

        msdos, sun: implement disk flag operations
        * libparted/labels/dos.c (DosDiskData): New struct.
        * libparted/labels/dos.c (msdos_alloc, msdos_duplicate, msdos_free):
        Handle per disk DosDiskData.
        * libparted/labels/dos.c (msdos_disk_set_flag, msdos_disk_get_flag,
        msdos_disk_is_flag_available): New functions.
        * libparted/labels/sun.c (sun_disk_set_flag, sun_disk_get_flag,
        sun_disk_is_flag_available): New functions.

2009-12-10  Hans de Goede  <hdegoede@redhat.com>

        libparted: add disk flag functions and PED_DISK_CYLINDER_ALIGNMENT flag
        Sometimes we want to be able to set flags at the disk level rather then
        at the parition level, to influence how new partitions will be created
        for example.  This patch adds functions to do this (modelled after the
        partition flag functions), and adds a PED_DISK_CYLINDER_ALIGNMENT flag.

        This flag (which defaults to true) controls if disk types for which
        cylinder alignment is optional do cylinder alignment when a new
        partition gets added. This flag is available for msdos and sun
        disklabels (for sun labels it only controls the aligning of the end of
        the partition).
        * include/parted/disk.h (PedDiskFlag): New type
        * include/parted/disk.h (ped_disk_set_flag, ped_disk_get_flag,
        ped_disk_is_flag_available): new functions and PedDiskOps members
        * include/parted/disk.h (ped_disk_flag_get_name,
        ped_disk_flag_get_by_name, ped_disk_flag_next): new functions
        * libparted/disk.c (ped_disk_set_flag, ped_disk_get_flag,
        ped_disk_is_flag_available, ped_disk_flag_get_name,
        ped_disk_flag_get_by_name, ped_disk_flag_next): new functions

2009-12-10  Hans de Goede  <hdegoede@redhat.com>

        dasd: fix leak in dasd_free
        * libparted/labels/dasd.c (dasd_free): Free disk_specific data.

2009-12-09  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

        build: make it clear which sector size is in use upon test failure
        * Makefile.am (ss-1024 ss-2048 ss-4096): New targets.
        Before this, top-level "make check" would lead to four separate
        runs through all the regression tests, one for each of the following
        simulated sector sizes: 1024 2048 4096, and one more for the native
        (usually 512), and it was not easy to tell which sector size was
        in use for a failing test.  Now, we still perform exactly the same
        tests, but the sector size is now part of each target name.

2009-12-08  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: exercise the new interfaces
        * tests/print-max.c: New file.
        * tests/t9021-maxima.sh: New file.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add t9021-maxima.sh.
        (check_PROGRAMS): Add print-max.

        libparted: new interfaces: max start sector, max partition length
        * libparted/disk.c (ped_disk_max_partition_start_sector): New function.
        (ped_disk_max_partition_length): New function.
        * include/parted/disk.h: Declare them.
        * NEWS (New features): Mention them.

        libparted: factor out duplication, hook up new APIs
        * include/parted/disk.h [struct _PedDiskOps]:
        (max_length, max_start_sector): New members.
        * libparted/labels/pt-common.h: New file.
        * libparted/labels/Makefile.am (liblabels_la_SOURCES): Add it.
        * libparted/labels/dos.c: Include "pt-common.h".
        (msdos_partition_check): Remove function.
        (msdos_disk_ops): Remove factored out initializers.
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c: Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/dvh.c: Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/aix.c:
        (aix_disk_ops, aix_partition_check): Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/bsd.c:
        (bsd_disk_ops, bsd_partition_check): Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/dasd.c:
        (dasd_disk_ops, dasd_partition_check): Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/loop.c:
        (loop_disk_ops, loop_partition_check): Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/mac.c:
        (mac_disk_ops, mac_partition_check): Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/pc98.c:
        (pc98_disk_ops, pc98_partition_check): Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/rdb.c:
        (amiga_disk_ops, amiga_partition_check): Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/sun.c:
        (sun_disk_ops, sun_partition_check): Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (NULL_IF_DISCOVER_ONLY): Remove definition,
        now that it's in pt-common.h.

        libparted: use gperf-generated lookup function
        * libparted/labels/pt-tools.c (ptt_partition_max_start_len):
        Rewrite to use the gperf-generated look-up function.
        (ptt_partition_max_start_sector): New function.
        (ptt_partition_max_length): New function.
        * libparted/labels/pt-tools.h: Declare them.
        * libparted/labels/Makefile.am (GPERF, GPERF_OPTIONS): Define.
        (BUILT_SOURCES): Define.
        (liblabels_la_SOURCES): Append pt-limit.gperf.
        (pt-limit.c): New rule.
        (MAINTAINERCLEANFILES): Remove useless definition.
        (DISTCLEANFILES): Set to $(BUILT_SOURCES).
        * libparted/labels/pt-limit.gperf: New file.
        * cfg.mk (bootstrap-tools): Mention gperf.
        * bootstrap.conf (buildreq): Require gperf-3.0.3.

        pc98: avoid segfault with simulated large sectors
        The pc98 partition table is by no means ready for >512-byte sectors,
        but at least it now gets past mklabel.  E.g., this usage no longer
        provokes double-free and read-uninitialized errors:
        dd if=/dev/zero of=F bs=512 count=1 seek=10000
        PARTED_SECTOR_SIZE=4096 valgrind ../parted/parted -s F mklabel pc98
        * libparted/labels/pc98.c (pc98_write): Rewrite to avoid
        invalid access with >512-byte sectors.

        libparted: ptt_read_sectors: new function
        * libparted/labels/pt-tools.c (ptt_read_sectors): New function.
        (ptt_read_sector): Rewrite to use it.
        * libparted/labels/pt-tools.h: Declare it.

2009-12-03  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        mac: hook up the partition_check function for this partition table type
        * libparted/labels/pt-tools.c (ptt_partition_max_start_len): Define
        for MAC partition tables.  They too have 32-bit-limited partition
        starting sector number and partition length (in sectors).
        * libparted/labels/mac.c (mac_partition_check): Use
        ptt_partition_max_start_len.

2009-11-30  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: exercise new align-check command
        * tests/t9030-align-check.sh: New file.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.

2009-11-30  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        ui: new command: align-check TYPE N
        e.g.,
          parted -s /dev/sda align-check min 1 && echo partition 1 is min-aligned
          parted -s /dev/sda align-check opt 2 && echo partition 2 is opt-aligned

        * parted/parted.c:
        * parted/ui.c:
        * parted/ui.h:
        * NEWS (New features): Mention it.
        * doc/parted.texi (align-check): Describe it.

2009-11-30  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: correct a comment
        * tests/t9020-alignment.sh: Correct a comment.

2009-11-27  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        libparted: ped_disk_clobber_exclude: remove now-unused function
        I see no utility in ped_disk_clobber_exclude (just a thin wrapper
        around ped_disk_clobber), so am removing the interface.
        * include/parted/disk.h (ped_disk_clobber_exclude): Remove prototype.
        * libparted/disk.c (ped_disk_clobber_exclude): Remove function.
        Now that all callers use NULL as 2nd argument, replace each call
        with one to ped_disk_clobber.
        * scripts/data/abi/baseline_symbols.txt: Remove it.

        Reviewed-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>

2009-11-27  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        ped_disk_clobber: change semantics
        Why?  Because if we're going to clobber a partition table,
        it is wasteful and error prone to try to interpret as a partition
        table whatever existing data there may be.  It may be corrupt, or
        a mix of two or more types.  It is far cleaner just to zero out
        the key sectors.

        The previous mechanism was like this:
        for each partition table type, T,
            # See if the device has a partition of type T.
            # If so, run the partition-table-specific code to clear it.
            if t->ops->probe (dev)
              t->ops->clobber (dev)
        Instead, simply zero out the first few and last few sectors.
        Except for GPT, for which we exempt the first sector (the pMBR).
        In order to zero out even the bits DASD uses for its identifying
        strings, we have to clobber at least the 8.5KiB at the beginning
        of the disk, so round up to 9KiB.
        * libparted/disk.c: Include "labels/pt-tools.h".
        (find_disk_type): New helper function.
        (ped_disk_clobber_exclude):

        Reviewed-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>

2009-11-27  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        dasd: allow the use of a *regular* backing file
        Before this change, dasd partition tables had to be associated with
        very specialized block devices available only on IBM s390 systems.
        This made testing especially hard.  Not only did you need access
        to one of those relatively uncommon systems, but you also needed
        access to a spare block device.  In addition, many of Parted's
        tests may be run as a non-privileged user, using regular files,
        and those tests would fail when run on an s390.

        This change makes it so you may now write a DASD partition table
        to a regular backing file, just as you may with any other supported
        partition table type.  However, note that even now, DASD support
        is conditionally compiled and hence enabled only when compiling
        for an s390 target.

        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_device_set_sector_size) [__s390__]:
        Allow operation on a device of type PED_DEVICE_FILE, as well as
        those of type PED_DEVICE_DASD.
        * libparted/labels/fdasd.c: Include <parted/device.h>.
        (fdasd_get_geometry): Add a new "dev" parameter, required for
        dev-phys-sector_size, which is needed in order to initialize
        the "anc" structure without using the device-specific ioctls.
        When file descriptor "f" refers to a regular file, initialize
        "anc", "dasd_info", etc. from other sources (fstat and dev->).
        Update all callers to reflect added parameter.
        (fdasd_check_api_version): Skip ioctl-calling tests when "f" is
        a regular file.
        * include/parted/fdasd.h: Update fdasd_get_geometry prototype.
        * libparted/labels/dasd.c (dasd_probe): Also allow PED_DEVICE_FILE.
        (dasd_alloc_metadata): Initialize arch_specific->real_sector_size,
        which is used in calculating vtoc_end.

        Reviewed-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>

2009-11-27  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        loop: simplify/correct loop_clobber
        Before, it would clear a sector only if it recognized its own
        signature.  In addition, it would continue clearing subsequent
        sectors as long as loop_probe succeeded.  Now we simply clear
        the first sector.
        * libparted/labels/loop.c (loop_clobber): Simplify.

        Reviewed-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>

2009-11-26  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: indicate that we expect t3200-type-change to fail, for now
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Move t3200-type-change.sh to ...
        (XFAIL_TESTS): ...here.

2009-11-24  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: correct t3200-type-change.sh
        * tests/t3200-type-change.sh: The initial version was incomplete.

        tests: provide a new function: fail_
        * tests/t-lib.sh (fail_): New function.

        tests: t0001-tiny.sh: avoid spurious failure when run as root.
        * tests/t0001-tiny.sh: Control characters were getting in the way.
        Filter them out.

2009-11-23  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        dasd: avoid NULL-dereference via disk->type->ops->partition_check
        Commit f387fee8 added the new ops->partition_check() function,
        and a <type>_partition_check function for each partition table
        format _except_ dasd.  This change adds one for dasd, too.
        * libparted/labels/dasd.c: Include "pt-tools.h".
        (dasd_partition_check): New function.
        * libparted/labels/pt-tools.c (ptt_partition_max_start_len): Add "dasd"
        to the list of partition table type names for which the 32-bit
        limits on starting sector and partition length apply.
        Correct a comment.
        Considering the 32-bit fields in "struct fdasd_hd_geometry",
        it is safe to assume that larger offset or size is not possible.

2009-11-18  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        build: "make stable" emitted an invalid gnupload command
        * cfg.mk (gnu_ftp_host-stable): Rename from gnu_ftp_host-major.

2009-11-17  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        test for partition-type-changing bug
        * tests/t3200-type-change.sh: New file.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.

2009-11-13  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        gpt: greatly simply gpt_clobber; minor semantic change, too
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (gpt_clobber): Don't bother to read and
        parse existing headers.  Instead, simply clear three sectors:
        the pMBR, the primary header (LBA1), and the last sector.
        There is no point in clearing what the primary header says is the
        AlternateLBA, since once the primary header and the last sector
        are cleared, there is no risk of any tool using it by mistake.

        tests: t0000-basic.sh: minor correction
        * tests/t0000-basic.sh: When zeroing out the first sector,
        use dd's conv=notrunc.  Otherwise, we'd also truncate the
        backing file size to 4KiB.

        linux_read: give a proper diagnostic for an "end of file" error
        Before today's gpt_probe bug fix, its test case would provoke
        an invalid diagnostic.  This makes the diagnostic useful.
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (linux_read): When hitting EOF while reading,
        diagnose it properly, rather than via strerror(0) (i.e., "Success").

        gpt_probe: don't attempt to read beyond end of a very small disk
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (gpt_probe): Don't try to read the
        2nd sector if that's beyond the end of the disk.
        * tests/t0001-tiny.sh: New test, to expose the above boundary-case bug.
        Part of the msdos-partition-creation process involves probing for
        other types of partition tables.  Probing for gpt would evoke a
        nonsensical diagnostic.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add t0001-tiny.sh.

        dvh: replace open-coded dvh_clobber with equivalent, shorter code
        * libparted/labels/dvh.c (dvh_clobber): Simply use ptt_clear_sectors.

        tests: weaken t0202-gpt-pmbr to assume a preexisting GPT table
        * tests/t0202-gpt-pmbr.sh: Lay down an initial GPT table before
        writing to the MBR, so this test passes with the new semantics.

        tests: rewrite t0202 to use new framework
        * tests/t0202-gpt-pmbr.sh: Rewrite.

        ped_disk_type_get_next: fix a const-correctness bug
        * libparted/disk.c (ped_disk_type_get_next): Make param const.
        * include/parted/disk.h (ped_disk_type_get_next): Update prototype.

2009-11-12  Hans de Goede  <hdegoede@redhat.com>

        NEWS: mention recent changes

2009-11-12  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        maint: more const-correctness fixes

2009-11-12  Hans de Goede  <hdegoede@redhat.com>

        dasd: fix ped_disk_new_fresh to not read old data from disk
        dasd_write(), was reading the volume label from the disk (trough
        fdasd_check_volume()) and later writing it back again, this is fine for
        existing dasd labels, but when creating a fresh label, this would
        also cause the old volume label to be re-used, and if the old label
        was corrupt, it would cause fdasd_check_volume() and thus dasd_write()
        to fail.  Reported here: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/533808

        * libparted/arch/linux.c: include fdasd.h.
        (init_dasd): Do BIODASDINFO ioctl, and store the dasd devno in
        arch_specific.
        (init_dasd): Remove dead (never reached) code.
        * libparted/arch/linux.h (struct _LinuxSpecific): Add devno member.
        * libparted/labels/dasd.c (DasdDiskSpecific): add vlabel member.
        (dasd_alloc): Init DasdDiskSpecific.vlabel for fresh disks
        (dasd_read): Store read vlabel in DasdDiskSpecific.vlabel.
        (dasd_write): Write DasdDiskSpecific.vlabel instead of on disk vlabel.

2009-11-10  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        build: avoid s390-specific compilation failiure
        * libparted/labels/vtoc.c (vtoc_volume_label_init): Don't use
        strncpy to copy 84 bytes into a 4-byte field.  Instead, use
        memcpy to copy "sizeof *vlabel" bytes into the "vlabel".

        maint: fix s390-specific const correctness problems
        * libparted/labels/vtoc.c (vtoc_error, vtoc_ebcdic_enc):
        (vtoc_ebcdic_dec): Declare parameters to be const, as required.
        * libparted/labels/fdasd.c (fdasd_error): Likewise.
        * include/parted/vtoc.h (vtoc_ebcdic_enc, vtoc_ebcdic_enc): Update
        prototypes.

        gpt: fix a bug in the new PE-array CRC checks on big-endian systems
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (check_PE_array_CRC, gpt_read): Always
        convert the PartitionEntryArrayCRC32 to CPU endianness before
        comparing with a just-computed CRC.

2009-11-08  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        build: use gnulib's canonicalize-lgpl module
        Replace Parted's private version of canonicalize_file_name.
        * libparted/device.c: Include <stdlib.h>.
        (canonicalize_file_name) [!HAVE_CANONICALIZE_FILE_NAME]:
        Remove definition.
        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add canonicalize-lgpl.

2009-11-07  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        libparted: linux: don't deref NULL upon failed malloc or realloc
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_read_fd): Handle allocation failure.

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

        maint: use EXIT_SUCCESS and EXIT_FAILURE, not 0 and 1 to exit
        Convert all uses automatically, via these two commands:
        git grep -l '\<exit *(1)'|xargs --no-run-if-empty \
          perl -pi -e 's/\b(exit ?)\(1\)/$1(EXIT_FAILURE)/'
        git grep -l '\<exit *(0)'|xargs --no-run-if-empty \
          perl -pi -e 's/\b(exit ?)\(0\)/$1(EXIT_SUCCESS)/'
        * libparted/fs/fat/table.c (fat_table_get): Use symbolic exit codes.
        * libparted/labels/vtoc.c (vtoc_update_format5_label_add): Likewise.
        (vtoc_update_format5_label_del): Likewise.
        (vtoc_update_format7_label_add): Likewise.
        (vtoc_update_format7_label_del): Likewise.
        * m4/parted.m4 (PARTED_CHECK_LIBPARTED): Likewise.
        * parted/parted.c (do_quit): Likewise.
        * parted/strlist.c (gettext_to_wchar, wchar_to_str): Likewise.
        * parted/ui.c (reset_env, help_msg, non_interactive_mode): Likewise.

2009-11-06  Hans de Goede  <hdegoede@redhat.com>

        dasd: fix unused variable warning
        * libparted/labels/dasd.c (dasd_get_partition_alignment): Fix unused
        variable warning.

        linux: use cached major minor instead of statting the device again
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_dm_remove_parts): Use cached major/minor
        numbers.

2009-11-06  Hans de Goede  <hdegoede@redhat.com>

        linux: use devicemapper task name instead of device node name
        Use devicemapper task name instead of device node name as basename for
        devicemapper disk partitions.

        This is needed for upcoming lvm changes where the /dev/mapper/foobar
        files are becoming symlinks, so we will end up opening /dev/dm-#,
        and naming our partitions dm-#p1, dm-#p2, instead of foobarp1,
        foobarp2, etc.

2009-11-06  Hans de Goede  <hdegoede@redhat.com>

        linux: use major / minor to specify device mapper device in dm_task
        Use major / minor to specify device mapper device instead of
        dm_task_set_name. This is needed for upcoming lvm changes where the
        /dev/mapper/foobar files are becoming symlinks, so we will end up
        opening /dev/dm-#, and dm-# is not a valid dm_task name.

        This is only needed in this one place, as in the other places where we
        use dm_task_set_name, the name we use was returned by libdevicemapper
        itself in an earlier function call.

2009-11-06  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: enable the FS-resizing (tests only HFS and FAT)
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add t3000-resize-fs.sh.

        maint: remove stray "types and" in the big FS-op warning
        * parted/parted.c (issue_fs_op_warning): Correct grammar in diagnostic.

        tests: convert more tests to new framework
        * tests/t0400-loop-clobber-infloop.sh: Convert.
        * tests/t0010-script-no-ctrl-chars.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/t3000-resize-fs.sh: Likewise, and convert it to use scsi_debug.
        * tests/t-local.sh (require_512_byte_sector_size_): Copy this
        function from test-lib.sh.

2009-11-04  Hans de Goede  <hdegoede@redhat.com>

        dasd: fix disk duplication
        Fix dasd_duplicate and add a dasd_partition_duplicate function.
        * libparted/labels/dasd.c(dasd_partition_duplicate): New function.
        (dasd_duplicate): Don't set the disk_specific pointer to NULL!
        (dasd_duplicate): Copy DasdDiskSpecific from old disk to new disk.

        dasd: set disk_specific->format_type in dasd_alloc
        Set disk_specific->format_type in dasd_alloc, so that the disk
        returned by ped_disk_new_fresh is a valid dasd disk.
        * libparted/labels/dasd.c (dasd_alloc): Set disk_specific->format_type.

2009-11-04  Hans de Goede  <hdegoede@redhat.com>

        dasd: cache real_sector_size in linux_probe
        dasd_alloc was doing an ioctl to get the real sector size for the dasd
        device (we are faking 512 bytes sectors), but when called directly
        from ped_disk_new_fresh(), the device is not open causing this to fail.

        This patch fixes things by caching the real_sector_size in the linux
        arch_specific data and making the dasd label handling use this.
        libparted/arch/linux.c(_device_set_sector_size): Cache real sector size.
        (_device_set_sector_size, init_dasd, linux_new): Only compile dasd code
        on s390 and s390x.

2009-11-04  Hans de Goede  <hdegoede@redhat.com>

        dasd: remove bogus part_info pointer from DasdPartitionData
        The part_info pointer in DasdPartitionData was only used to
        pass fdasd partition_info_t pointers from dasd_write to
        the dasd_write dasd_update_type utility function. Since these
        pointers are not valid outside the lifetime of dasd_write, they
        should not be stored in the longer lived DasdPartitionData.

        * libparted/labels/dasd.c(DasdPartitionData): Remove part_info member.
        (dasd_read): Stop setting DasdPartitionData part_info.
        (dasd_update_type): Add part_info argument to pass fdasd
        partition_info_t pointers from dasd_write.
        (dasd_write): Stop setting DasdPartitionData part_info, pass
        partition_info_t pointers to dasd_update_type as a separate argument.

2009-11-04  Hans de Goede  <hdegoede@redhat.com>

        dasd: clean up anchor handling
        The current dasd label code keeps an fdasd anchor struct in the
        DasdDiskSpecific struct, and fills this during dasd_read. However this
        anchor does not get updated with any future mods, until dasd_write,
        at which points it gets completely re-initialized.

        Since the contents of the anchor saved during read does not get used
        anywhere else, this patch switches to using local anchor structs in
        dasd_read and dasd_write. This will also allow writing a significantly
        simpler duplicate implementation, then the one which is currently
        added to the Fedora package with a patch from Joel Granados (The
        current master dasd_duplicate implementation is not functional).

        This patch also fixes several missing calls to fdasd_cleanup() fixing
        several memory leaks.

        * libparted/arch/linux.h (struct _LinuxSpecific): Drop anchor member.
        * libparted/labels/dasd.c (DasdDiskSpecific): Drop anchor member.
        (dasd_clobber): Add missing fdasd_cleanup().
        (dasd_read, dasd_write): Use local anchor struct instead of a
        dynamically allocated one in DasdDiskSpecific.
        (dasd_read): Don't leak a PedConstraint in 2 error paths.
        (dasd_update_type): Pass in the used anchor as argument.

2009-11-03  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: distribute new files, t-local.sh and t-lvm.sh
        * tests/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add t-local.sh and t-lvm.sh.

        tests: appease "make syntax-check"
        * tests/print-align.c: Include "progname.h".  Call set_program_name.

        tests: t6000-dm.sh: update and adapt to changed LVM2
        * tests/t6000-dm.sh: Rewrite to use new test framework and
        to disable multipath testing, since LVM2 has changed in such
        a way that it no longer works with loop devices.

        tests: do not invoke scsi_debug_setup_ in a subshell
        * tests/t9010-big-sector.sh: Do not invoke scsi_debug_setup_ in
        a subshell, since it sets a variable that cleanup machinery expects
        to see.
        * tests/t9020-alignment.sh: Likewise.

        tests: tweak temporary dirname prefix
        * tests/t-lib.sh (t_): Use "pe-" as prefix, not "gz-".

        tests: update lvm-utils.sh from lvm2
        * tests/lvm-utils.sh: Merge in changes from lvm2.

        tests: adapt/update lvm-related infrasture, too
        * tests/t-local.sh: Source t-lvm.sh.
        * tests/t-lvm.sh: Clone and update of lvm-utils.sh,
        for when we retire that file in favor of this one.

        tests: adapt t8000-loop.sh
        * tests/t8000-loop.sh: Rewrite in new style, and adjust to
        expect new diagnostic.

        tests: print and check partition alignment info, too
        * tests/print-align.c: Print partition alignment info, too
        * tests/t9020-alignment.sh: Check partition alignment too.

        tests: serialize tests that use the scsi_debug module
        * tests/t-local.sh (scsi_debug_lock_file_): New global.
        (scsi_debug_acquire_lock_): New function.
        (scsi_debug_setup_): Call it, to acquire the lock.
        (scsi_debug_cleanup_): Release the lock.

        tests: test the new alignment functions
        * tests/t9020-alignment.sh: New test.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it to the list.

        tests: factor out some more
        * tests/t-local.sh (require_scsi_debug_module_): New function.
        * tests/t9010-big-sector.sh: Use it.

        tests: perform scsi_debug cleanup automatically...
        ...rather than requiring each test to do it.
        * tests/t-lib.sh ($cleanup_eval): New variable.  Initialize.
        (remove_tmp_): Use it.
        * tests/t-local.sh: Record whether modprobe succeeded.
        (cleanup_eval_): Append an invocation of scsi_debug_cleanup_
        so that it is always run.
        (scsi_debug_cleanup_): Run rmmod only if the modprobe succeeded.
        * tests/t9010-big-sector.sh (cleanup_): Remove.

2009-11-02  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: move scsi_debug framework into shared script
        * tests/t-local.sh (-scsi_debug_cleanup_, wait_for_dev_to_appear_):
        (print_sd_names_, scsi_debug_setup_): New functions, factored out of ...
        * tests/t9010-big-sector.sh: ...this file.

        tests: document and begin to factor out scsi_debug framework
        * tests/t9010-big-sector.sh: Add comments, fix a bug in
        "comm" usage, prepare to factor out scsi_debug framework.

        tests: add a helper program to print alignment info for a device
        * tests/print-align.c: New file.
        * tests/Makefile.am (check_PROGRAMS): Define.
        (AM_CPPFLAGS, LDADD): Define.
        (AM_CFLAGS): Enable warnings here, too, by adding
        $(WARN_CFLAGS) and $(WERROR_CFLAGS).

2009-11-01  Hans de Goede  <hdegoede@redhat.com>

        Implement get_partition_alignment DiskOp for all labels which need it
        Implement get_partition_alignment DiskOp for all labels which require
        an alignment with a grain_size != 1.

        libparted: add ped_disk_get_partition_alignment() function
        This functions get the alignment needed for partition boundaries on this disk.
        The returned alignment describes the alignment for the start sector of the
        partition, for all disklabel types which require alignment, except Sun
        disklabels, the end sector must be aligned too. To get the end sector
        alignment decrease the PedAlignment offset by 1.

2009-11-01  Hans de Goede  <hdegoede@redhat.com>

        libparted: add ped_device_get_xxx_aligned_constraint() functions
        Add ped_device_get_minimal_aligned_constraint() and
        ped_device_get_optimal_aligned_constraint() functions to libparted.

        These functions can be used to get a device constraint taking alignment into
        account.

2009-11-01  Hans de Goede  <hdegoede@redhat.com>

        ped_device_get_constraint: return constraint without alignment
        In libparted-1.9 ped_device_get_constraint() would always return a constraint
        without any start / end aligning (grain_size == 1). Now that we are starting to
        support disks with a physical sector size other then 512, the old
        ped_device_get_constraint() code may actually start returning constrains
        with alignment info with a grain_size != 1.

        Since this is a behavior change and since the old code does not take a possible
        alignment info into account, this patch removes the aligning code from
        ped_device_get_constraint(), so that its behavior is unchanged.

        This patch also updates the functions doxygen documentation to reflect what
        it has actually done all these years.

2009-11-01  Hans de Goede  <hdegoede@redhat.com>

        linux: add get_xxx_alignment() functions
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (get_minimum_alignment): New function.
        (get_optimum_alignment): New function.

        linux: save blkid topology in arch_specific data for later use
        This is a preparation patch for adding get_minimum_alignment
        and get_optimum_alignment functions to linux's _PedDeviceArchOps.
        * libparted/arch/linux.h (struct_LinuxSpecific) [probe, topology]:
        Add members.
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (linux_new): initialize
        arch_specific->probe and arch_specific->topology to NULL,
        (linux_destroy): Free arch_specific->probe.
        (get_minimum_io_size): Remove function.
        (get_blkid_topology): New function.
        (_device_set_sector_size): Call get_blkid_topology() instead of
        get_minimum_io_size() and retrieve minimum io size from the cached
        topology.

2009-11-01  Hans de Goede  <hdegoede@redhat.com>

        libparted: add ped_device_get_xxx_alignment() functions
        Add ped_device_get_minimum_alignment() and ped_device_get_optimum_alignment()
        functions to libparted.

        Note this is a resent of my previous patchset with a number of typos corrected:
        aligment -> alignment
        minimal_alignment -> minimum_aligment
        optimal_alignment -> optimum_aligment

        Sorry for the noise.

2009-10-29  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: protect t7000 from the environment
        * tests/t7000-scripting.sh: Initialize fail=0, so that an
        environment setting cannot perturb the test.

        tests: convert to new testing framework
        * tests/t0200-gpt.sh: Convert to new testing framework.
        * tests/t0201-gpt.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/t0300-dos-on-gpt.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/t0100-print.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/t0250-gpt.sh: Likewise.

        dvh: document an as-yet-unplugged (but not serious) leak
        * libparted/disk.c (ped_disk_add_partition): List some of the
        things I've tried to plug a leak exposed by a root-only test
        on dvh's partition-creation error path.  This leak is enough
        of a corner case that I may even leave it for now, and add a
        suppression for it, so that we're not distracted by it.

2009-10-28  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        dvh: plug three constraint-sized leaks
        * libparted/labels/dvh.c (dvh_read, dvh_alloc_metadata):
        Free constraint upon failure, too.

        ui: plug multiple command_line_get_word leaks
        * parted/parted.c (do_mkpart, do_print):

        check: plug an even smaller (formatted "unit") leak
        * libparted/disk.c (ped_disk_check): Free fs_size also upon success.

        check: plug a geometry-sized leak
        * libparted/disk.c (ped_disk_check): Destroy "geom", when done with it.

        loop: don't leak a sector in loop_clobber
        * libparted/labels/loop.c (loop_clobber): Replace leaky open-coded
        version with a use of Use ptt_clear_sectors.

        tests: t7000: remove mkpartfs tests
        This test tested both mkpart and mkpartfs.
        * tests/t7000-scripting.sh: Remove the mkpartfs tests.

        tests: remove tests that are too FS-centric
        * tests/t1000-mkpartfs.sh: Remove file.
        * tests/t1500-small-ext2.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/t2000-mkfs.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/t3100-resize-ext2-partion.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/t3000-constraints.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Remove them here, too.

2009-10-27  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        ui: plug a constraint leak in do_mkpart
        * parted/parted.c (do_mkpart): Free constraint after using it to
        add partition.

        gpt: plug two gpt-header leaks in gpt_read_headers
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (gpt_read_headers): Free locals pri and/or
        bak if they are not valid.

        gpt: plug a 1-sector leak in gpt_read_headers
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (gpt_read_headers): Free a sector.

        ui: plug a leak (partition_print_flags)
        * parted/parted.c (do_print): Free flags, after printing.

        libparted: plug an FS-alias-related leak
        * libparted/filesys.c (ped_file_system_alias_unregister):
        Free the alias we've just unregistered.

2009-10-26  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        doc: update NEWS
        * NEWS (Bug fixes): Describe two.

2009-10-23  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        gpt: header validity: also consider whether a PE array crc matches
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (check_PE_array_CRC): New function.
        (_header_is_valid): Use it to verify that partition entry array
        checksums match, too.
        Karel Zak noticed that this check was not being performed.
        * tests/t0280-gpt-corrupt.sh: Adapt to changed diagnostic.

        gpt: tweak interfaces to pass disk, not disk->dev
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c: required for upcoming CRC-checking function.

        gpt: don't ignore an improbable (1-in-2^32) failure
        pth_crc32 mapped failure to a crc32 value of 0.  If that happened
        to match the stored value, there would be no indication that there
        had been a malloc failure.
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (pth_crc32): Change interface so we can
        distinguish failure from a CRC value of 0.
        Update all callers.
        (_generate_header): Now that we recognize pth_crc32 can fail,
        we must admit that its void-returning caller _generate_header
        may fail, too.  Return "int" and adjust *its* callers.

        gpt: factor out code that is about to be reused
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c: Include <errno.h>.
        (gpt_read_PE_array): New function, ...
        (gpt_read): ...factored out of this one.  Use it.

        gpt: don't dereference NULL upon OOM (pth_get_raw callers)
        Handle each case in which pth_get_raw may return NULL.
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (pth_get_raw): Upon OOM error, return 0
        rather than dereferencing NULL.
        (gpt_write): Don't dereference NULL upon OOM error.
        (gpt_read): Yet another.

        gpt: don't dereference NULL upon OOM (in pth_get_raw)
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (pth_get_raw): Don't dereference NULL
        on out of memory error.

        gpt: remove dead store
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (pth_crc32): Remove useless initialization.

        gpt: make an internal function "const"-correct
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (_parse_header): Make "gpt" const.

        tests: convert t0280 to new test style.
        * tests/t0280-gpt-corrupt.sh: Convert to new test style.
        * tests/t-lib.sh: Source t-local.sh.
        * tests/t-local.sh: New file.

        gpt: clean up
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (gpt_probe): Remove now-useless test before
        pth_free.
        (gpt_read): Use ptt_clear_sectors in place of open-coded equivalent.
        * cfg.mk (useless_free_options): Add --name=pth_free.

2009-10-23  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        gpt: make its header check a tiny bit more strict
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (_header_is_valid): Declare a header
        to be invalid if its AlternateLBA is the same as MyLBA.

        2009-10-21  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        complete most of gpt-CRC-related rewrite
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (_read_header): Remove now-unused function.

2009-10-23  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        t0280-gpt-corrupt.sh: adapt for new output, improve test

        gpt: rewrite GPT header-reading code
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (read_header): Remove now-unused function.
        (gpt_read_headers): New function.
        (gpt_read): Rewrite to use gpt_read_headers.

        gpt: require that the backup table's AlternateLBA is 1
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (_header_is_valid): When checking
        the backup header, ensure that its AlternateLBA is 1.

        tests: gpt: test for detection of corrupt backup partition header
        * tests/t0280-gpt-corrupt.sh: Corrupt the backup partition header's
        MyLBA, and require that an attempt to print the table fails.

        tests: hook up new GPT-crc-corrupting script
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add t0280-gpt-corrupt.sh.
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (gpt_read): Change diagnostic to say that
        the PTE CRC mismatch is in the primary table.
        * tests/t0280-gpt-corrupt.sh: Tweak diagnostic to match
        what the code now prints.

        gpt: also verify MyLBA when checking table validity
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (_header_is_valid): Add parameter, my_lba.
        (_read_header): Update caller.
        (_parse_header): Comment out this use of _header_is_valid
        in an assertion.

        gpt: clean up formatting of static initializers
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (NULL_IF_DISCOVER_ONLY): Define.
        (gpt_disk_ops): Use it to avoid in-decl #if directives.

2009-10-20  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        gpt.c: filter through indent --no-tabs...
        and manual fix-up to shorten long lines.
        Also, manually format the static initializers in e.g., gpt_disk_ops,
        since GNU indent botches that.

2009-10-19  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        gpt: add a comment
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (_header_is_valid): Add a comment to explain
        the new partition entry size limitation of UINT32_MAX/16.

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

        tests: use scsi_debug to test-for 4k-sector-specific bug
        * tests/t9010-big-sector.sh: New root-only test.
        Requires 2.6.31, and the scsi_debug module, /sys/block/... support
        and an upcoming version of libblkid.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add t9010-big-sector.sh.
        Thanks to Mike Snitzer for advice and for pointing me to similar
        code he wrote to test LVM.

        tests: begin the transition to coreutils' testing framework
        The existing testing framework makes it hard to diagnose test failures,
        so I'm switching to one that works better for me, from coreutils.
        * tests/t-lib.sh: New file.  Mostly from coreutils/tests/test-lib.sh.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TMPDIR): Update to pass more info to test scripts.
        (EXTRA_DIST): Add t-lib.sh.

        linux: use libblkid to determine ->phys_sector_size
        Before this change, creating a memory-mapped disk on a fedora-based
        system running 2.6.31.1-56.fc12.x86_64 using this command:
        modprobe scsi_debug dev_size_mb=1025 sector_size=4096
        and then running "parted -s /dev/sdd mklabel gpt print"
        would mistakenly print "Sector size (logical/physical): 4096B/512B"
        The "512B" is what's wrong.  It should be "4096B".
        * configure.ac: Test for a new-enough blkid library.
        * libparted/Makefile.am (libparted_la_LIBADD): Add $(LIB_BLKID).
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (get_minimum_io_size): New function.
        (_device_set_sector_size): Use it.

        libparted: weaken a diagnostic
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_kernel_reread_part_table): Give a more
        accurate diagnostic.  Reported by Curtis Gedak.

        gpt: verify CRC32 of partition table entry array, too
        The partition table entry array's CRC was not being verified at all.
        This adds an interim check.  The full-blown change required to make
        this implementation conform to the EFI spec will be more invasive.
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (gpt_read): Check CRC of PTE array, too.
        * tests/t0280-gpt-corrupt.sh: New test for this.
        Reported by Karel Zak.

        doc: mention the "bios_grub" flag
        I don't like the idea of documenting this "flag setting" option,
        but it's been in the code for long enough now, and in actual use,
        that I feel obliged.  In the longer term, we'll probably deprecate
        it and instead add an interface to set a partition's type independent
        of mkpart's "type" argument.
        * doc/parted.texi (set): Mention bios_grub.

        tests: gpt: do not munge GPT data manually
        Otherwise, an upcoming change would cause this test to fail.
        * tests/t5000-tags.sh: Do not munge GPT data manually, since that
        does not update embedded CRCs, and thus renders it invalid.
        Set the attribute via "set 1 bios_grub on" instead.
        Also, use "name1" as the partition name, rather than the
        misleading "primary".
        Adjust diagnostics: the changes we make are no longer "manual."

2009-10-08  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        libparted: fix big-endian bug in gpt_get_max_supported_partition_count
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (gpt_get_max_supported_partition_count):
        Convert ->SizeOfPartitionEntry from little-endian to CPU endianness
        here, too.  This is along the same lines as commit d6e9b3bb, but
        with the difference that this code is not reachable via the
        command-line interface.

2009-10-06  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        post-release administrivia
        * NEWS: Add header line for next release.
        * .prev-version: Record previous version.
        * cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Auto-update.

        version 2.0
        * NEWS: Record release date.

        gpt: don't malfunction on big-endian systems
        Numerous GPT tests would fail when run on e.g., big-endian PPC.
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (gpt_read): Now that we use the
        SizeOfPartitionEntry member, be sure to convert from GPT's
        little-endian on-disk format to to CPU endianness.
        This bug was introduced via commit 14cce9b2, 2009-06-10, "gpt:
        fix gpt_read to read all of the partition entries correctly".
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (_header_is_valid): Also convert it here.
        Add a test to ensure that the partition entry size is no larger
        than the slightly arbitrary UINT32_MAX/16.
        * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

        maint: add gnulib's gnu-web-doc-update module
        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add gnu-web-doc-update

        doc: add pointer to NEWS in README
        * README: Mention NEWS.

        doc: update README
        * README (WARNING): Mention upcoming removal of FS-manipulation
        capabilities and that we'll retain FAT/HFS resize capabilities.
        Remove an obsolete URL.  Do not encourage email to individuals.
        Update info-viewing instructions, provide the on-line doc URL.

2009-10-06  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: resize FAT and HFS file systems
        Since it looks like we're stuck with keeping at least FAT and HFS
        file-system resizing support in libparted, we have an obligation to
        exercise at least some of that functionality.  For now, I've limited
        this test to shrinking well-aligned partitions by a well-behaved
        amount.  Curtis Gedak helped come up with a usable test.

        * tests/t3000-resize-fs.sh: New file.
        Use starting partition offset that is on a cylinder boundary,
        and increase the partition size to be larger than 256 MiB.
        When resizing, choose the new size to be exactly one cylinder
        (8MiB) smaller than the original.

2009-10-06  Hans de Goede  <hdegoede@redhat.com>

        ped_partition_busy: do not call the libparted exception handler
        Modify libparted/arch/linux.c _partition_get_part_dev() to not call
        _device_stat() but instead use stat directly, as _device_stat() calls
        the libparted exception handler, and we don't want this here, the only
        caller of _partition_get_part_dev() is _partition_is_mounted(), which
        in turn only gets called by linux_partition_is_busy(), and we don't
        want to "throw" exceptions from ped_partition_busy().

        This issue was noticed in combination with pyparted as used by
        anaconda, see: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/527035#c10

2009-10-01  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        doc: mention the GPT/msftres bug fix
        * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.

        parted: issue a warning upon any use of a file-system op
        * parted/parted.c (issue_fs_op_warning): New function.
        (do_cp, do_mkfs, do_mkpartfs, do_move, do_resize, do_check): Call it.
        * tests/test-lib.sh: Export the envvar setting,
        PARTED_SUPPRESS_FILE_SYSTEM_MANIPULATION_WARNING=1 to suppress
        those warnings while running the few remaining FS-related tests.

        maint: avoid false-positive NULL-deref warning from clang
        * parted/ui.c: Include <assert.h>.
        (command_line_get_disk): Add an assertion that command_line_get_device
        currently guarantees will always be true.  This placates clang regarding
        its sole NULL-deref warning.
        (command_line_get_device): Move declarations "down" to first use.

        build: use more gnulib modules for better POSIX compliance
        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add modules exposed via
        make CFLAGS=-DGNULIB_POSIXCHECK 2>&1 \
        |perl -lne '/.* use gnulib module (\S+).*/ and print $1' \
        |sort |uniq -c|sort -nr
        Add these: close fsync lseek mkstemp strdup unlink

        maint: function returning "int", did not return a value.
        * parted/ui.c (init_readline): Return a value (always 0 for now).
        * parted/parted.c (_init): Handle init_readline's return value.

        maint: remove more dead stores and fix a bug in do_mkpartfs
        * libparted/fs/ext2/ext2_mkfs.c (ext2_mkfs_create_lost_and_found_inode):
        Punt: suppress clang's (aka scan-build's) warning.
        * parted/parted.c (snap_to_boundaries): Remove a dead store.
        (do_mkpartfs): The apparent dead store to part_name exposed a real bug.
        In fact, it highlighted that while do_mkpart uses its "part_name"
        variable (and calls ped_partition_set_name), do_mkpartfs did not.
        (snap_to_boundaries): Remove dead store.
        * libparted/unit.c (parse_chs): Likewise, and a leak.
        * libparted/fs/hfs/reloc_plus.c (hfsplus_cache_from_catalog): Likewise.
        (hfsplus_cache_from_extent): Remove a dead store.
        (hfsplus_cache_from_attributes): Likewise.
        * libparted/fs/hfs/advfs_plus.c (hfsplus_btree_search): Likewise.
        * libparted/fs/ext2/ext2_block_relocator.c (ext2_block_relocate_shrink):
        Remove dead store and corresponding decl.
        * parted/ui.h: Mark 2nd parameter as non-null.

        maint: remove dead store code and declarations
        * libparted/labels/bsd.c (bsd_partition_set_flag): Remove dead store
        and corresponding decl.
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (init_ide): Likewise.
        (_dm_maptype): Likewise.
        (_mount_table_search): Likewise.
        * libparted/fs/amiga/asfs.c (_asfs_probe): Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/mac.c (mac_alloc_metadata): Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/rdb.c (amiga_write): Likewise.
        (amiga_write): Again.
        * libparted/fs/amiga/apfs.c (_generic_apfs_probe): Likewise.
        * libparted/fs/hfs/reloc_plus.c (hfsplus_effect_move_extent): Likewise.
        * libparted/fs/hfs/reloc.c (hfs_effect_move_extent): Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/dos.c (probe_partition_for_geom): Remove dead
        store in "can't happen" case.

        make PED_ASSERT handling sane: abort on false condition
        Upon a failed PED_ASSERT, Do not ask the interactive user if they want
        to continue.  This change will affect any code that expects to be able
        to continue after a failed PED_ASSERT condition.  However, such code is
        so fundamentally broken that this change is required.  If you require
        to be able to continue after a false condition, then the code must
        not use a macro named like PED_ASSERT.  This change was motivated by
        my desire to use the clang static analysis tool.  Without this change,
        there were over 300 mostly-false-positive reports.  With it, just 31,
        almost all legitimate.
        * libparted/debug.c (ped_assert): Remove first parameter.
        It is now tested via the macro.
        Now, this function always aborts, which helps clang understand.
        Do not ask the interactive user if s/he wants to continue.
        * include/parted/debug.h (PED_ASSERT): Test condition here,
        not in ped_assert.
        * libparted/disk.c (ped_disk_remove_partition): Remove the label
        that was used only upon failing PED_ASSERT.  Now that PED_ASSERT
        always aborts for a false condition, that would have been dead code.
        (ped_disk_new_fresh): Likewise.

        build: avoid a shadowing warning
        * libparted/fs/hfs/advfs_plus.c (hfsplus_get_empty_end): Rename local,
        "link" to avoid shadowing the syscall.
        * libparted/fs/hfs/advfs.c (hfs_get_empty_end): Likewise.

2009-09-29  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        fat-FS: do not modify fat file system support
        Revert "Add fat support for sector_size > 512."
        This reverts commit 14395c356664a3b88f3929a6a3ad69bca374f70d.

        Revert "Fix compile failures."
        This reverts commit 7603e404ee60f2f892be380a23c390f4638f451f.

        doc: update NEWS
        * NEWS: Mention >512-byte sector support.

        build: use newer bootstrap script
        * bootstrap: Update from coreutils.

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

        maint: update most copyright year lists to include 2009
        I used this command:
        make update-copyright \
          UPDATE_COPYRIGHT_FORCE=1 UPDATE_COPYRIGHT_USE_INTERVALS=1

        tests: enable more syntax-checks
        * cfg.mk: Enable a few more tests.
        * include/parted/debug.h: Remove useless parens to avoid
        triggering failure of the sc_useless_cpp_parens syntax-check.
        * libparted/arch/linux.h: Likewise.
        * libparted/libparted.c: Likewise.

        tests: enable a few syntax-checks
        * cfg.mk (local-checks-to-skip): Remove a few useless exclusions
        and enable a few syntax checks.
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (linux_destroy): Avoid triggering the
        sc_cast_of_argument_to_free check.
        * parted/strlist.c (str_list_destroy_node): Likewise.

2009-09-24  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: gpt: exercise creating all partition types; check for msftres bug
        Ensure that a newly-created partition in a GPT partition table has no
        'flag' set, by default.  This test also exercises setting the "name"
        on a partition and creates one partition of each supported type.
        * tests/t0220-gpt-msftres.sh: New file.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add that new file.

2009-09-24  Keshav P R  <skodabenz@rocketmail.com>

        gpt: don't use msftres flag for FAT/NTFS partitions
        This patch corrects the bug in parted due to which any FAT(12,16,32)
        or NTFS partition(s) is, by default, incorrectly set as "Microsoft
        Reserved Partition" type in GPT disks.  With this change, parted
        defaults to setting the FAT/NTFS Partitions partition type to
        Linux/Windows Basic Data Partition which will make them accessible
        in Mac OS X and Windows.

        Reported by hramrach@centrum.cz in <http://bugs.debian.org/441033>,
        with suggested change by Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>.
        Keshav P R <skodabenz@rocketmail.com> wrote the above and prepared
        this patch.

2009-09-24  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        ui: do not initialize readline (which would output!) in --script mode
        Running parted with its --script (-s) option would, surprisingly,
        print a few control characters if TERM were set appropriately,
        and if readline and curses support were compiled in.
        This fixes it not to do that.
        * parted/parted.c (_init): Initialize readline support only after
        parsing command line options, so we can skip it in --script mode.
        * parted/ui.c (init_readline): New function.
        Body extracted from ...
        (init_ui): ...here.
        * parted/ui.h (init_readline): Declare.
        * tests/t0010-script-no-ctrl-chars.sh: New file.  Test for the above.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add that new file.

2009-09-18  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        loop: don't infloop
        Correct a bug introduced in commit 52815877, 2007-06-15,
        "Make loop_probe and loop_clobber work with sector_size > 512, too."
        * libparted/labels/loop.c (loop_clobber): Initialize "i" before
        the loop, not inside it.
        * tests/t0400-loop-clobber-infloop.sh: Test for this.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.

2009-09-17  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: correct t1100-busy-label
        This test had two problems: FS-manipulation (creates a FAT fs) even
        for non-512-byte sectors, and it had a now-unexpected line in the
        expected output of its final command.
        * tests/t1100-busy-label.sh: Use require_512_byte_sector_size_,
        so that we skip this test when in non-512-sector size mode.
        Remove the now-bogus line.
        Note: this test is not normally run.
        In order to run it, you have to run as root and set two envvars, e.g.,
        sudo make check DEVICE_TO_ERASE=/dev/sde DEVICE_TO_ERASE_SIZE=16.4MB

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

        build: sync bootstrap from coreutils
        * bootstrap: Update from coreutils.

2009-08-28  Hans de Goede  <hdegoede@redhat.com>

        linux-commit: do not unnecessarily open partition device nodes
        After patching parted with my do-not-use-BLKPG patch, I started
        to get EBUSY errors on commit_to_os. Note this is not caused
        by the do-not-use-BLKPG patch, this was already happening, but
        parted was silently ignoring the errors (and the kernel was
        not notified of the changes, which is bad).  The error now
        actually gets reported.

        The problem turns out to be in libparted/arch/linux.c's
        _flush_cache function, which walks all the partitions of the
        disk and does BLKFLSBUF calls on them.  This causes the following:

        commit_to_os -> device_open -> fd = open /dev/sda ->
        _flush_cache -> for each /dev/sda# open, ioctl, close
        -> ioctl(fd, BLKRRPART) -> EBUSY

        What is happening here is that the:
        for each /dev/sda# open, ioctl, close

        Is causing udev change events for all the /dev/sda#
        nodes, which causes udev to call blkid on all these nodes
        (on systems which use DeviceKit), so blkid has /dev/sda# nodes
        open while BLKRRPART gets called on /dev/sda -> EBUSY.

        I've checked with two independend storage subsystem kernel
        developers, and /dev/sda and /dev/sda#, guarantee cache coherency
        now-a-days.  So there is no need to do this for 2.6, which also
        eliminates the need to call _flush_cache() on device open at all.

        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_have_kern26): New function.
        (_flush_cache): For linux kernels 2.6 and newer, don't flush
        partition devices.
        (linux_open): Skip _flush_cache on newer kernels here, too.

2009-08-28  Hans de Goede  <hdegoede@redhat.com>

        linux-commit: remove the use of the BLKPG ioctl
        While testing partitionable mdraid I noticed that the kernels
        view of the partition table never changes even though I was successfully
        making commit_to_os() calls.

        This has let to me diving into libparted's commit_to_os() code for Linux
        and there are multiple issues hiding in there:

        1) Parted reads /sys/block/foo/range to determine how many partitions
           the device type supports and then makes BLKPG ioctl's to update the
           kernels view of the partition table for partitions which fall into
           this range. However for example /sys/block/sda/range contains 16,
           there are 2 issue with libparted using this number:
           1) scsi major's only support 15 partitions, 1 of the range of 16
              is reserved for the whole device, yet libparted will try
              to notify the kernel about 16 partitions if present
           2) If the major's partition minor's run out, the kernel will switch
              to the mdp major for the other partitions, iow range no longer
              limits the number of partitions.

        2) libparted assumes the user knows what he is doing, and will ignore
           -ebusy errors for partitions, assuming that the user is smart enough
           to only change unused partitions. Parted does this without checking
           if the partitions which return ebusy actually are unchanged causing
           REAL errors to get unreported (BAD, really really BAD)

        3) because of 1) libparted will only sync 1 partition on /dev/md#
           devices (would be 0 if not for the of by 1 bug as all md#p#
           partitions use the mdp major), and it fails to even do that without
           reporting an error.

        ###

        1) we can fix by simply not checking /sys/block/foo/range, but instead
           just syncing max partitions.

        2) is more troublesome, we could just make -EBUSY n error,
           but that may annoy / bug some users. OTOH in certain cases libparted
           already falls back to BLKRRPART which will return EBUSY so users
           should already be prepared to handle EBUSY

        3) Could be fixed by making libparted recognize mdraid as a device type
           and except mdraid from using BLKPG, like it already is doing with
           DASD, but it might be better to just get rid of using BLKPG all
           together.  See below.

        An even bigger problem IMHO is the use of the BLKPG ioctl instead of
        BLKRRPART at all. What this does is tell the kernel parted's view
        of the partition table and make it use that, instead of telling
        the kernel to reread the partition table.  According to the parted
        sources this is done for the case where the kernel does not know
        the disklabel type. However as soon as the system is rebooted, the
        system will be using the kernel's view. So IMHO it would be much
        better to always use the kernels view and just always call BLKRRPART
        in commit_to_os(), this would solve all of the above issues, *and*
        make the way the system views the partition table consistent between
        just after running parted and after a reboot.

        I've attached a patch which removes the use of the BLKPG ioctl, notice
        that this also removes a lot of special case code and workarounds,
        which existence to me clearly indicates that using the BLKPG ioctl is
        a bad idea.

        * libparted/arch/linux.c (linux_disk_commit): Remove the use of the
        BLKPG ioctl.
        (_blkpg_add_partition, _blkpg_part_command, _blkpg_remove_partition):
        (_device_get_partition_range, _disk_sync_part_table, _have_blkpg):
        (_have_devfs): Remove functions thus rendered unused.

2009-08-28  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: make two partition-related tests work for other sector sizes
        These two root-only tests would fail with the PARTED_SECTOR_SIZE envvar
        set to anything other than 512.  Now they also work for multiples.
        * tests/t4100-dvh-partition-limits.sh: Make sector-size agnostic.
        * tests/t4100-msdos-partition-limits.sh: Likewise.

        tests: make it easier to diagnose loop_setup_ failure
        * tests/lvm-utils.sh: Don't redirect stderr to /dev/null.

        tests: avoid spurious failure due to extra space in diagnostic
        * libparted/labels/pt-tools.c (ptt_partition_max_start_len):
        Remove stray space in diagnostic that was causing the root-only
        regression test, t4100-dvh-partition-limits.sh, to fail.

        tests: avoid spurious failure on "nodev" mounted partition
        * tests/t8000-loop.sh: Skip this test if loop_setup_ fails.
        * tests/t6000-dm.sh: Likewise.

2009-08-28  Hans de Goede  <hdegoede@redhat.com>

        parted: avoid unnecessary open/close on commit, and thus udev activity
        * libparted/disk.c (ped_disk_commit): Open/close the underlying file
        descriptor in this function, so that callees, ped_disk_commit_to_dev
        and ped_disk_commit_to_os do not each perform open/close syscalls.
        This saves an open/close pair, and thus avoids unneeded udev
        activity on Linux.

        Before this change, when calling commit() on a ped_disk, the
        following would happen:

        open /dev/sda
        write partition table
        close /dev/sda
        open /dev/sda
        ioctl (BLKRRPART)
        close /dev/sda

        This is rather inefficient, and causes 2 udev change events to be fired
        for /dev/sda (+ the change events from the BLKRRPART), causing all kind
        of scanning (blkid & friends) twice.

        This patch fixes things to only open the device once.

2009-08-26  Petr Uzel  <petr.uzel@suse.cz>

        dos: adjust variable declarations
        * libparted/labels/dos.c (write_ext_table): Move declaration of S down
        to just before its first use.
        Fix alignment of lba_offset declaration.

        dos: factor out and define DOS_N_PRI_PARTITIONS
        * dos.c (DOS_N_PRI_PARTITIONS): Define.

        dos: use sizeof(variable) instead of sizeof(type)
        * libparted/labels/dos.c (write_ext_table): Use sizeof(variable)
        instead of sizeof(type)
        (write_empty_table, msdos_write): Likewise.

        tests: t0202-gpt-pmbr.sh: various fixes
        * tests/t0202-gpt-pmbr.sh: use $bootcode_size variable instead
        of plain 446.  Do not use /dev/urandom since it might not exist.

        tests: t2300-dos-label-extended-bootcode.sh: various fixes
        * tests/t2300-dos-label-extended-bootcode.sh:
        - fix typo where only first 400B of fake bootcode was installed
        - use bootcode_size variable and increase its value from 440 to 446
        - do not use /dev/urandom since it might not exist

2009-08-22  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        build: ignore more generated files
        * .gitignore: Ignore a few more build artifacts.

        tests: don't use "echo -n"
        * tests/t7000-scripting.sh: Use printf, not "echo -n", for portability.

2009-08-21  Petr Uzel  <petr.uzel@suse.cz>

        test for the bootcode-in-extended-partition fix
        * tests/t2300-dos-label-extended-bootcode.sh: New file.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add t2300-dos-label-extended-bootcode.sh.

        do not discard bootcode from extended partition
        * libparted/labels/dos.c (write_ext_table): Do not discard
          bootcode from extended partition on msdos label when some of
          the logical partitions are changed

2009-08-21  Joel Granados Moreno  <jgranado@redhat.com>

        Remove unneeded test.
        This test made sure that "md" was ignored when doing partition specific
        actions.  We have added code that allows this scan once more, therefore
        the test is no longer needed.

        * tests/t6001-dm-ignoremd.sh: Remove file.
        * tests/Makefile.am: Remove the test file from the list of tests.

2009-08-21  Joel Granados Moreno  <jgranado@redhat.com>

        Compensate for different behavior in t7000 test.
        When the t7000 test was first engineered the "n" did not appear in the
        output when testing mkpart & mkpartfs.  ATM, for an unknown reason,
        the "n" is being echoed in the resulting string causing test failure
        when compared with the errI string.  This patch attempts to make both
        behaviors (with and without the echoed "n") pass the test.

        * tests/t7000-scripting.sh: Make sure we don't have an " n" at the end
        of the output string.

2009-08-21  Gilles Espinasse  <g.esp@free.fr>

        Fix 2 typos.
        * libparted/labels/fdasd.c (fdasd_enqueue_new_partition): Fix typo in
        comment.
        * parted/parted.c (_init_commands): Fix typo in message.

2009-08-18  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        build: update dist-check rules
        * dist-check.mk: Merge from coreutils.

        build: ignore new -Wjump-misses-init warnings
        * configure.ac: Ignore warnings from gcc's new -Wjump-misses-init.

        build: update from gnulib
        * gnulib: Update submodule to latest.
        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add update-copyright
        * cfg.mk (update-copyright-env): Define.

2009-08-12  Otavio Salvador  <otavio@ossystems.com.br>

        label/dasd: add missing prototype for dasd_get_max_supported_partition_count

2009-08-06  Colin Watson  <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>

        Use fsync rather than O_DIRECT
        O_DIRECT doesn't work on all filesystems (e.g. tmpfs), and fsync does
        just as good a job to ensure that buffers are flushed.

        Based on
        http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2008-August/002392.html
        by Olaf Hering, but with added fsync/close error checking.

2009-07-31  Joel Granados Moreno  <jgranado@redhat.com>

        Update the NEWS has.
        * cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Update the NEWS hash.

2009-07-30  Joel Granados Moreno  <jgranado@redhat.com>

        Rescue the news file from the stable-1.8.x branch
        * NEWS:  Add all the contents from the NEWS file from the stable-1.8.x
        branch.  Did some indentation and addeded some "**" where needed.

2009-07-27  Joel Granados Moreno  <jgranado@redhat.com>

        Explicitly handle the signing key.
        If we are sure that we have the key, we are able to use it in any
        subroutine (like make major).

        * build-aux/parted-release (_find_signingkey): New function.
        (_do_release): Use the key_id to sign the tag and to execute `make
        major`.

2009-07-27  Joel Granados Moreno  <jgranado@redhat.com>

        Minor corrections to the release README.
        * README-release: Change "$v" to "$VERSION", its more explicit.  Include
        a reminder to add the definition of parted to the release mail.

2009-07-24  Colin Watson  <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>

        linux: recognize md devices again, but know they can't be partitioned
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_skip_entry): Don't skip "md" devices.
        (_has_partitions): New function; "loop" labels can't be partitioned.
        (_blkpg_add_partition, _blkpg_remove_partition, _dm_add_partition,
        _have_blkpg): Don't attempt to apply partition table changes to
        unpartitionable devices.

2009-07-24  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        dos: plug just-introduced leaks on error path
        * libparted/labels/dos.c (write_ext_table): Also free new buffer
        on error paths.

        dos: don't write sector-size (>512) bytes from a 512-byte buffer
        * libparted/labels/dos.c (write_ext_table): Fix this error reported
        by valgrind, by allocating/using a sector-sized buffer, rather than
        using a 512-byte buffer on the stack.
        Syscall param write(buf) points to uninitialised byte(s)
           at 0x33E12D13A0: __write_nocancel (in /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so)
           by 0x432B48: linux_write (linux.c:1782)
           by 0x42648C: write_ext_table (dos.c:1063)
           by 0x426471: write_ext_table (dos.c:1059)
           by 0x4268C5: msdos_write (dos.c:1094)
           by 0x40E9C4: ped_disk_commit_to_dev (disk.c:479)
           by 0x40EA08: ped_disk_commit (disk.c:502)
           by 0x408AE0: test_duplicate (disk.c:79)
           by 0x4C249ED: srunner_run_all (in /usr/lib64/libcheck.so.0.0.0)
           by 0x4089AD: main (disk.c:121)
         Address 0x4e48e00 is 512 bytes inside a block of size 1,024 alloc'd
           at 0x4A05260: memalign (vg_replace_malloc.c:460)
           by 0x4A05317: posix_memalign (vg_replace_malloc.c:569)
           by 0x432B06: linux_write (linux.c:1777)
           by 0x42648C: write_ext_table (dos.c:1063)
           by 0x426471: write_ext_table (dos.c:1059)
           by 0x4268C5: msdos_write (dos.c:1094)
           by 0x40E9C4: ped_disk_commit_to_dev (disk.c:479)
           by 0x40EA08: ped_disk_commit (disk.c:502)
           by 0x408AE0: test_duplicate (disk.c:79)
           by 0x4C249ED: srunner_run_all (in /usr/lib64/libcheck.so.0.0.0)
           by 0x4089AD: main (disk.c:121)

        sun: don't read freed memory
        * libparted/labels/sun.c (_use_old_info): Rename from
        _probe_and_use_old_info.  Don't read sector 0 here.
        (sun_write): Read it here instead.
        Write not a constant-sized 512-byte buffer, but the sector-sized
        buffer just read above.

        gpt: adjust _write_pmbr[*] to work with >512-byte sectors
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (_write_pmbr): Adjust, to work with
        larger-than 512-byte sectors.
        [*] commit 14a15891 "gpt: preserve first 446 bytes of the PMBR"

        tests: skip t2100-mkswap.sh for >512-byte SS, now that it fails
        * tests/t2100-mkswap.sh: Use require_512_byte_sector_size_

        build: arrange for "make check" to run the tests four times,
        each using a different simulated partition size.  First with an
        explicit size of 1024, then 2048, then 4096, and finally with
        the default of 512.
        * Makefile.am (check-other-sector_sizes): New rule.
        (check): Depend on it.
        * README-big-sector: Update accordingly.
        Suggestion from Otavio Salvador.

        build: enable many warnings
        * configure.ac: New configure-time option: --enable-gcc-warnings.
        * bootstrap.conf: Use gnulib modules: warnings manywarnings.
        * debug/Makefile.am: Define AM_CFLAGS.
        * libparted/Makefile.am: Likewise.
        * libparted/tests/Makefile.am: Likewise.
        * parted/Makefile.am: Likewise.
        * partprobe/Makefile.am: Likewise.
        * debug/clearfat/Makefile.am: Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/Makefile.am: Likewise.

        build: avoid new warnings
        * debug/clearfat/clearfat.c (usage): Declare static.
        * partprobe/partprobe.c (usage): Likewise.
        * libparted/cs/natmath.c (abs_mod, extended_euclid): Declare static.
        * libparted/timer.c (PED_TIMER_START_DELAY): Remove unused definition.
        * libparted/unit.c (ped_unit_format_custom_byte): Remove an unnecessary
        cast-to-double.

        sun: remove obsolete FIXME comments
        * libparted/labels/sun.c:

        ui: avoid infloop in testing
        These commands would provoke an infinite loop:
        ss=4096 N=100; dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=${ss}c count=$N
        ./parted ---pretend-input-tty testfile -- mklabel gpt mkpart \
          primary ext3 1s -1s < /dev/null
        * parted/ui.c (command_line_prompt_words): Treat EOF like ^C.

        tests: skip FS-related part when sector size is larger than 512
        * tests/t7000-scripting.sh: Adapt to work with large sector sizes.

        tests: handle SS>512, clean up, add consistency check
        * tests/t5000-tags.sh: Don't fail for sector size of 4096 and greater.

        tests: t4000-sun-raid-type: accommodate arbitrary sector sizes
        * tests/t4000-sun-raid-type.sh: Make the expected output depend
        on the sector size.

        tests: reenable sun label tests
        * libparted/tests/common.c (_implemented_disk_label): Remove "sun".

        disk.c: add assertions

        sun: don't segfault for sector sizes larger than 512
        * libparted/labels/sun.c Include "pt-tools.h" and "verify.h".
        (sun_verify_checksum): Make parameter "const".
        (sun_probe): Don't always return 0, now that this code works.
        (sun_probe): Rewrite to work with sector sizes larger than 512.
        (_probe_and_use_old_info): Likewise.
        (sun_clobber): Likewise.
        (sun_read): Likewise.
        (_check_geometry_sanity) Don't accept all-zeros c,h,s.
        Add assertions and uses of verify.
        (sun_alloc): Remove bogus cast.
        Don't modify through const pointer.

        msdos: clean-up (no semantic change)
        * libparted/labels/dos.c (msdos_write): Remove useless initialization.
        (msdos_clobber): Remove unnecessary cast.

        msdos: do not scale counts by sector_size/512
        * libparted/labels/dos.c (chs_to_sector, linear_start):
        (linear_end, fill_raw_part, fill_ext_raw_part_geom):
        (sector_to_chs): Scaling (e.g., a starting sector number) by
        sector_size/512 loses information when sector_size > 512.  Don't do it.

        parted-ui: when failing, include more information in an unusual case
        * libparted/cs/geom.c (ped_geometry_set): Include starting sector
        number and length in diagnostic.  To trigger this, run the following:
        dev=f; rm -f $dev; dd if=/dev/null of=$dev bs=1 seek=100k
        PARTED_SECTOR_SIZE=2048 ./parted -s $dev mklabel msdos
        PARTED_SECTOR_SIZE=2048 ./parted -s $dev mkpart primary 1s 40s
        PARTED_SECTOR_SIZE=2048 ./parted -s $dev p
        Error: Can't have the end before the start! (start sector=128 \
          length=-78)

        tests: t2200-dos-label-recog.sh: adapt to work with larger sector size
        Using a 100K image is inadequate for larger sector sizes, since it
        triggers a bug whereby the device length (in sectors) smaller than
        the cylinder_size: from dos.c:
          if (!ped_geometry_init (&start_geom, dev, cylinder_size,
              dev->length - cylinder_size))
        That would pass a negative value for the 3rd argument.
        * tests/t2200-dos-label-recog.sh: Use an image of size 10MB, not 100K.

        tests: add infrastructure: when skipping a test, say why
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Arrange for the first line
        of 'skip_test_'s argument to be printed on stderr.
        * tests/test-lib.sh (skip_test_): New function.

        tests: skip FS-related tests when sector size != 512
        * tests/test-lib.sh (require_512_byte_sector_size_): New function.
        * tests/t1000-mkpartfs.sh: Skip when sector size != 512.
        * tests/t3100-resize-ext2-partion.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/t3000-constraints.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/t2000-mkfs.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/t1700-ext-probe.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/t1500-small-ext2.sh: Likewise.

        tests: t0100-print.sh: adjust to work with arbitrary sector size
        * tests/t0100-print.sh: Parameterize on $sector_size_.
        Remove sed xform that hard-coded for 2048.

        tests: revamp t4100-starting-sector.sh to work with other sector sizes
        * tests/t4100-msdos-starting-sector.sh: Adjust to work with arbitrary
        PARTED_SECTOR_SIZE.

        tests: correct t2200-dos-label-recog.sh
        * tests/t2200-dos-label-recog.sh: Concatenate output from successive
        partition-creation commands, rather than letting output from the
        second one clobber that of the first.

2009-07-24  Joel Granados Moreno  <jgranado@redhat.com>

        put the maximum sector checks in pt-tools.c
        * libparted/labels/dos.c (msdos_partition_check): Use new
        ptt_partition_max_start_len function to test for len and start maxs.
        * libparted/labels/dvh.c (msdos_partition_check): Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/pt-tools.c (ptt_partition_max_start_len):
        New function.
        * libparted/labels/pt-tools.h: Likewise.
        * po/POTFILES.in: Add pt-tools.c to the translation list.

2009-07-24  Joel Granados Moreno  <jgranado@redhat.com>

        put partition-table-specific logic in the corresponding files
        * include/parted/disk.h (struct _PedDiskOps) [partition_check]:
        New member function.
        * libparted/disk.c (_check_partition): Replace open-coded tests with
        use of the new ->partition_check().
        (_partition_max_start, _partition_max_len): Remove functions.

        * libparted/labels/dvh.c (dvh_partition_check): New function.
        * libparted/labels/dos.c (dos_partition_check): Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/aix.c (aix_partition_check): New stub.
        * libparted/labels/bsd.c (bsd_partition_check): Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (gpt_partition_check): Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/loop.c (loop_partition_check): Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/mac.c (mac_partition_check): Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/pc98.c (pc98_partition_check): Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/rdb.c (rdb_partition_check): Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/sun.c (sun_partition_check): Likewise.

2009-07-24  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        * .gitignore: Ignore more.

        tests: clean up partition-table-testing code
        * libparted/tests/common.c (_implemented_disk_label): Record here
        that sun and pc98 are not yet implemented...
        * libparted/tests/label.c: ...rather than in 4 places in this file.

        tests: improve coverage in label tests
        * libparted/tests/label.c (create_disk): Increase image size from
        20MB to 80MB, so that tests with PARTED_SECTOR_SIZE=8192 don't
        fail right away.
        (START_TEST): Don't skip the "loop" type.  It works now.

        tests: make t8000-loop.sh stop immediately upon failiure
        * tests/t8000-loop.sh (immediate): ... to avoid cascading.

        tests: fix the final test failure on RHEL 5.3
        * tests/t1700-ext-probe.sh (dev): Use mkfs.$type, not mkfs -t $type.
        The latter doesn't work on RHEL5: a file system created with
        "mkfs -F -t ext3" appears to be created as ext2.

        tests: skip xfs-requiring tests when mkfs.xfs is not installed
        * tests/test-lib.sh (require_xfs_): New function.
        * tests/t4100-dvh-partition-limits.sh: Use it.
        * tests/t4100-msdos-partition-limits.sh: Likewise.

        tests: skip t7000-scripting.sh if configure without readline
        Otherwise, that test would fail due to slight differences in output.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Define CONFIG_HEADER.
        * tests/t7000-scripting.sh: Skip if configured without readline.

        tests: don't infloop for manual test invocation with unrecognized option
        * tests/test-lib.sh: Diagnose an invalid option.

        tests: add one to exercise the dos/gpt seg-faulting bug
        * tests/t0300-dos-on-gpt.sh: Test for this bug.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it to the list.

        gpt_clobber: avoid segfault when 512 < sector_size
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (gpt_clobber): Rewrite not to use a
        fixed-size buffer assuming a 512-byte sector.
        Eliminate entirely a buffer that is allocated (not long enough)
        and zeroed-out solely so to help zero out a few sectors.
        Instead, use the new ptt_clear_sectors function.

        ptt_clear_sectors: new function
        * libparted/labels/pt-tools.c (ptt_clear_sectors): New function.
        * libparted/labels/pt-tools.h: Declare.

        linux_write: use sector_size, not hard-coded 512
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (linux_write): Use sector_size,
        not a hard-coded 512, to find start of last sector.

        parted/ui.c: Include <config.h> before everything else

        * README-big-sector: New file.

        reenabling probe-related code exposed problems with amiga and bsd
        * libparted/tests/common.c (_implemented_disk_label): Pretend they're
        not implemented, so we skip them, temporarily.

        tests: re-enable "mac" tests
        * libparted/tests/label.c: Remove "mac" exclusion.

2009-07-24  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        mac clone: avoid failed assertion for sector size > 512
        * libparted/labels/mac.c (mac_duplicate): Do not assume that
        the first sector of the partition-map partition is "1".

        Running this: cd libparted/tests &&
        PARTED_SECTOR_SIZE=1024 CK_FORK=no valgrind ./label
        would result in a failed assertion:

          ped_disk_remove_partition (...) at disk.c:1897
          1897  PED_ASSERT (part->part_list == NULL, goto error);

        At first glance, it looked like the free(part) in
        mac_partition_destroy was the culprit.  And removing that free
        does indeed avoid the failed assertion.  However, not only does
        the name "mac_partition_destroy" imply/require the "free", but
        all other *_partition_destroy functions free their PART parameter,
        so removing this free statement cannot be the solution.

        Another possibility is that mac_duplicate's use of
        ped_disk_remove_partition is in error.  Removing it appears
        to solve the problem, but I don't know why that code is removing
        the partition-map partition manually, so can't safely remove
        such a thing.

        The real problem is that with >512-byte sectors, the "1" in this
        code from mac_duplicate is wrong:

          partition_map = ped_disk_get_partition_by_sector (new_disk, 1);
          PED_ASSERT (partition_map != NULL, return 0);
          ped_disk_remove_partition (new_disk, partition_map);

        E.g., with 1024-byte sectors, the desired partition-map
        partition starts at sector 2, so the above gets the tiny
        metadata partition in the gap.  Calling ped_disk_remove_partition
        to remove a metadata partition provokes some nasty corruption.
        The desired first-sector number is old_mac_data->ghost_size, not "1".

2009-07-24  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        * libparted/labels/mac.c (mac_duplicate): Remove dead code.

        mac partitions pass all label+disk tests @1024 & @2048 sector size
        * libparted/labels/mac.c (mac_read): Allow for variable sector size.
        (_pad_raw_part): Likewise.
        (get_pme): New convenience function, adapted to work for
        variable sector size and factored out of 4 functions:
        (_generate_raw_part): ...here,
        (_generate_raw_freespace_part): ...here,
        (_generate_empty_part): ...here,
        (_get_first_empty_part_entry): ...and here.

        mac.c (_disk_analyse_ghost_size): allow >512-byte sector size
        * libparted/labels/mac.c (_disk_analyse_ghost_size):

        mac.c: remove dead code
        * libparted/labels/mac.c (mac_partition_new): Remove dead code.
        Return "NULL", not "0".

        make "mac" partition table support pass the 512-byte ./label tests
        * libparted/labels/mac.c (mac_probe, mac_clobber): FIX!

        factor out the read_sector function
        * libparted/labels/pt-tools.c (ptt_read_sector): New function.
        Factored out of...
        * libparted/labels/aix.c (aix_probe, aix_clobber, read_sector):
        * libparted/labels/bsd.c (bsd_probe, bsd_clobber, bsd_read)
        (_probe_and_add_boot_code, read_sector):
        * libparted/labels/dos.c (_, msdos_probe, msdos_clobber)
        (read_table, msdos_write, msdos_disk_type, read_sector):
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (gpt_probe, gpt_disk_type, read_sector):
        * libparted/labels/loop.c (loop_probe, loop_read, loop_disk_type)
        (read_sector):
        * libparted/labels/mac.c (_, mac_probe, mac_read)
        (write_block_zero, mac_disk_type, read_sector):
        * libparted/labels/pt-tools.h: Declare.

        fix >512-byte sector label/disk-test failure
        * libparted/tests/disk.c: Include xstrtol.h.
        (get_sector_size): New function: get sector size from the environment.
        (create_disk): Use the new function to calculate a usable size,
        rather than hard-coding the 512-byte-sector-specific size of 20MB.
        * libparted/tests/common.c (_create_disk): Change meaning (and name)
        of parameter to be size in bytes, not MiB.
        Adjust callers.
        * po/POTFILES.in: Add lib/xstrtol-error.c.

        linux.c: also set phys_sector_size. Must be the same.

        tests: Phew! finally make t5000-tags.sh work with >512-byte sectors
        * tests/t5000-tags.sh: Many adjustments, along lines of t0200-gpt.
        Also, be explicit: bios_boot_magic goes in 2nd *sector*.

        Don't hard-code 512 for sector-size.
        We'd get the wrong value for dev->length.
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (init_file): In computing dev->length,
        divide by dev->sector_size (not 512) to compute number of sectors.
        Define dev->sector_size earlier.

        test basic GPT functionality earlier
        * tests/t0250-gpt.sh: New file.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.

        tests: avoid test output mismatch for >512-byte sectors
        * tests/test-lib.sh (normalize_part_diag_): New function.
        (sector_size_): New variable.
        * tests/t7000-scripting.sh: Use them.

        tests: make t5000-tags.sh less sensitive to >512-byte sector size
        * tests/t5000-tags.sh: Use -m option and "unit s".
        FIXME: But still fails when invoked via
        PARTED_SECTOR_SIZE=2048 ./t5000-tags.sh --verbose --debug

        t7000-scripting.sh: adapt to work with >512-byte sectors

        label.c tests: don't skip dvh, now that it works; clean up

        dvh: probe, read, clobber, write: adapt for >512-byte sectors

        bsd.c: use pt-tools
        * libparted/labels/bsd.c: Include pt-tools.h.
        (bsd_write): Use ptt_write_sector.

        the beginnings of library partition-table tools
        * libparted/labels/pt-tools.h: New file.
        * libparted/labels/pt-tools.c: New file.
        * libparted/labels/Makefile.am (liblabels_la_SOURCES): Add them.

        avoid dvh label-clone test failure
        * libparted/labels/dvh.c (dvh_duplicate): Initialize with
        ped_disk_new_fresh, not with _ped_disk_alloc.  The former
        sets disk->update_mode = 1, as required (and enforced via an
        assertion in ped_disk_destroy).

        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (gpt_clobber): Plug a leak.

        amiga: Avoid writing uninitialized 1.5KB after initial 512B.

2009-07-24  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        disable some file-system-related probe tests for sector size > 512
        These changes keep us from recognizing most file systems
        when the sector size is larger than 512.  However, for now (while
        concentrating on getting partition table support right) that's not
        a problem.  Besides, the code we're avoiding would inevitably make
        parted smash its stack.

        * libparted/fs/linux_swap/linux_swap.c (_generic_swap_probe): Fail
        the swap-file-system-recognizing test when sector size is not 512.
        * libparted/filesys.c (ped_file_system_probe_specific): Fail all
        fs-specific probe-related tests when sector size is not 512.
        * libparted/fs/jfs/jfs.c (jfs_probe): For now, don't even try to
        deal with larger sector size.
        * libparted/label.c: Skip tests of problematic file system types.
        * tests/t0100-print.sh: Print with units of sectors, and adjust
        expected output accordingly.
        * tests/t1000-mkpartfs.sh: Use a smaller test file.

2009-07-24  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        Fix compile failures.

        Add fat support for sector_size > 512.

        avoid compiler warnings
        * libparted/fs/ext2/interface.c (_ext2_generic_probe): Likewise.
        (_ext2_clobber): Likewise.

        Make loop_probe and loop_clobber work with sector_size > 512, too.

        Still working on making label support work.
        * libparted/fs/ext2/interface.c (_ext2_generic_probe): The call to
        ped_geometry_read_alloc would clobber the stack after SB whenever
        block_size > 512.  Instead, use new function, ped_geometry_read_alloc,
        and adjust all uses of SB.
        (_ext2_clobber): Likewise.
        * libparted/cs/geom.c (ped_geometry_read_alloc): New function.
        * include/parted/geom.h: Declare it.

        (msdos_clobber): Plug the leak I just introduced.

        Make "mklabel loop" work with >512 sector_size, even when...
        there is an existing "msdos" label.
        (msdos_clobber): Make it work with >512 sector_size.

        Make "mklabel loop" work with >512 sector_size.

        Make "mklabel msdos" work with >512 sector_size.

        Make "mklabel bsd" work with >512 sector_size.

        Make "mklabel mac" work with >512-byte sector_size.

        Add a FIXME comment.

        start to make things work with 2048-byte sector size.
        Done so far: amiga, bsd, loop, gpt.
        Fix leaks along the way.
        remove unused label
        Add a cast to avoid a warning.

2009-07-24  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        allow to simulate linux-file sector size via PARTED_SECTOR_SIZE envvar

2009-07-23  Joel Granados Moreno  <jgranado@redhat.com>

        post-release administrivia
        * NEWS: Add header line for next release.
        * .prev-version: Record previous version.
        * cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Auto-update.

        version 1.9.0
        * NEWS: Record release date.

2009-07-23  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        Revert "Point gnulib submodule to an existing object ref."
        This reverts commit 95486a979a8862df9f6f2129c2d9f35221340583.
        The reverted change mistakenly backdated gnulib to July 14.

2009-07-23  Joel Granados Moreno  <jgranado@redhat.com>

        Little fixes before the release.
        * README-release: Correct an error in step 5.  In step 6 we mean
        $VERSION.
        * build-aux/parted-release (_do_release): Use '-F -' to make the NEWS
        commit.

        Point gnulib submodule to an existing object ref.
        * gnulib: Update submodule to latest.

        Automate the release process.
        * build-aux/parted-release: New file. Automates the part of the release
        process that takes place in the local repository.

        Document our release proceedure.
        * README-release: New file.

        Update the NEWS file for the next release.
        * NEWS : Describe some of the latest bugfixes and behavioral changes.

2009-07-23  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        build: update from gnulib, for fixed maint.mk
        * gnulib: Update submodule to latest.

2009-07-22  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        build: avoid "make dist-hook" failure
        * Makefile.am (dist-hook): Remove coreutils-specific rm-substitution.

        build: avoid automake warning
        * libparted/Makefile.am (SUBDIRS_CHECK): Do not redefine.
        Instead, append to existing value.

2009-07-19  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        build: adjust Makefiles
        * libparted/Makefile.am (ARCH_SOURCE): Factor out duplication.
        * libparted/labels/Makefile.am (partedincludedir): Split long line.

2009-07-19  Otavio Salvador  <otavio@ossystems.com.br>

        Avoid compilation failure on s390
        To export LinuxSpecific stuff for labels, in this case fdasd, we now
        provide arch/linux.h. This aids in avoiding code duplication.

        * configure.ac: add BUILD_LINUX conditional.
        * libparted/Makefile.am: conditionally use linux.h.
        * libparted/arch/linux.c: move LinuxSpecific stuff to linux.h.
        * libparted/arch/linux.h: New file.
        * libparted/labels/Makefile.am: include from libparted as well.
        * libparted/labels/dasd.c: use arch/linux.h and use dev->path for
          error message.
        * libparted/labels/fdasd.c: include linux.h and drop an unused
          variable.

2009-07-16  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        build: avoid configure-time syntax error
        Running ./configure on a system without devmapper devel libraries
        would provoke this:
        ./configure: line 264: return: but: numeric argument required
        ./configure: line 24783: --enable-device-mapper: command not found
        * configure.ac: Add quotes to most AC_MSG_ERROR uses, both around
        the argument, and (when needed) around the macro use itself.

2009-07-11  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        ui: avoid NULL dereference on realloc failure
        * parted/strlist.c (gettext_to_wchar) [ENABLE_NLS]: Use xrealloc,
        so we never return NULL, which could then be dereferenced.

2009-07-10  Colin Watson  <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>

        Rationalise linux-swap fs names, and add a "linux-swap" alias
        * libparted/filesys.c (ped_file_system_alias_register,
        ped_file_system_alias_unregister, ped_file_system_alias_get_next): New
        functions.
        (ped_file_system_type_get): Walk aliases as well.
        * include/parted/filesys.h (struct _PedFileSystemAlias): New structure.
        (ped_file_system_alias_register, ped_file_system_alias_unregister,
        ped_file_system_alias_get_next): Add prototypes.
        * parted/parted.c (_init_messages): Walk file system aliases as well as
        types.
        * parted/ui.c (init_fs_type_str): Likewise.
        * libparted/fs/linux_swap/linux_swap.c (_swap_v1_type, _swap_v1_open,
        _swap_v1_probe, _swap_v1_clobber, _swap_v1_ops): Rename to _swap_v0_type
        etc. to match version number used in mkswap. Update all users.
        (_swap_v2_type, _swap_v2_open, _swap_v2_probe, _swap_v2_clobber,
        _swap_v2_ops): Rename to _swap_v1_type etc. to match version number used
        in mkswap. Update all users.
        (_swap_v0_type): Rename type from "linux-swap(old)" to "linux-swap(v0)".
        (_swap_v1_type): Rename type from "linux-swap(new)" to "linux-swap(v1)".
        (ped_file_system_linux_swap_init, ped_file_system_linux_swap_done):
        Register/unregister a "linux-swap" alias for "linux-swap(v1)", and
        deprecated aliases "linux-swap(old)" and "linux-swap(new)".
        * libparted/labels/misc.h (is_linux_swap): Update comment.
        * tests/t2100-mkswap.sh: Refer to "linux-swap(v1)" rather than
        "linux-swap(new)". Test creation via the new alias.

2009-07-09  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: disable the taint-distcheck rule
        * dist-check.mk (taint-distcheck): Disable rule, since it
        would trigger a bug in libtool-generated scripts.

        tests: better quoting to avoid failure with poorly-named src directory
        * libparted/tests/Makefile.am (init.sh): Quote, in case
        $(abs_top_srcdir) contains e.g., spaces.
        * tests/Makefile.am (init.sh): Likewise.
        * libparted/tests/t2000-disk.sh: Better quoting here, too.
        * libparted/tests/t1000-label.sh: Likewise.
        Reported by Joel Granados

        build: update from gnulib
        * gnulib: Update submodule to latest.
        * cfg.mk (local-checks-to-skip): Add sc_require_test_exit_idiom.
        This skips a new-from-gnulib test that doesn't apply here.

2009-06-17  Joel Granados Moreno  <jgranado@redhat.com>

        tests: ensure that we preserve the first 446 byts of a GPT pmbr
        * tests/t0202-gpt-pmbr.sh: Ensure that the first 446 bytes are
        unchanged after creating a GPT partition.

        gpt: preserve first 446 bytes of the PMBR (protective MBR)
        * libparted/label/gpt.c (_write_pmbr): Make sure we read and preserve
        the first 446 bytes of the device when we are creating the PMBR.

2009-06-17  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        build: update from gnulib
        * gnulib: Update submodule to latest.

        build: require autoconf-2.63 and automake-1.11
        * configure.ac (AC_PREREQ): Require 2.63, not 2.61.
        (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Require 1.11, not 1.10c.

2009-06-16  Colin Watson  <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>

        linux-swap: generate UUIDs for fresh swap spaces
        * libparted/fs/linux_swap/linux_swap.c: Generate a UUID when creating a
        fresh swap space.
        * tests/t2100-mkswap.sh: Test that two fresh swap spaces get different
        UUIDs, and that 'check' preserves the swap UUID.

2009-06-11  Joel Granados Moreno  <jgranado@redhat.com>

        tests: simplify t6001-dm-ignoremd.sh
        * tests/t6001-dm-ignoremd.sh (md_dev_create_): Use functions in
        test-util.sh for mdadm commands.  Move mddev_ to the top of the
        file.  Remove unneeded comment.

        tests: add mdadm specific functions
        * tests/test-lib.sh (require_mdadm_): New function.
        (mdadm_create_linear_device_): New function.

2009-06-10  Joel Granados Moreno  <jgranado@redhat.com>

        doc: improve mkpart description
        * doc/parted.texi: Make sure that part-type is portrayed as an
        optional argument.  Mention the "special behavior" that mkpart has
        with specific disk label types.

2009-06-10  Joel Granados Moreno  <jgranado@redhat.com>

        parted-ui: ensure cmd-line buffer is empty before ped_exception_throw
        When ped_exception_throw requires input from the user and there are
        leftover strings in the command line, there is an "invalid token" error
        from parted.  This happens because the ped_exception expects some input
        that is, most likely, different from the leftover string(s).  To address
        this, one must make sure that all the argument strings are parsed before
        invoking any exception that requires input.

        * parted/parted.c (do_mklabel): Call command_line_get_disk_type call
        before the disk checks (_disk_warn_loss will call ped_exception_throw).
        * tests/t0000-basic.sh: Adjust, now that the output need not include
        the error message.

2009-06-10  Joel Granados Moreno  <jgranado@redhat.com>

        tests: verify that "md" devices are not listed
        * tests/t6001-dm-ignored.sh: New test file.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.

        linux: skip "md" devices when probing
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_skip_entry) : Add "md" to the entries
        array so all devices of type "/dev/md#" get ignored.

2009-06-10  Joel Granados Moreno  <jgranado@redhat.com>

        fat: support 64KB clusters for FAT16
        * libparted/fs/fat/calc.c (fat_max_cluster_size): A 64KB cluster
        size (128 sectors) for FAT16 is not common but is possible.  Allow
        the use of 128-sector clusters instead of outputting an error.

        Fixes this:
            http://parted.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/ticket/207
        Additional info here:
            http://lists.alioth.debian.org/\
              pipermail/parted-devel/2009-June/002882.html

2009-06-10  Matthew S. Harris  <mharris312@gmail.com>

        gpt: fix gpt_read to read all of the partition entries correctly
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (gpt_read): Use the SizeOfPartitionEntry
        field value when reading the partition entries rather than assuming
        that the entries are the same size as our struct.
        (gpt_read): When reading the partition
        entries, round up, not down, the number of sectors to read.
        (_header_is_valid): Check that the SizeOfPartitionEntry is sane.
        With minor adjustments by Joel Granados Moreno.

2009-06-10  Joel Granados Moreno  <jgranado@redhat.com>

        Tweak distcheck.
        * dist-check.mk (install-transform-check): The binaries will be located
        in /sbin instead of /bin.

2009-06-03  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        build: require automake-1.11 via bootstrap.conf, too
        * bootstrap.conf (buildreq): s/1.10c/1.11/

        doc: sync README-hacking from coreutils
        * README-hacking: update

        build: rename internal library: lib/libparted -> lib/libgnulib
        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_name): Define gnulib_name=libgnulib.
        * libparted/Makefile.am (libparted_la_LIBADD): Update sole use.

        libparted: link with gnulib
        * libparted/Makefile.am (libparted_la_LIBADD): Add
        $(top_builddir)/lib/libparted.la to the list.
        * partprobe/Makefile.am (partprobe_LDADD): Remove now-unneeded
        $(top_builddir)/lib/libparted.la.
        * libparted/tests/Makefile.am (LDADD): Remove now-unneeded
        $(top_builddir)/lib/libparted.la.
        * debug/clearfat/Makefile.am (clearfat_LDADD): Likewise.
        * parted/Makefile.am (parted_LDADD): Likewise.
        Otavio Salvador reported that linking with the resulting shared
        library produced an unresolved reference to last_component.

2009-05-26  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: adjust t4100-msdos-starting-sector.sh
        * tests/t4100-msdos-starting-sector.sh: Use parted's -m option
        when printing, and adjust expected output to match.
        Filter out "Disk...:" part to avoid false-positive failures due
        to mount-point- related differences.

2009-05-26  Joel Granados Moreno  <jgranado@redhat.com>

        Add test for msdos starting sector.
        * tests/t4100-msdos-starting-sector.sh : Make sure we are consistent
          when displaying starting sector for msdos lables.

2009-05-26  Joel Andres Granados  <jgranado@redhat.com>

        Make sure we always create msdos metadata parts.
        Given a disk with no partition, parted did not create metadata
        partitions for an msdos label.  This led to inconsistencies when
        reporting free space partition ranges.  This patch addresses this issue.

        * libparted/labels/dos.c (get_last_part): Remove function.
        * libparted/labels/dos.c (get_start_first_nonfree_part): New function.
        * libparted/labels/dos.c (get_end_last_nonfree_part): New function.
        * libparted/lables/dos.c (add_startend_metadata): Add code that
        handles disks no partitions.  Add check that prevents the metadata
        partitions from being greater than the device length.  Add check
        that prevents metadata partitions from overlapping in small devs.

2009-05-26  Joel Granados Moreno  <jgranado@redhat.com>

        Improve readability in linux.c
        * libparted/arch/linux.c : Gather all the _is_major functions together.
        change the name of readFD to _read_fd since its not used anywhere
        else. Also rename the "_is_major_type" function to
        "_major_type_in_device" as it better expresses what we do in said
        function.

        Correctly name virtio devices.
        * include/parted/device.h (PedDeviceType): Add a new PED_DEVICE_VIRTBLK
        type to the list.
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_is_dm_major): Modify this function so it
        calls the new _is_major_type function with type "device-mapper".
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_is_major_type): Searches a major number
        inside /proc/devices based on a "type" string.
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_is_virtblk_major): New function.  Calls
        _is_major_type with type "virtblk".
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_device_probe_type): Add a new
        PED_DEVICE_VIRTBLK case to the probe possibilities.
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (linux_new): Add a new PED_DEVICE_VIRTBLK case
        to the possible device types.
        * parted/parted.c (do_print): add the "virtblk" string to the transport
        array.

2009-05-23  Otavio Salvador  <otavio@ossystems.com.br>

        Makefile.am: fail if ABI has changed

        configure.ac: fix PED_MINOR_VERSION sed expression

        add build-aux to .gitignore

2009-05-15  Joel Granados Moreno  <jgranado@redhat.com>

        build: enable device mapper support by default
        * configure.ac: Device mapper is ubiquitous enough: enable by default.
        Adjust --help and diagnostics to reflect the new default.

2009-05-15  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        portability: don't perform pointer arithmetic on a "void *" pointer
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_dm_remove_parts) [ENABLE_DEVICE_MAPPER]:
        Don't perform pointer arithmetic on a "void *" pointer.
        Interpose a (char *) cast.

        maint: cfg.mk: remove now-unnecessary gnulib_dir definition
        * cfg.mk (gnulib_dir): Remove definition, now that gnulib's
        maint.mk provides the default we want.

        build: require 1.10c (get it by building from automake.git)
        * bootstrap.conf (buildreq): Require 1.10c (1.11 is coming soon)
        for our use of AM_SILENT_RULES.
        * configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Require 1.10c, for our use of
        AM_SILENT_RULES.  Reported by Joel Granados.

        build: update from gnulib, for newer maint.mk and more
        * gnulib: Update submodule to latest.

        build: use gnulib's vc-list-files module
        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add vc-list-files, so we pull
        this file from gnulib.
        * build-aux/vc-list-files: Remove now-outdated file.

2009-04-26  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        build: accommodate maint.mk, now that it's pulled from gnulib
        * dist-check.mk: New file, from coreutils.  Was part of maint.mk.
        * cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Include $(srcdir)/dist-check.mk.
        Remove trailing "  -", to align with new check in maint.mk.
        * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add dist-check.mk.

        build: use gnulib's dirname module
        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add dirname.

        build: make automake's silent-rules option the default
        * configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Remove silent-rules.  Instead,...
        (AM_SILENT_RULES): Use this, with it's undocumented [yes] argument.
        Those who want verbose build output may configure with
        --disable-silent-rules or use "make V=1".

        build: stop using obsolete gnulib modules
        * bootstrap.conf (obsolete_gnulib_modules): Remove.
        (gnulib_modules): Remove use.

        build: use maint.mk from gnulib
        * maint.mk: Remove file.  Now it's generated.
        * .gitignore: Ignore it.
        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add maintainer-makefile.
        * gnulib: Update submodule to latest.

2009-04-11  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        maint: use a git submodule for gnulib
        * .gitmodules: New file, to track gnulib.
        * gnulib: New file, created by running this:
        git submodule add git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib.git gnulib

2009-04-10  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        maint: sync from coreutils
        * maint.mk: Sync from coreutils.
        * bootstrap: Likewise.

2009-04-08  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        build-from-git: depend on automake-1.10b
        * bootstrap.conf (buildreq): Note the automake-1.10b requirement.
        * configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Enable new automake options:
        dist-xz, color-tests, parallel-tests, silent-rules.

2009-04-08  Otavio Salvador  <otavio@ossystems.com.br>

        bootstrap.conf: require automake 1.10 since 1.10a is an alpha version

2009-03-21  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        * maint.mk: merge with latest from coreutils

        maint: indent consistently
        * doc/po4a.mk (updatepo): Replace TAB+8-spaces with two TABs.

2009-03-05  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        * bootstrap: sync from coreutils

        build: enable "make syntax-check" rule to prohibit trailing spaces
        * cfg.mk (local-checks-to-skip): Remove sc_trailing_blank.

        remove all trailing blanks
        ...by running these commands:
        t=$'\t'
        git grep -l "[ $t]\$"|xargs perl -pi -e 's/[ \t]+$//'

        portability: use last_component, not basename
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (read_device_sysfs_file): Use last_component
        from gnulib's basename module, not the less-portable "basename" function.
        (_device_get_partition_range): Likewise.
        Reported by Karel Zak.
        * debug/clearfat/Makefile.am (clearfat_LDADD): Link gnulib *after*
        libparted, not before.
        * partprobe/Makefile.am (partprobe_LDADD): Likewise.
        * parted/Makefile.am (parted_LDADD): Likewise.

2009-03-05  Karel Zak  <kzak@redhat.com>

        test correctly for snprintf failure
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_device_get_partition_range): Correct
        test for failed snprintf.

2009-03-05  Petr Uzel  <petr.uzel@suse.cz>

        gpt: plug a memory leak in gpt_read()
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (gpt_read): Free local variable, "zeros".

2009-03-05  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        update some release-related administrivia
        * .prev-version: Record that the previous release was 1.8.8.1.
        * NEWS: Fill in the date for the previous release.
        * cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Update

        * maint.mk: Sync from coreutils.

        adjust "parted -s dev print" not to emit trailing spaces
        * parted/table.c (table_render_row): Don't append trailing spaces
        or delimiter after final field, and trim any other trailing spaces.
        * tests/t5000-tags.sh: Remove trailing spaces from expected output.

        reword a comment; more formatting changes.
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_disk_sync_part_table): Reword comment
        to use the "active" voice, not "we ...".
        Adjust formatting in new/moved code.

2009-03-05  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        rename all "support" parameters; avoid new compiler warnings
        Change each occurrence like this (which evokes a warning from gcc):
        -       return *supported = MAX_TOTAL_PART;
        to this:
        +       *max_n = MAX_TOTAL_PART;
        +       return true;

        I did it mostly mechanically:

          cd libparted/labels &&
            grep -l 'return .supported = ' *.c|xargs perl -ni \
              -e '$m=/^\treturn \*supported( = .*;)/;' \
              -e 'print $m ? "\t*max_n$1\n\treturn true;\n" : $_'
          git grep -l 'int\* supported'|xargs perl -pi -e 's/int\* supported/int *max_n/'

        That got all but aix.c, which used different spacing: "int *supported",
        which I changed manually.  Then I updated all copyright dates.

2009-03-05  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        gpt: adjust formatting and rename a parameter: s/supported/max_n/.
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (gpt_get_max_supported_partition_count): Rename
        parameter: s/supported/max_n/.  The latter sounds more like a number,
        while "supported" sounds boolean at first.

2009-03-05  Joel Granados Moreno  <jgranado@redhat.com>

        Properly sync partitions with operating system
        * include/parted/disk.h: Add prototypes for new function.
        * libparted/disk.c (ped_disk_get_max_supported_partition_count): New
        function that calls the partition-table-specific function.
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_disk_sync_part_table): To sync the table in
        disk with the kernel, we remove all partitions from the kernel table
        and then add the ones that are in disk.  For this to happen we need to
        calculate the partition-table-type-specific maximum number of
        supported partitions.
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (gpt_get_max_supported_partition_count):
        Read the gpt header from disk and calculate the maximum number of
        partitions it can accommodate.
        * libparted/labels/aix.c (get_max_supported_partition_count):
        New function.
        * libparted/labels/bsd.c: Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/dasd.c: Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/dos.c: Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/dvh.c: Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c: Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/loop.c: Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/mac.c: Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/pc98.c: Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/rdb.c: Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/sun.c: Likewise.

2009-02-20  Joel Granados Moreno  <jgranado@redhat.com>

        dasd: emit a diagnostic upon probe failure
        * libparted/labels/dasd.c (dasd_probe): Inform the user when no dasd
        volumes are present in a device.

2009-02-20  Petr Uzel  <petr.uzel@suse.cz>

        gpt: avoid failed assertion on big-endian systems
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (_parse_header): Compute last_usable_if_grown
        not as an LE64 value but as a CPU-format one, since we're about to
        compare it to another.

2009-02-18  Petr Uzel  <petr.uzel@suse.cz>

        test for the gpt_read failed-assertion fix
        * tests/t0201-gpt.sh: New file.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.

2009-02-18  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        avoid failed assertion when creating a GPT partition table...
        on top of an old one for a larger device

        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (gpt_read): Don't assert that the location
        of the alternate LBA is within the current device.  It will be
        beyond its end when the device it was created for was larger.
        Instead, just return, treating this like any other non-match.

        Here's the reproducer:

          dev=file
          dd     of=$dev if=/dev/null seek=4001
          parted -s $dev mklabel gpt
          dd     of=$dev if=/dev/null seek=4000
          parted -s $dev mklabel gpt

2009-02-17  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        gpt: add a test: printing a partition table must not modify it
        * tests/t0200-gpt.sh: New file.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add the new test.

2009-02-17  Petr Uzel  <petr.uzel@suse.cz>

        gpt: do not automatically "correct" a suspicious GPT partition table
        Previously, when parted was invoked on a disk with a GPT partition table
        and the backup GPT was not in the last sector of the disk, and even if
        the requested operation was just to print the partition table, parted
        would "repair" this automatically. This behavior is undesirable in the
        following situation:

        dm-raid on top of block device. The dm-raid is partitioned with GPT. If
        the dm-raid starts on the first block of underlying device (AFAIK this is
        the case with FastTrack controllers) and the user runs parted on the
        dm-raid, it will identify the physical device as being partitioned with
        GPT and see the backup GPT table not to be in the last sector of the
        physical device and thus move it to this location (which may lead to
        destruction of dm-raid metadata in case they are located at the end of
        physical device).

        This patch modifies parted's behavior to ignore fixing of backup GPT
        position by default.

2009-02-16  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: use "compare", not "$compare"
        * test-lib.sh (compare): Define "compare" as a function, not a variable.
        * tests/t*.sh: use "compare", not "$compare"

2009-02-13  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        don't segfault on a device-mapper device with no target
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_dm_maptype): Don't dereference NULL
        for a device-mapper device with no target.  Use the string
        "NO-TARGET" instead.  Reported by Mike Hwang in
        http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.parted.devel/2432

2009-02-08  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        compile warning-free also with upcoming gcc-4.4
        * libparted/fs/fat/fat.c (_gen_new_serial_number): Use a union
        rather than a warning-provoking cast.  Avoids this gcc warning:
        "dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules"

2009-02-07  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        clearfat: diagnose an invalid device number
        * debug/clearfat/clearfat.c: Include <limits.h> and "xstrtol.h".
        (main): Diagnose an invalid minor device number argument.
        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add xstrtol.

        maint.mk: sync from coreutils

        Revert "don't try to translate 'lib/xstrtol-error.c'"
        This reverts commit 39adc77de255b7df33e1efb93853c7ccfd4c45f5.
        Otherwise, "make syntax-check" fails the sc_po_check test.

2009-02-06  Otavio Salvador  <otavio@ossystems.com.br>

        don't try to translate 'lib/xstrtol-error.c'

        remove ped_(register|unregister)_disk_type since they were deprecated
        ped_(register|unregister)_disk_type were remove since they are
        deprecated since 1.8 releases. The functions
        ped_disk_type_(register|unregister) are the ones to be used.

        move architecture specific code since they're used in a single place
        All architecture headers (linux.h, gnu.h and beos.h) are now
        removed. The required code has beem moved to the C file that required
        it.

2009-01-27  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        avoid bootstrap failure
        * bootstrap.conf: Ensure the gnulib-tests/ exists.
        Reported by Matt Domsch.

2009-01-26  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        better m4 quoting

        * parted/ui.c: Include <config.h> before any other file.

        maint.mk: sync from coreutils

        * po/POTFILES.in: Add lib/xstrtol-error.c.

        _disk_sync_part_table: revise yet again
        This fixes a bug whereby parted could leave the kernel with an
        erroneous view of a partition table.
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_disk_sync_part_table): Per analysis in
        http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.parted.devel/2297/focus=2307.
        Patch suggested by Petr Uzel.

        * bootstrap.conf: sync from coreutils

2009-01-08  Debarshi Ray  <rishi@gnu.org>

        Differentiate between Ext4 and Ext3 file systems.
        Fixes http://parted.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/ticket/188

        * libparted/fs/ext2/ext2_fs.h (EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_HUGE_FILE,
        EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_DIR_NLINK, EXT4_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_EXTENTS,
        EXT4_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_64BIT): New constants.
        * libparted/fs/ext2/interface.c (_ext2_generic_probe): Ext4 file systems
        will have EXT4_FEATURE_* bits set, while Ext3 will not.
        (_ext2_probe, _ext3_probe): Pass 2 and 3 respectively, instead of 0 and 1,
        to _ext2_generic_probe.
        (_ext4_probe): New function.
        (_ext4_ops, _ext4_type): New structures.
        (ped_file_system_ext2_init): Register Ext4 file system type.
        (ped_file_system_ext2_done): Likewise.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add t1700-ext-probe.sh.
        * tests/t1700-ext-probe.sh: New file.

2009-01-08  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        fix a "make syntax-check" failure (update copyright date)
        * doc/parted.texi: Update copyright dates for 2009.

2008-12-23  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        avoid "make install" failure with latest GNU make
        * doc/C/Makefile.am (dist_man8_MANS): Use per-section variable
        names, as recommended by automake.
        (man_MANS): Remove redundant definition.

2008-12-23  Tom "spot" Callaway  <tcallawa@redhat.com>

        sun partition tables: add support for RAID partition types
        This patch enables RAID as a supported partition type on Sun disk
        layouts, commonly found/used on SPARC hardware. It has been tested
        on Aurora SPARC Linux (and Fedora SPARC). I have no idea if Solaris
        supports Software RAID or not...

        Along with the code change, I wrote a test case that checks if the
        RAID partition type is supported on sun disk labels.

        * libparted/labels/sun.c [_SunPartitionData] (is_raid): New member.
        (sun_read): Initialize the ->is_raid member.
        (sun_partition_new): Clear is_raid, like all the other members.
        (sun_partition_duplicate): Propagate the is_raid member.
        (sun_partition_set_system): Make sun_data->type reflect is_raid.
        (sun_partition_set_flag): Also initialize ->is_raid.
        (sun_partition_get_flag): Handle PED_PARTITION_RAID.
        (sun_partition_is_flag_available): Likewise.
        * tests/t4000-sun-raid-type.sh: New file.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add t4000-sun-raid-type.sh.

2008-10-10  Harald Welte  <laforge@gnumonks.org>

        Add support for SD/MMC storage cards on Linux
        This patch adds a new SDMMC device type to represent SD/MMC
        cards.  There is nothing special about handling those devices,
        they are just standard block devices with different names.

        They use device major ID 179 and are usually called
        /dev/mmcblkN (where N is the card number) and the individual partitions
        /dev/mmcblkNpM (where M is the partition number).

        This patch was developed as part of an effort to make debian-installer
        support installation of Debian GNU/Linux on SD/MMC cards, as boot-from-SD
        is becoming a feature seen in mobile x86 devices.

2008-08-20  Petr Uzel  <puzel@foxbat.suse.cz>

        Remove obsolete 'i' from parted optstring (--interactive/-i option is not supported anymore)

2008-08-19  Petr Uzel  <petr.uzel@suse.cz>

        doc: remove obsolete --interactive (-i) option descriptions

2008-08-07  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        update build/test infrastructure from coreutils
        * bootstrap: Update from coreutils.
        * maint.mk: Likewise.

2008-08-07  Soren Hansen  <soren@canonical.com>

        add a test for recently introduced loop-dev-based bug
        This also checks for the current behavior when trying to partition
        a device that may not be partitioned, like loop devices.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add tests/t8000-loop.sh.
        * tests/t8000-loop.sh: New file.  Test for the above fix.

2008-08-07  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        don't exhaust virtual memory for mklabel on a loopback device
        Report and analysis by Soren Hansen <soren@canonical.com>:
        """When ped_disk_get_last_partition_num(disk) fails (which it does if
        disk is a loopback device), it returns -1. This in turn would cause
        _disk_sync_part_table and _dm_reread_part_table to attempt to malloc
        a sizeof(int)*-1, which instantly causes a 'Fatal: Out of memory'."""
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_disk_sync_part_table): Handle the case in
        which ped_disk_get_last_partition_num(disk) fails.
        (_dm_reread_part_table): Likewise.
        This bug was introduced by f6bd20573e3ecfb63f62d88c52a0870fb8851b59.

2008-07-30  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        linux.c: plug a leak
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_disk_sync_part_table): Free local, "rets".
        Reported by Mike Hwang <Mike.Hwang@iqstor.com.cn>.

2008-07-27  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        don't call ped_partition_new with "0" as 2nd arg
        Instead, use an explicit and equivalent PED_PARTITION_NORMAL.
        * libparted/labels/bsd.c (bsd_read):
        * libparted/labels/dasd.c (dasd_read):
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (_parse_part_entry):
        * libparted/labels/loop.c (loop_read):
        * libparted/labels/mac.c (_disk_add_part_map_entry)
        (_rawpart_analyse):
        * libparted/labels/pc98.c (read_table):
        * libparted/labels/rdb.c (amiga_read):
        * libparted/labels/sun.c (sun_read):

2008-07-18  Joel Andres Granados  <jgranado@redhat.com>

        Document the lack of support for ext3 filesystems.
        - doc/C/parted.8: Add a message in the KNOWN ISSUES section that
          describes the lack of support for ext3.  Take out some references
          that were contained in the man page.
        - doc/parted.texi: Do the same as above to the info page.

2008-07-08  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        test for the s/PED_MAX/PED_MIN/ partition-number fix
        * tests/t4200-partprobe.sh: New file.  Test for today's fix.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add t4200-partprobe.sh.
        (init.sh): Now that we test partprobe,
        add $(abs_top_builddir)/partprobe to PATH.
        * tests/test-lib.sh: Honor new dvhtool_required_ variable.
        Based on a reproducer from Petr Uzel.

        fix computation of largest partition number
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_disk_sync_part_table): s/PED_MAX/PED_MIN/
        (_dm_reread_part_table): Likewise.
        Patch by Petr Uzel (tiny change).
        Details in http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.parted.devel/2213

2008-07-07  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        fix to allow compilation with gcc's -fno-common option
        * libparted/fs/fat/count.h (fat16): Remove bogus (unused)
        globally-scoped variable declaration.

        * maint.mk: update from coreutils

        * parted/parted.c (options): Remove redundant "const" in declaration.

2008-06-26  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        * libparted/fs/fat/table.c: Remove a few trailing blanks.

        avoid a warning from gcc -Wshadow
        * libparted/fs/fat/table.c (fat_table_duplicate): Rename local
        s/dup/dup_ft/ to avoid shadowing the function.

2008-06-24  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        adjust for const-correctness
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_blkpg_add_partition): Make the "part"
        parameter "const".
        (_disk_sync_part_table): Make local "part" const.

        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_disk_sync_part_table): Plug an obvious leak.

        * configure.ac: Remove useless 'exit's after AC_MSG_ERROR.

2008-06-20  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        tests: avoid test failure due to added newline in diagnostic
        * tests/t3000-constraints.sh: Adapt to changed output syntax.

        tests: factor out duplication
        * tests/t7000-scripting.sh: Use a loop rather than
        two copies of each of 7 tests.

        tests: use consistent output normalization code
        * tests/t7000-scripting.sh: same as in e.g., t3000-constraints.sh.
        Use the same name for all output files, "out", not "out1".

        tests: avoid failure when run as non-root
        * tests/t7000-scripting.sh: and avoid some duplication

2008-06-20  Joel Andres Granados  <jgranado@redhat.com>

        Fix the script mode for mkpart and mkpartfs.
        To: parted-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org
        Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:37:41 +0200
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        In scripting mode, parted used to ask the user for confirmation
        when the values to be used where not the ones specified by the user.
        * parted/parted.c (do_mkpart, do_mkpartfs): if opt_script_mode is.
          set fail, if it's not, warn and ask for intervention.
        * tests/Makefile.am : include the new test in the TEST list.
        * tests/t7000-scripting.sh : Distribute new test case.

2008-06-10  Guido Guenther  <agx@sigxcpu.org>

        move new dmtype member from PedDevice to LinuxSpecific,
        since this is a Linux-only feature.
        * include/parted/device.h (struct _PedDevice) [dmtype]: Remove member.
        * include/parted/linux.h (struct _LinuxSpecific) [dmtype]: Add member.
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_dm_maptype, linux_new, linux_destroy): Update uses.

2008-06-08  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        adjust tests here (libparted/tests/), as done for tests/
        * libparted/tests/Makefile.am (init.sh): Don't emit code to
        source test-lib.sh.
        * libparted/tests/t1000-label.sh: Source test-lib.sh, not init.sh.
        * libparted/tests/t2000-disk.sh: Likewise.

        fix compile/link problems in libparted/tests
        Since I didn't have check-devel installed where I'd been testing,
        nothing was built in libparted/tests/.
        * libparted/tests/label.c (main): Add argc and argv declarations.
        * libparted/tests/disk.c (main): Likewise.
        Reported by Frodo Baggins <frodo.drogo@gmail.com>.
        * libparted/tests/Makefile.am (LDADD, AM_CPPFLAGS): Define, to compile
        and link against gnulib-provided functions.
        (label_CFLAGS, label_LDADD, disk_LDADD, etc.): Adjust.
        (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Define, to propagate top_srcdir to test scripts.

2008-06-06  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        skip device-mapper test if support is not enabled
        * configure.ac: Revamp test; also set ENABLE_DEVICE_MAPPER shell var.
        * tests/Makefile.am (ENABLE_DEVICE_MAPPER): Propagate to tests.
        * tests/t6000-dm.sh: Skip all tests w/o device-mapper support.

        device mapper clean-up: remove #ifdefs, plug a leak
        * libparted/arch/linux.c: Remove some #ifdef ENABLE_DEVICE_MAPPER
        directives.
        * include/parted/device.h (struct _PedDevice) [dmtype]: Likewise.
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (linux_new): Plug a leak.

        * tests/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add lvm-utils.sh.

        reflect renaming: dm-utils.sh -> lvm-utils.sh
        * tests/test-lib.sh: s/dm-utils.sh/lvm-utils.sh/
        * tests/dm-utils.sh: Rename this...
        * tests/lvm-utils.sh: ...to this.

        protect against bogus absolute srcdir name
        * test-lib.sh: add quotes to protect against $abs_top_srcdir containing
        shell meta-characters

        * test-lib.sh: Guard against bogus $device_mapper_required value in env.

        sync from lvm-utils.sh

        source test-lib.sh (not init.sh) from each test
        * tests/test-lib.sh: Source init.sh early.
        Use $test_dir_rand_, as done in LVM test framework.
        Source lvm-utils.sh _after_ defining test_dir_rand_.
        * tests/Makefile.am (init.sh): Don't emit code to source test-lib.sh,
        since each test now sources that file directly.
        * tests/t0000-basic.sh: Source test-lib.sh, not init.sh.
        Default srcdir=. in each test, so it may be run independently of "make".
        * tests/t0100-print.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/t1000-mkpartfs.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/t1100-busy-label.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/t1500-small-ext2.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/t2000-mkfs.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/t2100-mkswap.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/t2200-dos-label-recog.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/t3000-constraints.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/t3100-resize-ext2-partion.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/t4100-dvh-partition-limits.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/t4100-msdos-partition-limits.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/t5000-tags.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/t6000-dm.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Pass srcdir to tests.

        * dm-utils: Restore uses of $test_dir_rand_.

        * libparted/arch/linux.c (linux_new): Initialize new member.

        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_dm_maptype): Add space after "if".

2008-06-06  Guido Günther  <agx@sigxcpu.org>

        honor DM_DEV_DIR envvar
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_dm_maptype): Make libparted handle $DM_DEV_DIR
        the same way dmsetup does.

        add basic device mapper tests
        * tests/dm-utils.sh: New file.  Copied from lvm's tests/lvm-utils.sh.
        * tests/t6000-dm.sh: New file.
        * tests/test-lib.sh: FIXME
        * tests/Makefile.am: FIXME

2008-06-06  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        avoid useless initialization

2008-06-05  Guido Guenther  <agx@sigxcpu.org>

        linux device-mapper map type detection
        detect the type of the device map and add it to the displayed type
        information

2008-06-05  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        use gnulib's mktempd module/script
        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add mktempd.
        * tests/test-lib.sh: Use build-aux/mktempd, not mkdtemp.
        * tests/mkdtemp: Remove file.
        * tests/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Remove mkdtemp.

        use gnulib's progname module
        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add progname.
        * debug/clearfat/clearfat.c: Include "progname.h".
        (main): Call set_program_name rather than setting program_name.
        * parted/parted.c: Likewise.
        * partprobe/partprobe.c: Likewise.
        * libparted/tests/disk.c: Include "progname.h" and call
        set_program_name even though program_name isn't used, yet.
        * libparted/tests/label.c: Likewise.

        * maint.mk: Merge from coreutils.

2008-05-31  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        gpt_write: fix a write-uninitialized error
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (gpt_partition_new):
          ==32570== Syscall param write(buf) points to uninitialised byte(s)
          ==32570==    at 0x36CF8D6540: __write_nocancel (in /lib64/libc-2.8.so)
          ==32570==    by 0x443D29: linux_write (linux.c:1642)
          ==32570==    by 0x414E4E: ped_device_write (device.c:370)
          ==32570==    by 0x4404CE: gpt_write (gpt.c:1091)
          ==32570==    by 0x418F16: ped_disk_commit_to_dev (disk.c:486)
          ==32570==    by 0x418F5C: ped_disk_commit (disk.c:509)
          ==32570==    by 0x40BAD6: do_mkpartfs (parted.c:981)
          ==32570==    by 0x40A035: command_run (command.c:139)
          ==32570==    by 0x412150: non_interactive_mode (ui.c:1540)
          ==32570==    by 0x40EE83: main (parted.c:2487)
          ==32570==  Address 0x501b63a is 58 bytes inside a block of size 16,384 alloc'd
          ==32570==    at 0x4A04FC0: memalign (vg_replace_malloc.c:460)
          ==32570==    by 0x4A0507A: posix_memalign (vg_replace_malloc.c:569)
          ==32570==    by 0x443CED: linux_write (linux.c:1637)
          ==32570==    by 0x414E4E: ped_device_write (device.c:370)
          ==32570==    by 0x4404CE: gpt_write (gpt.c:1091)
          ==32570==    by 0x418F16: ped_disk_commit_to_dev (disk.c:486)
          ==32570==    by 0x418F5C: ped_disk_commit (disk.c:509)
          ==32570==    by 0x40BAD6: do_mkpartfs (parted.c:981)
          ==32570==    by 0x40A035: command_run (command.c:139)
          ==32570==    by 0x412150: non_interactive_mode (ui.c:1540)
          ==32570==    by 0x40EE83: main (parted.c:2487)

          reproduce with this:
          dev=f
          dd if=/dev/null of=$dev bs=1 seek=30M 2>/dev/null
          ./parted -s $dev mklabel gpt
          valgrind ./parted -s $dev mkpartfs primary ext2 0 16795000B

2008-05-31  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        plug leaks in do_print
        * parted/parted.c (do_print):
        25 bytes in 8 blocks are definitely lost...
           at 0x4A0739E: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:207)
           by 0x416E67: ped_malloc (libparted.c:234)
           by 0x41751F: ped_strdup (unit.c:179)
           by 0x417778: ped_unit_format_custom_byte (unit.c:220)
           by 0x417A90: ped_unit_format (unit.c:297)
           by 0x40CD85: do_print (parted.c:1517)
           by 0x40A035: command_run (command.c:139)
           by 0x41210C: non_interactive_mode (ui.c:1540)
           by 0x40EE41: main (parted.c:2482)

        10 bytes in 4 blocks are definitely lost...
           at 0x4A0739E: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:207)
           by 0x416E9B: ped_malloc (libparted.c:234)
           by 0x417553: ped_strdup (unit.c:179)
           by 0x4177AC: ped_unit_format_custom_byte (unit.c:220)
           by 0x417AC4: ped_unit_format (unit.c:297)
           by 0x40CE34: do_print (parted.c:1527)
           by 0x40A035: command_run (command.c:139)
           by 0x412140: non_interactive_mode (ui.c:1540)
           by 0x40EE75: main (parted.c:2485)

2008-05-31  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        plug two more leaks in gpt_write
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (gpt_write):
        1,024 bytes in 2 blocks are definitely lost...
           at 0x4A0739E: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:207)
           by 0x416F1B: ped_malloc (libparted.c:270)
           by 0x43E967: pth_get_raw (gpt.c:334)
           by 0x44039D: gpt_write (gpt.c:1067)
           by 0x418F9A: ped_disk_commit_to_dev (disk.c:486)
           by 0x418FE0: ped_disk_commit (disk.c:509)
           by 0x40AF7A: do_mklabel (parted.c:622)
           by 0x40A055: command_run (command.c:139)
           by 0x4121A4: non_interactive_mode (ui.c:1540)

        plug a blatant leak in gpt_write
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (gpt_write):
        1,536 bytes in 3 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 9 of 11
           at 0x4A0739E: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:207)
           by 0x416F1B: ped_malloc (libparted.c:270)
           by 0x44021F: gpt_write (gpt.c:1036)
           by 0x418F9A: ped_disk_commit_to_dev (disk.c:486)
           by 0x418FE0: ped_disk_commit (disk.c:509)
           by 0x40AF7A: do_mklabel (parted.c:622)
           by 0x40A055: command_run (command.c:139)
           by 0x4121A4: non_interactive_mode (ui.c:1540)
           by 0x40EED8: main (parted.c:2499)

        plug leaks in gpt_write
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (gpt_write):
        6,674 bytes in 11 blocks are definitely lost...
          at 0x4A0739E: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:207)
          by 0x416F1B: ped_malloc (libparted.c:270)
          by 0x43E76D: pth_new (gpt.c:289)
          by 0x43E7E2: pth_new_zeroed (gpt.c:298)
          by 0x43FF61: _generate_header (gpt.c:970)
          by 0x440434: gpt_write (gpt.c:1074)
          by 0x418F9A: ped_disk_commit_to_dev (disk.c:486)
          by 0x418FE0: ped_disk_commit (disk.c:509)
          by 0x40BB35: do_mkpartfs (parted.c:990)

        plug a leak in gpt_read
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c (gpt_read):
        7,195 bytes in 13 blocks are definitely lost...
           at 0x4A0739E: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:207)
           by 0x416F1B: ped_malloc (libparted.c:270)
           by 0x43E759: pth_new (gpt.c:287)
           by 0x43E83C: pth_new_from_raw (gpt.c:310)
           by 0x43F329: _read_header (gpt.c:627)
           by 0x43FB31: gpt_read (gpt.c:826)
           by 0x41882B: ped_disk_new (disk.c:210)
           by 0x40B773: do_mkpartfs (parted.c:884)
           by 0x40A055: command_run (command.c:139)

2008-05-30  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        plug leak in ped_device_get_constraint
        496 (208 direct, 288 indirect) bytes in 5 blocks are definitely lost...
           at 0x4A0739E: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:207)
           by 0x416EDF: ped_malloc (libparted.c:270)
           by 0x41CB40: ped_geometry_new (geom.c:79)
           by 0x415167: ped_device_get_constraint (device.c:438)
           by 0x40B928: do_mkpartfs (parted.c:927)
           by 0x40A055: command_run (command.c:139)
           by 0x41217C: non_interactive_mode (ui.c:1540)
           by 0x40EEB1: main (parted.c:2497)

2008-05-30  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        plug leaks in parted.c
        432 (144 direct, 288 indirect) bytes in 3 blocks are definitely lost...
           at 0x4A0739E: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:207)
           by 0x416EF3: ped_malloc (libparted.c:270)
           by 0x41D9D2: ped_constraint_new (constraint.c:100)
           by 0x4151A4: ped_device_get_constraint (device.c:439)
           by 0x40B928: do_mkpartfs (parted.c:927)
           by 0x40A055: command_run (command.c:139)
           by 0x41217C: non_interactive_mode (ui.c:1540)
           by 0x40EEB1: main (parted.c:2497)

        And another:

        * parted/parted.c (do_mkpartfs): Here's one of the signatures:
        288 (96 direct, 192 indirect) bytes in 2 blocks are definitely lost...
           at 0x4A0739E: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:207)
           by 0x416EF3: ped_malloc (libparted.c:270)
           by 0x41D9D2: ped_constraint_new (constraint.c:100)
           by 0x41DE2C: ped_constraint_intersect (constraint.c:232)
           by 0x40B971: do_mkpartfs (parted.c:930)
           by 0x40A055: command_run (command.c:139)
           by 0x41217C: non_interactive_mode (ui.c:1540)
           by 0x40EEB1: main (parted.c:2497)

        * parted/parted.c (do_mkpart): Likewise for this function,
        since do_mkpart is nearly identical to do_mkpartfs.

2008-05-29  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        plug a leak in ped_device_get_constraint
        * libparted/device.c (ped_device_get_constraint):
        512 (224 direct, 288 indirect) bytes in 6 blocks are definitely lost...
          malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:207)
          ped_malloc (libparted.c:270)
          ped_alignment_new (natmath.c:153)
          ped_device_get_constraint (device.c:432)
          do_mkpartfs (parted.c:927)
          command_run (command.c:139)
          non_interactive_mode (ui.c:1540)
          main (parted.c:2497)

2008-05-29  Colin Watson  <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>

        Avoid "comparison between signed and unsigned" warning from gcc.
        * libparted/fs/fat/traverse.c (fat_dir_entry_get_name): Change
        type of index from int to size_t.

2008-05-29  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        remove more useless "if" tests before free
        * libparted/arch/gnu.c (gnu_sync):
        * libparted/cs/natmath.c (ped_alignment_destroy):
        * libparted/exception.c (ped_exception_catch):
        * libparted/labels/dos.c (msdos_partition_destroy):
        * parted/parted.c (do_mkpart, do_mkpartfs):

        Use free, not ped_free.
        * libparted/libparted.c (ped_free): Remove function.
        [DEBUG] (_check_dodgy_pointer): Remove function.
        Global substitution:
        perl -pi -e 's/\bped_free\b/free/g' $(lid -knone ped_free)

        * maint.mk: Update from coreutils.

        test for improved DOS-partition-table recognition
        * tests/t2200-dos-label-recog.sh: New file.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add t2200-dos-label-recog.sh.

2008-05-29  Colin Watson  <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>

        bug fix: improve DOS partition table recognition
        * libparted/labels/dos.c (msdos_probe): Make Parted's partition-table
        recognition code use the same technique that is used by the Linux
        kernel and by util-linux's fdisk.  I.e., accept it whenever all four
        boot indicators are 0 or 0x80, rather than using the FAT file system-
        recognizing heuristic.
        More analysis here:
          http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.parted.devel/2142/focus=2154
        Reported by David Balažic here:
          https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/parted/+bug/232175
          http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.parted.devel/2142

2008-05-29  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        avoid const-related compiler warnings
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (init_dasd, init_generic): Likewise.
        * libparted/exception.c (type_strings, option_strings): Likewise.
        (ped_exception_get_type_string, ped_exception_get_option_string):
        * libparted/fs/ext2/ext2_block_relocator.c (ext2_block_relocator_flush):
        * libparted/fs/ext2/ext2_mkfs.c (_set_dirent): Likewise.
        * libparted/fs/fat/resize.c (ask_type): Likewise.
        * libparted/fs/fat/traverse.c (fat_traverse_begin): Likewise.
        * libparted/fs/fat/traverse.h (buffer_size): Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/mac.c (_rawpart_cmp_type, _rawpart_cmp_name):
        (_rawpart_is_partition_map, _rawpart_is_boot, _rawpart_is_driver):
        (_rawpart_has_driver): Likewise.
        * parted/parted.c (options, options_help, number_msg): Likewise.
        (label_type_msg_start, flag_msg_start, unit_msg_start): Likewise.
        (part_type_msg, fs_type_msg_start, start_end_msg, state_msg): Likewise.
        (device_msg, name_msg, resize_msg_start, copyright_msg, do_print):
        * parted/ui.c (prog_name, banner_msg, usage_msg, bug_msg): Likewise.
        (screen_width): Likewise.
        * parted/ui.h (prog_name): Likewise.

2008-05-06  Otavio Salvador  <otavio@ossystems.com.br>

        properly test for __s390__ and __s390x__ macros to disable O_DIRECT on that

2008-04-30  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        Remove useless "if" tests before free.
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_dm_add_partition): Remove useless test.
        * libparted/labels/fdasd.c (fdasd_cleanup): Likewise.
        * m4/o-direct.m4 (parted_FIND_USABLE_TEST_DIR): Likewise.
        * parted/table.c (table_destroy): Likewise.

        Pass NEWS-checking part of "make syntax-check".
        * NEWS: Tweak format so it passes.
        * cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Update MD5 checksum.

        Exempt a build-related script from the copyright check.
        * .x-sc_GPL_version: New file.
        * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add .x-sc_GPL_version.

        Turn off strcmp/STREQ check.
        * cfg.mk (local-checks-to-skip): Add sc_prohibit_strcmp.

        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add useless-if-before-free.

        * doc/parted.texi: Update copyright dates.

        more updates from gnulib and coreutils
        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add gitlog-to-changelog.
        * .gitignore: Add .tarball-version
        * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add .version and .prev-version.
        (dist-hook): Update rule.
        (gen-ChangeLog): New rule.
        * maint.mk: Rename from Makefile.maint and update from coreutils.
        * cfg.mk: Rename from Makefile.cfg and update from coreutils.

        use gnulib's gnumakefile module
        * GNUmakefile: Remove from version control.
        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add gnumakefile.
        * .gitignore: Add GNUmakefile

2008-04-29  Matt Davis  <mattdavis9@gmail.com>

        Corrected a few memory leaks from unallocated ped_unit_format calls.
        Deallocated memory in do_print() allocated by ped_unit_format calls.

        Corrected memory leak when displaying partition flags.
        Deallocated memory allocated by partition_print_flags()

2008-04-26  Matt Davis  <mattdavis9@gmail.com>

        Corrected a small memory leak when displaying partition information
        Deallocated a very small memory allocation that occurs in a for loop.
        This occurred during output of partition numbers.

2008-04-26  Otavio Salvador  <otavio@ossystems.com.br>

        do not loop in case message exception has no message
        The exception handler was looping when the exception had no message.

2008-04-24  Otavio Salvador  <otavio@ossystems.com.br>

        fix memory leak in exception handler
        The exception handler wasn't freeing the memory when the allocated
        space wasn't enough to store the error message thus leaving unmanaged
        memory around.

2008-04-12  Robert Millan  <rmh@aybabtu.com>

        Add support for GRUB / BIOS partition in GPT.

2008-04-07  Bastian Blank  <waldi@waldi.track.rz.uni-augsburg.de>

        Fix syntax error.

        Use host_cpu for s390 check.

2008-03-30  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        Fix a typo: s/to defragmenting/to defragment/, Remove trailing blanks.

2008-02-04  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        Don't write into line[-1] when line starts with a NUL byte.
        * parted/ui.c (_readline): Check strlen first.

        dvh.c (dvh_partition_set_name): Include partition name in diagnostic.

        Enforce inherent limitations of dos and dvh partition table formats.
        * libparted/disk.c (_check_partition): Enforce the 32-bit limitation
        on a partition's starting sector number and length (in sectors).
        With the usual 512-byte sector size, this limits the maximum
        partition size to just under 2TB.
        (_partition_max_start, _partition_max_len): New functions.
        (_check_partition): Use them.
        * tests/t4100-msdos-partition-limits.sh: New file.  Test vs. msdos.
        * tests/t4100-dvh-partition-limits.sh: New file.  Test vs. dvh.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add t4100-msdos-partition-limits.sh
        and t4100-dvh-partition-limits.sh.

2008-02-02  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        mkpart: Don't require a DVH partition name if it's guaranteed to fail.
        The mkpart command has an undocumented feature whereby it prompts for
        (interactive) or requires (-s) a partition name, *regardless* of whether
        it already knows the partition type (any thing but 'logical') is
        incompatible with a name.

        At first I was pissed and simply #if-0'd the offending code.
        But in case someone is actually relying on it, I've relented, and
        merely remove the prompt/requirement when the partition table type
        is "dvh" and the type of the partition in question is not "logical".

        * parted/parted.c (do_mkpart):

2008-01-14  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        Avoid new error detected by very latest gcc.
        * libparted/fs/fat/traverse.c (fat_dir_entry_get_name): Don't reference
        ->extension[3] via a pointer into the prior ->name[8] struct member.
        gcc detected the reference beyond end of name[8].
        Declare first parameter to be "const".
        * libparted/fs/fat/traverse.c: Update prototype.

        #ifdef function definitions to match uses, to avoid compiler warnings.
        * parted/ui.c (mask_signal, s_sigint_handler, s_sigsegv_handler)
        (s_sigfpe_handler):

        Change two "extern inline" functions to "static inline".
        * include/parted/natmath.h (ped_div_round_up): This makes
        it compilable with bleeding-edge gcc.
        (ped_div_round_to_nearest): Likewise.
        * libparted/cs/natmath.c (ped_div_round_up, ped_div_round_to_nearest):
        Remove definitions.

2007-12-18  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        Make inter-release --version output more useful.
        Now, each unofficial build has a version "number" like 1.8.8.1.19-58dd,
        which indicates that it is built using the 19th change set
        (in _some_ repository) following the "v1.8.8.1" tag, and that 58dd
        is a prefix of the commit SHA1.
        * configure.ac: Run it to set the version.
        (PED_MAJOR_VERSION): Derive from $PACKAGE_VERSION.
        (PED_MINOR_VERSION): Likewise.
        (PED_MICRO_VERSION): Likewise.
        Remove the test that would ensure $PACKAGE_VERSION != $PED_VERSION,
        now that the latter is derived from the former.
        * Makefile.am (dist-hook): Arrange so that .version appears only
        in distribution tarballs, never in a checked-out repository.
        * .gitignore: Add .version here, too.  Just in case.
        * lib/.gitignore: Remove now-generated (by bootstrap) file.
        * build-aux/.gitignore: Likewise.

        Ensure that $(VERSION) is up to date for dist-related targets.
        * GNUmakefile: Arrange to rerun autoconf, if the version reported by
        git-version-gen doesn't match $(VERSION), but only for dist targets.

2007-12-18  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        doc/pt_BR/partprobe.8.pt_BR.po: Remove trailing space in generated file.

        Distribute new file: architecture.h.
        libparted/Makefile.am (libparted_la_SOURCES): Add architecture.h.

        libparted/architecture.c: Include <config.h>.

2007-12-17  David Cantrell  <dcantrell@redhat.com>

        Fix up the ChangeLog generation a bit.
        We can just take the output of git-log.

2007-12-17  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

        Perform ChangeLog-creation here, rather than in bootstrap,
        so that the next merge will be less likely to clobber this parted-specific bit.

        Mention that we should be able to build with -fno-common.

        * bootstrap: Update from Coreutils, adapting to changes in gnulib.
        Among them: now gnulib uses git for version control.

        * libparted/tests/disk.c (START_TEST): Remove decl of unused local.

2007-11-07  David Cantrell  <dcantrell@redhat.com>

        Add flags for BSD disklabels (needed for Linux on Alpha)
        Patch from Sergey Tikhonov from the AlphaCore project.

2007-11-06  David Cantrell  <dcantrell@redhat.com>

        Add KNOWN ISSUES section
        Add a KNOWN ISSUES section explaining that ext3 resizing does not work
        and that you should use resize2fs.

        Always define PED_DEVICE_DM
        Regardless of compile time options, always define PED_DEVICE_DM.

        Add 'xvd' to the transports array in do_print
        For the parted print command, add 'xvd' to the transports array so there is
        a matching string to display when we print a line for Xen virtual block
        device.

2007-11-03  Otavio Salvador  <otavio@ossystems.com.br>

        Move PedArchitecture and ped_set_architecture to private
        Code that works with libparted isn't suppose to need to change the
        architecture where it's running and then doesn't make sense to export
        it.

        Two new files has been create (libparted/architecture.[hc]) that has
        the PedArchitecture structure and the ped_set_architecture
        implementation.  All changes that were need to get it suported on all
        currently available architectures has been done too.

2007-11-02  Otavio Salvador  <otavio@ossystems.com.br>

        parted/geom.h: move includes to after type definition to avoids dependency

        parted/device.h: move includes to after type definition to avoids dependency

        parted/filesys.h doesn't use stdio.h, parted/disk.h and parted/exception.h

        parted/constraint.h needs parted/geom.h since it uses PedGeometry

        parted/natmath.h needs parted/device.h since it uses PedSector

        libparted/cs/natmath.c: remove inline since it's not supported by GNU99 standard

        parted/device.h needs to include parted/constraint.h since it uses PedConstraint

2007-11-02  Debarshi Ray  <rishi@gnu.org>

        Removing unnecessary type-casts and eerie comments.

2007-10-29  Mark Neyhart  <mark_n@lfd008.localdomain>

        Added information to message about ext2 incompatible features.
        Modifed the message about incompatible ext2 features installed to include a
        list of compatible features and to recommend the usage of tune2fs or
        debugfs to remove features which are not compatible.

2007-08-31  Otavio Salvador  <otavio@ossystems.com.br>

        Really duplicate the disk instead of readd every partition
        To avoid possible differences between the original disk layout and the
        duplicated one, a raw copy is done. Has been identified a case[1]
        where extended partitions had their positions changed due this.

         1. http://bugs.debian.org/294520

        The recipe[2] to reproduce the problem, on the provided URI, has been
        used to produced a test and hence be sure it's not forgotten anymore.

         2. http://bugs.debian.org/294520#34

        The fix has been produced by Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>

2007-08-16  Benno Schulenberg  <bensberg@justemail.net>

        Set partprobe's text domain.
        * partprobe/partprobe.c (main): Set textdomain.

2007-08-14  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        Fix mkpart linux-swap bug: would use 0x83 rather than 0x82
        * libparted/labels/bsd.c (bsd_partition_set_system): Include "misc.h".
        Use is_linux_swap to test whether the type string matches.
        * libparted/labels/dasd.c (dasd_read, dasd_partition_set_system): Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/dos.c (msdos_partition_set_system): Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/mac.c (mac_partition_set_system): Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/rdb.c (amiga_partition_set_system): Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/sun.c (sun_partition_set_system): Likewise.
        Based on a patch by Kenneth MacDonald, from
        <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2007-07/msg00012.html>.
        * libparted/labels/misc.h (is_linux_swap): New function/file.
        * libparted/labels/Makefile.am (liblabels_la_SOURCES): Add misc.h.
        * tests/t2100-mkswap.sh: New file, test for the above fix.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add t2100-mkswap.sh.

2007-08-14  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        Don't try to avoid "free (x)" when x is NULL.
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (linux_read):
        Part of http://git.debian.org/?p=parted/parted.git;a=commitdiff;h=080d3e7078
        changed this:

          free(diobuf);

        to this:

          if (diobuf)
              free(diobuf);

        Yet, free doesn't have any problem with NULL.
        Some very old (non-POSIX) implementations did (like SunOS4),
        but even for them, gnulib's lib/free.c protects us.

2007-08-14  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        Avoid test failure with dash's builtin printf. * tests/t0100-print.sh (msdos_magic): Use more-portable octal escapes, not hexadecimal ones.

2007-08-09  David Cantrell  <dcantrel@mortise.boston.redhat.com>

        Sanity check for dev, safety checks on diobuf.
        Make sure diobuf is NULL before we begin and make sure it isn't NULL when
        we try to free it.  Throw an exception if dev is NULL and we enter this
        function.
        (cherry picked from commit be2ace6e8d381fb836647234ac65d34a4a547e31)

        Revert "History with undo and redo capabilities."
        This reverts commit 3bb8494e1ed5af0a48ad0211c3219e653167854f.

2007-08-08  David Cantrell  <dcantrel@mortise.boston.redhat.com>

        History with undo and redo capabilities.
        Author: Matt Davis <mattdavis@gmail.com>

        Here is a working version of the history with undo/redo capabilities.  The
        idea here was based on a talk with Otavio Salvador who mentioned the concepts
        from Vanni Brutto.  The idea being to capture all changes and only apply them
        all at once.  This protects the user from performing an unwanted change.  What
        I did was capture all disk modifications that are committed to disk, and put
        them in a list.  The history manager allows the list to be traversed linearly,
        so that a change can be undone, viewed in parted (print command), or reapplied
        again.  Nothing actually happens to the physical disk until the 'save' command
        is issued.

        Jim Meyering suggested that the functionality might be useful to libparted
        thus most of the functionality has been moved there.  The stdout displays
        (printf) are placed in parted.c as the library should not do any output
        printing on its own.

        Three commands were added:
        1) Undo : Undoes a disk modification
        2) Redo : Redoes the most recent 'undone' modification
        3) Save : Actually commits the list of non-undone modifications to disk

        I feel a bit more testing needs to be done, but I am happy with the results
        right now.

2007-08-01  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        Revert "If we cannot create a new PedDisk for the device we're looking at, return NULL rather than the device path." The reverted change causes almost all tests to fail.
        This reverts commit a6f86144c0b5fd07c462e256bc7b54095c7b8e7a.

        Revert "Removed unused label (compiler warning)." The label *is* used.
        This reverts commit f4bc90ac22de605ad927d2d85ba468a16bf55ae7.

2007-07-31  David Cantrell  <dcantrel@mortise.boston.redhat.com>

        Probe for all device-mapper devices.
        Add _dm_probe_all() from Debian and patch linux_probe_all() to probe for
        device-mapper devices after probing for standard devices.
        (cherry picked from commit 609b7ae6d274e479027bb46c4bd10227cd921803)

        Add the PED_DEVICE_XVD device type for Xen virtual block devices. (cherry picked from commit af4bea2ac854343609f3e6688bedd727ddf76ae6)

        Detect Xen virtual block devices and identify them as such. (cherry picked from commit 64861efcaae95f605614d5e4c6d9c35c5d5712d7)

        If we cannot create a new PedDisk for the device we're looking at, return NULL rather than the device path. (cherry picked from commit 865ea3d3f2eb7918b64a00825dfa44e05651e2ad)

        When reading the DASD disk label, look at the partition flags as well as what is on the actual partition using ped_file_system_probe().  This avoids flags being set for partitions when they shouldn't be. (cherry picked from commit dfafc45a3775cc92d3cd89c9b35926cab23db512)

        Removed unused label (compiler warning). (cherry picked from commit b43bda3134059cdacb13e1a4d0a0bee8a543cfb0)

2007-07-26  Otavio Salvador  <otavio@ossystems.com.br>

        Fix bootstrap script to support the new translationproject html files

2007-07-23  David Cantrell  <dcantrel@mortise.boston.redhat.com>

        Updated GPL license boilerplate.

        Updated COPYING file to the GNU General Public License version 3.  Updated boilerplate GPL text to reference version 3 of the license.

2007-07-10  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        Flip the switch (expected-failure -> expected-success) in tests/t3100- resize-ext2-partion.sh, now that this bug is fixed.

2007-07-10  Flavio Leitner  <flavio.leitner@gmail.com>

        Fix block state checking for realocated blocks
        A busy block should be realocated and it's correct in
        ext2_block_relocator_mark(), but not in ext2_metadata_push().

2007-07-10  Flavio Leitner  <flavio.leitner@gmail.com>

        Fix block number used when checking for state
        Hi there,

        The ext2_bread() returns a descriptor containing a
        pointer ->data representing the contents of 1 block.

        In ext2_block_relocate_grow(), it reads the block bitmap from
        a group descriptor representing a range of blocks:
           bh = ext2_bread(fs, EXT2_GROUP_BLOCK_BITMAP(fs->gd[i]));

        Then it does:
           k = EXT2_GROUP_INODE_TABLE(fs->gd[i]) + fs->inodeblocks + j;
        k is the absolute block number and then checks the state doing:
        if (bh->data[k>>3] & _bitmap[k&7])

        The k should be the offset inside of group descriptor and not
        the absolute block number. Example:
        . Block bitmap represents 512 blocks
        . Block absolute number is 1023.

        GrpDesc = Block absolute number / block bitmap size = 1
        bh = ext2_bread(fs, EXT2_GROUP_BLOCK_BITMAP(fs->gd[GrpDesc]))
        bh->data[] contains a bitmap of 512 blocks from 512-1024
        relative = absolute block number % block bitmap size
        relative = 1023/512 = 511

        The block state is in bitmap bh->data[relative>>3] & ...

2007-07-10  Michael Brennan  <brennan.brisad@gmail.com>

        Fix syntax error and LIBS problem in configure.ac
        Make sure LIBS doesn't contain libraries that will prevent
        successful compilations after libreadline has been tested.
        A trailing comma generated a syntax error in the configure script.

2007-07-10  Matthew S. Harris  <mharris312@gmail.com>

        More correct handling of the HeaderSize field in GPT labels
        - Use the HeaderSize field value when determining how many bytes to
        compute the CRC over.

        - Don't abort if the HeaderSize field value is bigger than our struct,
        since more fields may be defined in the future.

2007-07-06  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        Don't let the automatically-generated ChangeLog cause "make dist" failure. * Makefile.cfg (local-checks-to-skip): Add sc_changelog.

        Let "make distcheck" pass once again. * parted/strlist.c (str_list_alloc): Remove unnecessary cast of xmalloc return value.

2007-07-06  Michael Brennan  <brennan.brisad@gmail.com>

        Fix a problem where a partial read would not be handled correctly; also change the status variable to ssize_t.

2007-07-03  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        Don't include config.h from internal headers. This avoids redefinition errors (on the new symbol, __STDC_LIMIT_MACROS_TRIGGER) when config.h is included twice.
        Bob Proulx reported the buildbot failures: http://buildbot.proulx.com:9001/

2007-06-22  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        Avoid test failure on Linux-2.6.8 due to too small underlying file. Overwrite the label creating a 4KB file; 1KB was too small and would trigger the failure.  Reported by Bob Proulx.

        Work around test failures caused by inadequate libreadline.
        * configure.ac: Reject an inadequate libreadline5.0.
        * parted/ui.c (_readline) [!HAVE_LIBREADLINE]: Echo each
        just-read line, to be consistent with libreadline5.2.

        Avoid mklabel test failure with very small file on Linux-2.6.8.

2007-06-18  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        README-hacking: Don't mention Gzip 1.2.4, now that 1.3.12 is out. Mention uuid-devel and pkg-config, too.

2007-06-12  David Vazquez  <xeos@gmail.com>

        Replace some malloc and strdup by xmalloc and xstrdup respectively
        I replace some malloc and strdup by xmalloc and xstrdup respectively.

2007-06-12  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        Fix the mkfs final-block-group-too-short bug.
        mkfs would fail for certain sizes resulting in a final block-group
        that was too small to accommodate the minimum number of admin blocks.
        There was already work-around code for when a decremented "numgroups"
        was 1.  This change applies that work-around code for larger values of
        numgroups, too.  Also, there was an off-by-one error in the guard test
        that would allow a few too-small partition sizes to slip through and
        provoke the error (see tests/t2000-mkfs.sh for two examples).
        This change fixes that, too.

        Fix two "make check"-as-root failures. t1100-busy-label.sh: Remove extra copy of "o2" temporary file name. test-lib.sh (emit_superuser_warning): Exit successfully when run as root, too.

2007-06-11  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        Fix inconsistent prompt for file system type.
        * parted/parted.c (do_mkfs): Use a consistent prompt when asking
        for a file system type.

2007-06-11  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        Add a test to record the current EXT2 mkpartfs failure for some sizes.
        Run this:

            dev=F
            dd if=/dev/null of=$dev bs=1 seek=20M
            ./parted -s $dev mklabel gpt
            ./parted -s $dev mkpartfs primary ext2 0 16796160B

        It fails with this diagnostic:

            Error: Attempt to write sectors 32772-32773 outside of partition on /t/F.

        But if you choose a size that's one byte smaller, it works:

            ./parted -s $dev mkpartfs primary ext2 0 16796159B

        The difference is in how ext2_mkfs_write_meta computes
        the number of block groups.  In the former case, it computes
        numgroups = 3.  In the latter, numgroups = 2.
        The trouble with the first case is that there isn't enough
        space for 3 full block groups in a file system of that size.
        Hence the eventual attempt to write beyond the initially-
        established end-of-file-system mark.

2007-06-11  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        Avoid unnecessary writes in test scripts.
        This changes the tests to create sparse files for some test inputs
        rather than zero-filled non-sparse ones.  Doing this cuts more than 50% off
        the run time of "make check" in the tests/ directory.

2007-06-11  Matt Davis  <mattdavis9@gmail.com>

        Add a test for an ext2-resize failure.
        This patch is based on the change from Matt Davis:

            http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.parted.devel/1695/focus=1704

        Demonstrate an ext2-resize failure in parted-1.8.7, based on the report in
        http://parted.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/ticket/22

2007-06-05  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        Turn off "DEBUG" in libparted/libparted.c, ... thus making it so that ped_malloc no longer initializes all just-allocated memory to all '1' bits.  Given the two bugs I've just fixed, this change is long overdue.

2007-06-05  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        Make "mklabel amiga" work also when DEBUG is not enabled.
        I turned off DEBUG and discovered test failures that its
        bogus always-initialize-malloc'd-memory policy had been hiding:

        (amiga_write): Initialize all of "->disk_specific" buffer.
        Avoid buffer overrun when initializing "TABLE".

2007-06-05  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        "mklabel bsd": don't read/write initialized memory, with DEBUG turned off I spent the first part of yesterday debugging the ext2-resize failure. As part of that, I turned off DEBUG and was surprised to see new failures in the label checks.  At least for label types "amiga" and "bsd", the implementation required that freshly-allocated memory be filled with all "1" bits, as was guaranteed by the default setting of
        #define DEBUG 1

        When I turned that off, bsd.c would read/write uninitialized memory, and
        rdb.c(amiga) would do more of the same and produce partition tables that
        it would then fail to recognize.

        Here's the fix for the bsd problems.
        I'll send the rdb/amiga ones separately, and once all tests pass
        without malloc-initialization-to-all-1's, I'll remove that, too.

        The bsd read-uninit bug was at bsd.c:341 (bsd_write), with this test:

                if (!bsd_specific->boot_code [0])
                        _probe_and_add_boot_code (disk);

        that first byte was never initialized.
        So, I figured, that'll be easy.  Just initialize it.
        Wrong.  That wasn't enough, since then a part of that same 512-byte
        buffer (starting at offset 340) would be used uninitialized by
        a write syscall.

        FYI, the first failure was demonstrated like this:

        dev=f
        N=1M
        dd if=/dev/zero of=$dev bs=$N count=1 && valgrind ./parted -s $dev mklabel bsd

        Here's the first one:

        ==20087== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)
        ==20087==    at 0x4429EE: bsd_write (bsd.c:341)
        ==20087==    by 0x411AD3: ped_disk_commit_to_dev (disk.c:485)
        ==20087==    by 0x411B19: ped_disk_commit (disk.c:508)
        ==20087==    by 0x403A12: do_mklabel (parted.c:622)
        ==20087==    by 0x402AF7: command_run (command.c:139)
        ==20087==    by 0x40B00A: non_interactive_mode (ui.c:1530)
        ==20087==    by 0x407A8B: main (parted.c:2479)

        and even after initializing only that first byte, here's what I got:

        ==25692== Syscall param write(buf) points to uninitialised byte(s)
        ==25692==    at 0x54874D0: __write_nocancel (in /usr/lib/debug/libc-2.5.so)
        ==25692==    by 0x41A15C: linux_write (linux.c:1599)
        ==25692==    by 0x40D9CA: ped_device_write (device.c:369)
        ==25692==    by 0x442B1E: bsd_write (bsd.c:368)
        ==25692==    by 0x411AD3: ped_disk_commit_to_dev (disk.c:485)
        ==25692==    by 0x411B19: ped_disk_commit (disk.c:508)
        ==25692==    by 0x403A12: do_mklabel (parted.c:622)
        ==25692==    by 0x402AF7: command_run (command.c:139)
        ==25692==    by 0x40B00A: non_interactive_mode (ui.c:1530)
        ==25692==    by 0x407A8B: main (parted.c:2479)
        ==25692==  Address 0x59E9C01 is 340 bytes inside a block of size 512 alloc'd
        ==25692==    at 0x4A1EC7C: memalign (vg_replace_malloc.c:332)
        ==25692==    by 0x4A1ECD5: posix_memalign (vg_replace_malloc.c:425)
        ==25692==    by 0x41A11A: linux_write (linux.c:1594)
        ==25692==    by 0x40D9CA: ped_device_write (device.c:369)
        ==25692==    by 0x442B1E: bsd_write (bsd.c:368)
        ==25692==    by 0x411AD3: ped_disk_commit_to_dev (disk.c:485)
        ==25692==    by 0x411B19: ped_disk_commit (disk.c:508)
        ==25692==    by 0x403A12: do_mklabel (parted.c:622)
        ==25692==    by 0x402AF7: command_run (command.c:139)
        ==25692==    by 0x40B00A: non_interactive_mode (ui.c:1530)
        ==25692==    by 0x407A8B: main (parted.c:2479)

2007-05-31  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        Don't leak a partition table buffer. * libparted/labels/rdb.c (amiga_read): Free the buffer upon success as well as on failure.

        Correct a misleading diagnostic.
        * libparted/disk.c (ped_disk_new): Remove always-false "Unable to open"
        part of diagnostic.  Leave the "unrecognized disk label" part.

        Fix build failure (conflicting decl of strnlen) and clean up
        * parted/strlist.h: Include <config.h> first.
        [!ENABLE_NLS]: Define wchar_t to char here, too, since we no
        longer include "strlist.h" after the definition in table.c.
        * parted/table.c: Include <wchar.h> and <string.h> unconditionally,
        and before wchar_t redefinition.
        Hoist inclusions of xalloc.h and strlist.h, too.
        Remove wcwidth and strnlen declarations, since they're guaranteed
        to be in the gnulib-supplied-if-needed headers.

        Read an msdos partition table from a device with 2K sectors.
        * libparted/labels/dos.c: Include <stdbool.h>.
        (msdos_probe): Don't hard-code 512.
        Use read_sector, not ped_device_read.
        Adapt to changed type of "part_table".
        Now that "label" is malloc'd, be sure to free it before returning.
        (read_table): Likewise.

2007-05-30  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        Fix "make distcheck" failure due to not finding usable partition * m4/o-direct.m4: Require that read as well as write succeed. Require that both work with blocks of size 512 as well as 4096. Reiserfs3 doesn't support 512-byte reads. Allow the user running the test to specify the first directory to test via the PARTED_TMPDIR envvar, in case none of the dirs checked by default is usable.

        Fix configure-with-nls vs. wchar.h/wcsdup problem differently. * parted/table.c: Include <config.h> *before* all other #include directives.  Remove explicit declaration of wcsdup.  Now, we'll get the one from <wchar.h>.

2007-05-29  Otavio Salvador  <otavio@ossystems.com.br>

        parted/table.c: Fix a warning when compiling with translation support
        ,----[ Output when compiling with translation support ]
        |...
        | table.c: In function 'table_add_row_from_strlist':
        | table.c:168: warning: implicit declaration of function 'wcsdup'
        | table.c:168: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
        `----

2007-05-29  Benno Schulenberg  <bensberg@justemail.net>

        fdasd label: Move formatting out of translatable strings.
        Also gettextize several missed messages, and simplify some of them.

        vtoc label: Move formatting out of translatable strings.
        Also gettextize a few missed messages, and remove some whitespace.

2007-05-29  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        Avoid a leak.
        * parted/parted.c (do_print): Use separate variables for the header
        and for individual rows.  Free each when done.
        * parted/table.c (table_add_row_from_strlist): Insert a newly
        allocated copy of each string, so that the caller can free
        the argument corresponding to the "list" parameter.
        * tests/t0100-print.sh: New test for this.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add t0100-print.sh.

        Move a test/utility function into test-lib.sh.
        * tests/t3000-constraints.sh (emit_superuser_warning): Move this
        function to...
        * tests/test-lib.sh (emit_superuser_warning): ...here.
        * tests/t0000-basic.sh: Use the function instead of open-coding it.

2007-05-29  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        On IRC, xeos reported test failures in t0000 and t2000 with diffs like this:
          -/home/xeos/projects/parted/parted/.libs/lt-parted: invalid token: msdos
          +parted: invalid token: msdos

        Here's the patch I expect to apply.
        It also removes an inter-part dependency by moving the creation
        of the "o2" temporary file into the test where it's used.

        Some of this duplication should be factored out, eventually...

2007-05-26  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        Diagnose invalid command arguments.
        This started because I objected to parted failing with no diagnostic
        when given an invalid file system type:

            $ /sbin/parted -s $dev mklabel loop mkpartfs hfsplus 0 1.4
            WARNING: You are not superuser.  Watch out for permissions.
            [Exit 1]

        With the changes below, it does this:

            $ ./parted -s $dev mklabel loop mkpartfs hfsplus 0 1.4
            ./parted: invalid token: hfsplus
            [Exit 1]

        The following may look like a simple change, but looks are deceptive...
        For example, if you try to diagnose via ped_exception_throw instead
        of "error", you'll find that the mere fact of diagnosing the problem
        introduces new ones because of how the exception handler manipulates the
        global command line buffer containing the token we're complaining about.

        But this isn't library code, so using error() is fine.

                Diagnose invalid command arguments.
                When a command argument doesn't match the expected candidate values,
                parted would silently exit (in script mode) or simply act as if that
                value and any following ones had not been specified (in interactive
                mode).  With this change, it complains about the "invalid token",
                and in script mode (where there hasn't been a prompt to give context)
                sometimes tells what type of token it was expecting.
                * parted/ui.c: Include "error.h".
                (command_line_get_word): If the user's "token" wasn't a good enough
                match, give a diagnostic.  In script mode, return NULL so that the
                callers can give additional information.
                * tests/t2000-mkfs.sh: New test for the above.
                * tests/t0000-basic.sh: Expect the new diagnostic when "msdos" is
                treated as an unrecognized first token after "mklabel".  This happens
                when trying to label a disk that already has a label.
                * tests/t1100-busy-label.sh: Likewise.

2007-05-25  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        Use xmalloc and xrealloc, rather than unchecked malloc and realloc. * parted/table.c: Use gnulib's xmalloc and realloc. Remove anachronistic casts of malloc/realloc return value. Change "sizeof(type)" to safer "sizeof(*var)" (one of the former was wrong, but in a harmless way).

        Fix off-by-one error in previous change. * parted/strlist.c (str_list_print_wrap): Don't output a space unconditionally.

2007-05-25  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        Remove a silly (and dangerous) function.
        This change has no effect, except in a low-memory condition,
        where the old code would dereference NULL, the new code no
        longer performs that malloc.

        * parted/strlist.c (get_spaces): Remove this function.
        Not only is it useless, but it also has an unchecked malloc.
        (str_list_print_wrap): Don't allocate and initialize a string
        just to print a sequence of N spaces.

2007-05-25  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        doc/parted.texi (Static binaries): Correct an invalid example. One cannot specify "primary" for a partition on a loop device.

2007-05-24  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        Diagnose "ext2 FS too small" rather than triggering an assertion. * libparted/fs/ext2/ext2_mkfs.c (ext2_mkfs): An overlapping ext2 partition request could still lead to a bug: constraint-resolution code would produce a single-sector candidate "range", and that would cause the ext2 fs-creation code to misbehave.  Now, it properly detects and reports the FS as being too small. * tests/t3000-constraints.sh: New test for the above. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add t3000-constraints.sh.

        Fix typo in privs-required test setup. * tests/test-lib.sh: Fix typo: s/\$parted/$parted_/.

2007-05-23  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        Don't fail all tests when "." lacks O_DIRECT support.
        I often build tools on a tmpfs file system (it's faster), and
        found that parted tests always failed there.  That's because it tries
        to open the "device" (a file) with O_DIRECT, and at least the linux tmpfs
        driver always fails with EINVAL in that case.

        So here's a patch that makes it work.
        Since the test may require writing in a directory like /tmp,
        to which others typically have write access, it is particularly
        careful about security (see the mkdtemp script below), in case
        "make check" is run by e.g., root.

        Don't fail all tests when "." lacks O_DIRECT support.
        Before, running "make check" on a file system that doesn't support
        O_DIRECT (e.g. tmpfs), would always fail.  Now, it works, as long as
        the test machinery can find a writable directory in which open with
        O_DIRECT *does* work.
        * m4/o-direct.m4: New file.  Find a directory/FS with O_DIRECT support.
        * configure.ac: Use the new macro.
        * libparted/tests/t1000-label.sh: New file.  Wrap the binary, so
        it can take advantage of the code that finds O_DIRECT supporting FS.
        * tests/mkdtemp: New file.  Required, since when running tests as
        root, we may have to create a temporary directory in a directory
        like /tmp that's writable by others.
        * tests/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add mkdtemp.
        * tests/test-lib.sh: When creating test subdir, and setting up "trap",
        use the directory specified in $PARTED_USABLE_TEST_DIR.
        Don't set PATH here.  Now, that's done via the generated, and always-
        sourced, init.sh.  As a result, invoke parted via its full file name.

2007-05-19  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        Make all tests get their initialization from the same place. * tests/t2000-mkfs.sh: Get initialization via ". ./init.sh", not via ". ./test-lib.sh". * Makefile.maint (sc_test_init): New test, to ensure we stay consistent.

        * tests/Makefile.am (init.sh): Make this generated file read-only.

2007-05-18  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        mkpartfs ext2 2 10 would erroneously report "file system too small" for some small (single-group) partitions.  It would also fail to report "file system too small" in some cases, and instead continue on to into inode-allocation code where it'd report "File system full!" * libparted/fs/ext2/ext2_mkfs.c (compute_block_counts): New function, factored out of... (ext2_mkfs): ...here.  Call compute_block_counts rather than open-coded it.  When decrementing numblocks, call compute_block_counts again, to recompute all of the derived values. Require at least 14 free blocks in a 16-inode-per-group partition. * tests/t1500-small-ext2.sh: New file.  Test for the above. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add t1500-small-ext2.sh.

2007-05-17  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        Avoid spurious test failures due to buggy ncurses-5.6. * tests/test-lib.sh: Also unset TERM.

2007-05-16  Benno Schulenberg  <bensberg@justemail.net>

        partprobe: new option: --dry-run, synonym for now-deprecated --no-update; improve its description

2007-05-15  Anant Narayanan  <anant@theghost.local>

        Test commit

2007-05-14  David Cantrell  <dcantrel@mortise.boston.redhat.com>

        Removed clean.sh script. Using git now, we don't need it anymore (git clean -d -x).

        Use gnulib xmalloc() and xrealloc().

2007-05-14  Flavio Leitner  <flavio.leitner@gmail.com>

        Fix exception handling in mkpart and mkpartfs
        Parted mkpart and mkpartfs commands does:
        ...
           ped_exception_fetch_all();
           if (!ped_disk_add_partition (disk, part, final_constraint)) {
                 ped_exception_leave_all();
        ...
           }
        ...
        In mkpart if the ped_disk_add_partition() returns true it skips
        ped_exception_leave_all() leaving ex_fetch_count = 1.

        In mkpartfs if the ped_disk_add_partition() returns false it will
        call ped_exception_leave_all() leaving ex_fetch_count negative.

        The wrong count in ex_fetch_count will prevent next commands to
        correctly handle exceptions, failing to prompt users for example.

        Note: test script t2000-mkfs.sh improved to verify against this issue.

2007-05-11  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        * tests/t1100-busy-label.sh: Quote uses of $dev, in case the user's device name contains a shell meta-character.
        SCALAR(0x7f6040)

        When labeling a disk in --script mode, fail if it is in use. * parted/parted.c (_disk_warn_busy): In script mode, throw a "PED_EXCEPTION_ERROR", not a warning. (do_mklabel): Guard only the _disk_warn_loss call with "if (!opt_script_mode...", not the _disk_warn_loss call. * tests/t1100-busy-label.sh: New file.  Test the above, in interactive mode as well as in script mode.  Requires root privilege (to mount a fs), and an actual block device. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add t1100-busy-label.sh. * tests/test-lib.sh: Add infrastructure to support new privileges_required_=1 and erasable_device_required_=1 settings used by t1100.

        No longer require "srcdir=." when running a test manually. * tests/Makefile.am (init.sh): New rule, so one doesn't have to set "srcdir=." when running a test manually. * .gitignore: Ignore new generated file: tests/init.sh. * tests/t0000-basic.sh: Source new init.sh, rather than test-lib.sh. * tests/t1000-mkpartfs.sh: Likewise. * tests/t2000-mkfs.sh: Likewise. * tests/test-lib.sh: Remove useless srcdir-setting code.

2007-05-09  Otavio Salvador  <otavio@ossystems.com.br>

        [parted] Fix script mode support on mkfs commandline command
        Parted was lacking support to script mode on do_mkfs method hence
        always failing.

        Note: tests/t2000-mkfs.sh was created to avoid it to happen again

2007-05-08  Debarshi Ray  <rishi@gnu.org>

        Preventing compilation of DASD code on GNU Hurd systems through the use of AC_COMPILE_IFELSE and AM_CONDITIONAL, instead of #ifdef.

2007-05-07  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        Rewrite integration tests to use a new framework (git's). * tests/t1000-mkpartfs.sh: New file. * tests/t0000-basic.sh: New file. * tests/test-lib.sh: New file.  Derived from git's t/test-lib.sh. * tests/lang-default, tests/priv-check: Remove files. * tests/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add test-lib.sh. Remove lang-default and priv-check; no longer used. * tests/part-01, tests/label-01: Remove files. * tests/part-02, tests/label-02: Likewise.

        Merge branch 'inhibit-word-wrap'

        Merge branch 'include-limits-h-for-CHAR_MAX'

        Make ---pretend-input-tty inhibit output word-wrap. * parted/ui.c (screen_width): Use effectively-unlimited screen width with ---pretend-input-tty, just as for '--script' mode.

        Suppress "you are not superuser..." warning in script mode. * parted/parted.c (_init): Do not emit this warning in script mode: "You are not superuser.  Watch out for permissions."

        Avoid "make distcheck" failure, with newer system headers. * parted/parted.c: Include <limits.h>, for use of CHAR_MAX.

2007-05-03  Anant Narayanan  <anant@kix.in>

        Updated Doxyfile

2007-05-02  David Cantrell  <dcantrel@mortise.boston.redhat.com>

        On the edge branch, labeled the version as 1.9.0 so we can mark it more correctly as the development tree.

        Whitespace cleanups.

        Whitespace cleanups.

        Whitespace cleanups.

        Whitespace cleanups.

        Revert "Remove unused label."
        This reverts commit bfd9a6d8b6322d870650b0e92bd936035ab28e76.

        Patch from Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> to linux_write() to support logical
        sector sizes other than 512 (PED_SECTOR_SIZE_DEFAULT).

        Fix primary partition cylinder alignment error for DOS disk labels.

        Fix off-by-one bug in parted when displaying information about the disk label (the disk size, specifically).

        Do not translate partition names in 'parted print' command. This causes problems for non-Latin-based character sets. Also, we don't want to translate the partition name here as we are just showing what is in the disklabel, translating it distorts what the value is.
        Also added some malloc checks in table.c.

        Remove unused label.

2007-05-02  David Cantrell  <dcantrell@redhat.com>

        Reverted my patch to configure.ac to remove -Wl,--as-needed from LDFLAGS when checking for libreadline.

2007-05-02  David Cantrell  <dcantrell@redhat.com>

        libreadline is a problematic library. Autoconf adds a block to the generated configure script that checks to see if we should be passing the --as-needed flag to ld(1). There are portability reasons this code exists (best I can figure), but it presents a problem when we scan for libreadline.
        libreadline specifically has unresolved symbols on at least Fedora and RHEL.  Why?  Well, the developer can choose to provide libtermcap, libncurses, or libncursesw (wide-char support) at compile time which all satisfy the curses API dependency that libreadline has.  When the parted configure script runs, it fails on readline because the --as-needed flag causes the linker to not include libncurses even though we already have that on the link line.

        My solution is to remove the --as-needed flag when we scan for libreadline and then later check for rl_completion_matches() in libreadline.

2007-05-02  David Cantrell  <dcantrell@redhat.com>

        More changes to set the version number to 1.8.3.

        Set version to 1.8.3 for upcoming release.

2007-05-01  Debarshi Ray  <rishi@gnu.org>

        [tests] Separate and improved test for reading of disk labels.

2007-04-30  Matthew Harris  <mharris@coruscant.(none)>

        Fix endianness bugs

2007-04-26  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        Add integration tests, then adjust code so that they pass. These changes affect how --script (-s) works, and when diagnostics are displayed. * Makefile.am (SUBDIRS): Add tests. * configure.ac (AC_OUTPUT): Add tests/Makefile. * tests/Makefile.am: New file. * tests/part-01, tests/label-01: New files. * tests/part-02, tests/label-02: New files. * parted/parted.c (enum) [PRETEND_INPUT_TTY]: Define. Support a new, undocumented option: ---pretend-input-tty. It is intended solely for testing.  The leading '---' ensures that it will never conflict with a "regular" long option. (do_mkpartfs): Prompt only when not in script mode. Call ped_exception_leave_all() to decrement global counter. Without this, the use of parted in tests/part-01 would still fail, but would not issue the diagnostic explaining why. * parted/ui.h (pretend_input_tty): Declare new global. * parted/ui.c (exception_handler): Let the new "pretend_input_tty" option override "!isatty (0)". (init_ui): Don't set opt_script_mode. * tests/lang-default, tests/priv-check: New files.

        Temporarily disable the clone-dvh-label test. * libparted/tests/label.c (test_clone_label):

2007-04-21  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        [PATCH] Avoid warning from -Wformat-security; tweak error diagnostic.
        * parted/parted.c (_parse_options): Upon failure, output diagnostic
        to stderr, not stdout.  Use "program_name" value, not literal "parted".

2007-04-20  Debarshi Ray  <rishi@gnu.org>

        [tests] New test for probing of disk labels.

2007-04-20  Otavio Salvador  <otavio@ossystems.com.br>

        Revert "[libparted] dvh label fixes"
        This reverts commit dcf8e966abf997b9df69b1664c470ed2aa5c166b.

        [libparted] dvh label fixes

        [tests] Simplify test_clone_label removing the label reading test
        Since the test_create_label already tests the label reading we
        shouldn't redo it. It's always better to have simple tests so is much
        easier to find the bugs.

2007-04-19  Otavio Salvador  <otavio@ossystems.com.br>

        [tests] Trivial coding style fixes around the tests code

2007-04-19  Otavio Salvador  <otavio@ossystems.com.br>

        [tests] Add _test_exception_handler to fail every time an exception is raised
        Sometimes parts of code raises exceptions and this shouldn't happen on
        tests. To ensure we catch them a specific exception handler has been
        implemented.

        The handler usage is very easy. You just need to put the following
        code at testsuite main method:

        ...
                /* Fail when an exception is raised */
                ped_exception_set_handler (_test_exception_handler);
        ...

2007-04-19  Debarshi Ray  <rishi@gnu.org>

        [tests] New test for cloning of disk labels.

        [tests] Fix spacing around brackets and asterisks.

2007-04-18  Benno Schulenberg  <bensberg@justemail.net>

        Handle options independent of their order.
        Abort on any invalid option, and handle -v and -h first.

2007-04-18  Otavio Salvador  <otavio@ossystems.com.br>

        [tests] Small refactoring on test_create_label
         - Destroy the temporary device once the test has been finished,
         - Use the _implemented_disk_label and _create_disk_label methods
           to avoid code duplication.

2007-04-18  Otavio Salvador  <otavio@ossystems.com.br>

        [tests] Implements _implemented_disk_label and _create_disk_label on common.[hc]
         - _implemented_disk_label: returns 0 when we haven't yet implemented
           this specific label and 1 otherwise;

         - _create_disk_label: creates a disk label of a specific type on a
           specific device;

2007-04-18  Otavio Salvador  <otavio@ossystems.com.br>

        [tests] Ensure that we're able to read the just created disk label
        To ensure we're able to read the just created disk label we introduced a call
        ped_disk_new using the same loopback. This could detect bad label creating or
        probing detectiong mistakes.

2007-04-17  Debarshi Ray  <rishi@gnu.org>

        Indentation fixes in libparted/tests/.

2007-04-16  Debarshi Ray  <rishi@gnu.org>

        Show the update /etc/fstab message only when there has been a change to the disk. The message is now shorter and more direct.

2007-04-06  solsTiCe d'Hiver  <solsticed.hiver@laposte.net>

        change the variable named start to offset to be consistent with the doc

2007-04-05  solsTiCe d'Hiver  <solstice.dhiver@laposte.net>

        remove any trace of PED_PARTITION_PRIMARY which was deprecated a long time ago to use PED_PARTITION_NORMAL

2007-04-05  Benno Schulenberg  <bensberg@justemail.net>

        Added 'rescue', 'unit', and 'version' to the man page, plus some small edits.

2007-04-04  Otavio Salvador  <otavio@ossystems.com.br>

        Avoid segfault due a double free on reiserfs support (patch sent by Jakub Bogusz <qboosh@pld-linux.org>)

2007-04-04  Benno Schulenberg  <bensberg@justemail.net>

        Make the wording of warning somewhat clearer.

2007-03-27  Benno Schulenberg  <bensberg@justemail.net>

        Tweak some help messages: change third person to imperative for consistency, add single quotes and remove letters for clarity

2007-03-19  David Cantrell  <dcantrell@redhat.com>

        Conditionalize the System Z stuff correctly.  We get headers installed on non-System Z platforms, but the code only compiles on that platform.

        Remove the COMPILE_FOR_S390 flag-setting stuff.  It wasn't correct anyway.  Take a kernel-style approach and check uname -m to see if we are on s390.  If so, we build for zSeries.  Otherwise we do not.

        Sleep for one second after uploading a file to ftp-upload.gnu.org.  Seems transactions need to be spaced out a bit otherwise the server will reject files.

        Fix for compile problems with gcc-4.1.2 as indicated here: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2007-03/msg00008.html

        Check for tgetent() in libtinfo as well as ncurses, curses, termcap, and termlib.

        Remove some unused variables, check the return values from fgets() and asprintf(), and remove the unused _dm_remove_map() function.

        Include vtoc.h for the format1_label_t typedef.

        Remove GNU make-specific things from po4a.mk.

2007-03-16  David Cantrell  <dcantrell@redhat.com>

        Install the libparted.pc file, not the libparted.pc.in file.

        More spec file template cleanups.

        Updated the release script to work with the new source layout.

2007-03-16  Debarshi Ray  <rishi@gnu.org>

        Fixed faulty information in README-hacking (Bison is not a maintainer tool for Parted), and Makefile.maint (every project has certain variations of it).

2007-03-16  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        po/POTFILES.in: Add lib/getopt.c

2007-03-16  Debarshi Ray  <rishi@gnu.org>

        Prevented DASD specific headers and sources from being compiled/installed on non-s390 systems; and conditionally included fdasd.h in linux.h for s390 systems.

2007-03-15  David Cantrell  <dcantrell@redhat.com>

        Move static variable flagging little endian or not to journal.c.  We don't want static variables in general, but if they must exist, put them in a C file, not a header.
        Parameterize the little_endian flag for the macros in journal.h.

2007-03-13  David Cantrell  <dcantrell@redhat.com>

        Modernize the spec file template.

        Ignore more files.

        Patch from Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> to add HFS+ resize support.

2007-03-12  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        hfs.c: Detect write failure. * libparted/fs/hfs/hfs.c (hfs_extract_file, hfs_extract_bitmap): (hfs_extract_mdb, hfsplus_extract_file, hfsplus_extract_vh): Fail when fclose fails for a written-to file handle.

2007-03-08  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

                aix.c: Avoid memory overrun.  Don't assume logical sector size <= 512B  * libparted/labels/aix.c (struct AixLabel): Remove definition.  (aix_label_magic_get, aix_label_magic_set): New functions.      (read_sector): New function.    (aix_probe): Rewrite not to use the above, and not a static buffer.     (aix_clobber): Likewise.        Also, rather than PED_ASSERT'ing that aix_probe returns 1,      simply return 0 if aix_probe returns fails.     (ped_disk_aix_init): Remove assertion, now that AixLabel is gone.

                Use PED_SECTOR_SIZE_DEFAULT not 512     * libparted/arch/beos.c (beos_read, beos_write):        * libparted/arch/linux.c (_device_get_length, _device_seek)     (linux_read, linux_write, _blkpg_add_partition):        * libparted/fs/fat/bootsector.c (fat_boot_sector_read):         * libparted/labels/bsd.c (bsd_alloc):   * libparted/labels/dos.c (probe_filesystem_for_geom):   * libparted/labels/rdb.c (amiga_read):

        * parted/ui.c (non_interactive_mode): Plug a tiny leak. Exercise by running the following with a CD-ROM in the drive: valgrind --leak-check=full parted/parted /dev/cdrom print Before, we'd leak the 6-byte command: "print\0".

        linux.c: Avoid memory overrun.  Handle 2048-byte logical sectors. * libparted/arch/linux.c (linux_read): Allocate the right amount of space for the (potentially 2048-byte-long) sectors we're about to read.

2007-03-07  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        Don't use deprecated mktemp, to avoid linker warning * libparted/tests/common.c (_create_disk): Rewrite to use mkstemp instead.

        * libparted/tests/label.c: Plug a trivial leak.

2007-03-07  Debarshi Ray  <rishi@sunflower.(none)>

        Merge branch 'master' of git+ssh://rishi-guest@git.debian.org/git/parted/parted

2007-03-07  Debarshi Ray  <rishi@gnu.org>

        Replaced [f]printf with fput[c|s] globally.

2007-03-07  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        libparted/unit.c: constify interfaces * include/parted/unit.h (PED_UNIT_LAST): * libparted/unit.c (ped_unit_get_size): (ped_unit_format_custom_byte, ped_unit_format_byte): (ped_unit_format_custom, ped_unit_format, ped_unit_parse): (find_suffix, parse_chs, clip, geometry_from_centre_radius): (ped_unit_parse_custom):

        Declare some static arrays to be "const". * libparted/labels/dos.c (MBR_BOOT_CODE): * libparted/labels/efi_crc32.c (crc32_tab): * libparted/labels/pc98.c (MBR_BOOT_CODE): * libparted/labels/vtoc.c (EBCtoASC, ASCtoEBC):

        * configure.ac: Fix a typo: s/have_scintilla/have_check/

        tests/label: Don't dereference NULL if open fails. * libparted/tests/label.c (START_TEST): Return right away if ped_device_get returns NULL.

        Add "const" to parameters in these public interfaces. * libparted/disk.c (ped_disk_check): (ped_disk_get_primary_partition_count): (ped_disk_get_last_partition_num, ped_partition_print): (ped_disk_print): (ped_partition_print): Also declare to be "static". This is ok, since the function is referenced only from this file. * include/parted/disk.h: Update their prototypes.

        Use <config.h> consistently, not "config.h". * Makefile.cfg (local-checks-to-skip): Remove sc_require_config_h, to enable the "make distcheck" test for this.

2007-03-06  David Cantrell  <dcantrell@redhat.com>

        start_pos is a PedSector, not a PedGeometry.

2007-03-06  David Cantrell  <dcantrel@mortise.boston.redhat.com>

        Preserve starting sector for primary NTFS 3.1 partitions (Windows Vista) when modifying the DOS disk label.  NTFS 3.1 partitions do not start on the 2nd head of the 1st cylinder at the beginning of the drive.

        Patched parted.8 man page to show partition names apply to GPT disk labels
        as well as Mac and PC98 disk labels.

2007-03-06  Debarshi Ray  <rishi@gnu.org>

        Replaced [f]printf with fput[c|s] in libparted/fs/ext2/ext2_block_relocator.c.

        Re-arranging .gitignore in alphabetical order.

        Defined a dummy '_dump_history' function in parted/ui.c when Readline is absent. Thanks to Jim Meyering for the suggestion.

        Added libparted/tests/label to .gitignore.

        Fixed parted/ui.c to incorporate signal handlers for systems lacking 'sigaction', 'SA_SIGINFO', and other constants in signal.h.

2007-03-05  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        Undo part of the dos.c constification. * libparted/disk.c: The sole parameter of ped_disk_type_register and ped_disk_type_unregister must *not* be const. * libparted/labels/dos.c (msdos_disk_type): Likewise for the corresponding static struct in dos.c, since those functions modify the struct.  This didn't show up at compile time due to casts. * include/parted/disk.h: Update prototypes, too.

        Hide two unnecessarily-"extern" functions. * libparted/labels/mac.c (mac_alloc): Declare static. * libparted/labels/dos.c (raw_part_parse): Declare static.

        * libparted/labels/dos.c: Complete constification of this file. * libparted/disk.c (ped_disk_type_register): Make the sole parameter "const", so that caller's argument may be "const". (ped_disk_type_unregister): Likewise.

        * po/POTFILES.in: Add partprobe/partprobe.c, now that it contains translatable strings.

        Make partprobe accept --help and --version options. Add long options: --no-update (same as existing -d), and --summary (same as existing -s). * partprobe/partprobe.c Include configmake.h, getopt.h, and NLS-related things. (main): Rewrite option handling. Along the way, fix a bug whereby "partprobe DEV1 DEV2 ... DEVN" would exit successfully whenever process_dev (DEVN) returns nonzero, even when that function fails for each of the preceding devices.

        Make clearfat accept --help and --version options. * debug/clearfat/clearfat.c (AUTHORS, PROGRAM_NAME): Define. Include gettext-related things. Include closeout.h. (usage): New function. (main): Set up for translations, use close_stdout. * bootstrap.conf: Add long-options, for clearfat. * debug/clearfat/Makefile.am: Use gnulib.

        * include/parted/disk.h (struct _PedDiskOps) [write]: Change parameter type to be "const".

        Begin making libparted/labels/*.c const-correct. For an introduction, see http://mail-archive.com/parted-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org/msg00930.html In particular, I've used a const-adding case in mac.c to work around the current, inconsistent semantics of mac_write.

        Avoid a libtool warning: libtool: link: warning: `-release' is ignored for convenience libraries * libparted/labels/Makefile.am (liblabels_la_LDFLAGS): Don't define.

        Make "make distcheck" work better. * Makefile.cfg (local-checks-to-skip): Skip sc_system_h_headers, too. * Makefile.maint (my-distcheck): Don't depend on $(release_archive_dir).

2007-03-02  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        Avoid recursive "LIBS = ... $(LIBS)" assignments. * libparted/labels/Makefile.am (liblabels_la_LIBADD): Add $(INTLLIBS) here rather than via a recursive LIBS = ... $(LIBS) assignment. * libparted/fs/Makefile.am (libfs_la_LIBADD): Likewise.

2007-03-02  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        Use $(VAR), rather than obsolescent @VAR@ automake notation.
        Enable the makefile-check rule.
        * Makefile.cfg: Remove makefile-check from the list of rules to skip.
        * Makefile.am: change e.g., @VERSION@ to $(VERSION).
        * debug/clearfat/Makefile.am: Likewise.
        * libparted/Makefile.am: Likewise.
        * libparted/fs/Makefile.am: Likewise.
        * libparted/fs/amiga/Makefile.am: Likewise.
        * libparted/fs/bfs/Makefile.am: Likewise.
        * libparted/fs/ext2/Makefile.am: Likewise.
        * libparted/fs/fat/Makefile.am: Likewise.
        * libparted/fs/hfs/Makefile.am: Likewise.
        * libparted/fs/jfs/Makefile.am: Likewise.
        * libparted/fs/linux_swap/Makefile.am: Likewise.
        * libparted/fs/ntfs/Makefile.am: Likewise.
        * libparted/fs/reiserfs/Makefile.am: Likewise.
        * libparted/fs/ufs/Makefile.am: Likewise.
        * libparted/fs/xfs/Makefile.am: Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/Makefile.am: Likewise.
        * libparted/tests/Makefile.am: Likewise.
        * parted/Makefile.am: Likewise.
        * partprobe/Makefile.am: Likewise.

        The above conversion caused a problem:
        * libparted/Makefile.am: Remove this recursive definition:
        LIBS = @INTLLIBS@ @LIBS@.  Once converted to LIBS = ...$(LIBS),
        GNU make would (rightly) fail, objecting to the recursive definition.
        (libparted_la_LIBADD): Instead, add $(INTLLIBS) here.

2007-03-02  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        Enable the po-check rule.
        * Makefile.cfg (local-checks-to-skip): Remove po-check.
        * po/POTFILES.in: Add a bunch of names of files that contain
        translatable strings.  Remove some which contain none.

        Add infrastructure for more rigorous "make distcheck" rules.
        * GNUmakefile: New file.
        * .prev-version: New file.
        * Makefile.am (MAINTAINERCLEANFILES): Remove names of files now in build-aux/.
        (distcheck-hook): New rule, to run the checks in Makefile.maint.
        (EXTRA_DIST): Add .prev-version.
        * Makefile.maint: New file.  Improved "make distcheck" rules.
        * Makefile.cfg: Select which Makefile.maint checks to run.
        (local-checks-to-skip): List all currently-failing and irrelevant
        tests here.
        * build-aux/vc-list-files: New file.  List version-controlled files.
        * .gitignore: Remove build-aux, since now it contains a
        version-controlled file.

2007-03-01  Debarshi Ray  <rishi@gnu.org>

        Fixing indentation in parted/ui.c. Replaced TABs with spaces to ensure uniformity in all editors.

2007-02-28  Debarshi Ray  <rishi@gnu.org>

        Fixing indentation in parted/ui.c.

2007-02-27  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        Normalize the way we handle a generated-and-distributed file, parted.spec. * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add parted.spec. (parted.spec): New rule. (MAINTAINERCLEANFILES): Add parted.spec. * configure.ac (AC_OUTPUT): Remove parted.spec from the list.

        Add -I$(top_srcdir)/lib, required for new use of close_stdout. * partprobe/Makefile.am (partedincludedir):

        Arrange for "make distcheck" to be stricter.

2007-02-26  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        * bootstrap: new file.

2007-02-26  Debarshi Ray  <rishi@gnu.org>

        Fixing libparted/arch/gnu.c to remove build-time errors.

2007-02-25  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        partprobe: Detect/report any error when writing to stdout.      * partprobe/Makefile.am (partprobe_LDADD): Add lib/libparted.la.        * partprobe/partprobe.c:        Include "closeout.h" for close_stdout.  Include "version-etc.h" for version_etc prototype.      Declare global, program_name.   (PROGRAM_NAME, AUTHORS): Define.        (help): Use PROGRAM_NAME, rather than hard-coding it.   (version): Use gnulib's version_etc.    (main): Set program_name.       Use atexit to close stdout carefully upon exit.

        Add a bunch of .gitignore files.

                Avoid a gcc format warning:     * debug/clearfat/clearfat.c (_do_help): Use fputs, not printf.

                Remove now-generated files.     * po/ca.po, po/cs.po, po/da.po, po/de.po, po/es.po, po/fr.po:   * po/gl.po, po/id.po, po/it.po, po/ja.po, po/nl.po, po/nn.po:   * po/pl.po, po/pt.po, po/pt_BR.po, po/ru.po:    * po/sv.po, po/tr.po, po/uk.po, po/vi.po, po/zh_CN.po, po/zh_TW.po:     * po/Makevars: Remove now-generated file.       * po/parted.pot: Remove -generated file.

                mv parted.m4 into new dir, m4/
                * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Remove parted.m4.
                Now that it's in m4, it's included automatically.
                (aclocal_DATA): Remove unnecessary definition.

                * libparted/tests/label.c: Fail if _create_disk returns NULL.   Make global and functions static.       * libparted/tests/common.c (_create_disk): Handle fopen failure.        Handle fclose failure.

                Include <config.h> from every .c file:  * libparted/unit.c, libparted/timer.c:  * libparted/cs/natmath.c, libparted/cs/constraint.c:    * libparted/tests/label.c, libparted/tests/common.c:    * libparted/fs/fat/count.c, libparted/fs/fat/bootsector.c:      * libparted/fs/fat/context.c, libparted/fs/fat/fatio.c:         * libparted/fs/fat/fat.c, libparted/fs/fat/clstdup.c:   * libparted/fs/fat/resize.c, libparted/fs/fat/traverse.c:       * libparted/fs/fat/table.c, libparted/fs/fat/calc.c:    * libparted/fs/amiga/amiga.c, libparted/labels/fdasd.c:        * libparted/labels/dvh.c, libparted/labels/efi_crc32.c:         * libparted/labels/vtoc.c, parted/command.c:    * libparted/tests/label.c, libparted/tests/common.c:

                * libparted/libparted.c: Include "configmake.h" for LOCALEDIR defn.

        parted: Detect/report stdout write errors.      * parted/parted.c: Include "closeout.h" for close_stdout.       Include "configmake.h" for LOCALEDIR definition.        Include "version-etc.h" for version_etc prototype.      Declare global, program_name.   (PROGRAM_NAME, AUTHORS): Define.        (_version): Use gnulib's version_etc.   (main): Set program_name.       Use atexit to close stdout carefully upon exit.

        Include <config.h>, not "../config.h".

        Begin adjusting Makefile.am files to use gnulib. * libparted/Makefile.am (partedincludedir): Add -I$(top_srcdir)/lib. * parted/Makefile.am (parted_LDADD): Add lib/libparted.la. (partedincludedir): Add -I$(top_srcdir)/lib.

2007-02-25  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        Update to use gnulib, and newer autoconf, automake conventions.
                Add build-from-checkout instructions.
                * README-hacking: New file.  Mostly copied from coreutils'
                README-cvs.
                * bootstrap: Generate ChangeLog here, if needed/possible,
                before invoking tools that require its presence.
                * autogen.sh: Remove this file.  It's superseded by bootstrap.

                Use gnulib, modernize some uses of autoconf, automake, etc.
                * bootstrap, bootstrap.conf: New files.

                * configure.ac: Modernize.
                Require the latest stable releases: autoconf-2.61, automake-1.10.
                Require gettext-0.15.
                Use more modern form of AC_INIT, etc.
                Now that the version string must be hard-coded in the AC_INIT line,
                add code to ensure it agrees with the PED_* and LT_* variables.
                Use AM_CPPFLAGS, not CFLAGS
                Remove obsolete setting of ALL_LINGUAS.
                Don't set CFLAGS=-D_GNU_SOURCE=1 explicitly , since that's already
                done via AC_GNU_SOURCE, which gnulib pulls in by default,
                through gl_EARLY.
                Use gl_INIT and gl_EARLY.

                * Makefile.am (SUBDIRS): Add lib.
                (EXTRA_DIST): Remove names that are automatically included.
                * lib/Makefile.am: New file.

2007-02-23  Anant Narayanan  <anant@theghost.local>

        Fix memleaks. Patch thanks to Mike Hommey

2007-02-19  Debarshi Ray  <rishi@gnu.org>

        Introduced MAINTAINERCLEANFILES in Makefile.am for carrying out 'make maintainer-clean'.

2007-02-18  Debarshi Ray  <rishi@gnu.org>

        Cleaning up nested structs & unions.

2007-02-16  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        Avoid compiler warnings with gcc -Wall -Wshadow.
        * libparted/arch/linux.c (init_ide): Add missing "break" at end of
        final case: stmt.
        Add "default:" in the same switch to avoid a compiler warning.
        * libparted/fs/fat/bootsector.c (fat_boot_sector_analyse): Likewise.
        * libparted/fs/fat/resize.c (ask_type): Likewise.
        * libparted/fs/fat/traverse.c (fat_dir_entry_set_first_cluster):
        Likewise.
        * debug/clearfat/clearfat.c (_calc_fat_entry_offset): Likewise.

        * parted/parted.c (_timer_handler): Cast time_t values to "int"
        to agree with %d printf format.
        (g_timer): Rename file-scoped global from shadowed "timer".
        Update all uses of the global.
        (version_msg): Remove decl of unused global.

        * parted/ui.c (current_exception_opt): Remove decl of unused global.

        * libparted/filesys.c (ped_file_system_close): Remove unused label.
        * libparted/unit.c (parse_chs): Likewise.

        * libparted/debug.c (ped_assert): Use "int" as type of backtrace
        return value, not size_t.

        * libparted/fs/reiserfs/reiserfs.c (reiserfs_check):
        Guard declaration of local with #ifdef HAVE_REISERFS_FS_CHECK,
        since it's used only in a similarly-guarded block.
        (reiserfs_fs_check): Likewise for this file-scoped global.

        Avoid warnings about unused file-scoped global variables.
        * libparted/fs/hfs/hfs.h (hfs_type, hfsplus_type): Remove these
        declarations of file-scoped static variables.
        * libparted/fs/hfs/hfs.c: Put them here, instead.

        * libparted/fs/fat/table.c (_test_code_active): Remove unused function.

        * libparted/arch/linux.c: Add casts to avoid performing
        pointer arithmetic on "void *" pointers.

        * libparted/fs/hfs/file_plus.c (hfsplus_file_read):
        Don't do pointer arithmetic on a "void *" pointer.
        (hfsplus_file_write): Likewise.

        * libparted/fs/fat/count.c (flag_traverse_dir): Move decl of
        unused local into #if-0'd block where it is referenced.
        (print_chain): Guard definition with #ifdef PED_VERBOSE,
        since the sole use of this function is guarded the same way.

        * libparted/fs/amiga/amiga.c: (_amiga_valid_block_id):
        Remove unused function.
        (_amiga_get_bstr): Likewise.
        (_amiga_set_bstr): Likewise.

        Remove unused labels and/or declarations of unused variables.
        * parted/ui.c (_readline): Likewise.
        * libparted/cs/constraint.c (_constraint_get_canonical_start_range):
        Likewise.
        * libparted/cs/geom.c (ped_geometry_read): Likewise.
        * libparted/fs/amiga/apfs.c (_generic_apfs_probe): Likewise.
        * libparted/fs/ext2/ext2_mkfs.c (ext2_mkfs_write_meta): Likewise.
        * libparted/disk.c: Likewise.
        * libparted/fs/hfs/hfs.c: Likewise.
        * libparted/fs/fat/fat.c: Likewise.
        * libparted/fs/fat/clstdup.c: Likewise.
        * libparted/fs/fat/calc.c: Likewise.
        * libparted/fs/ext2/ext2.c: Likewise.
        * libparted/fs/amiga/affs.c: Likewise.
        * libparted/fs/amiga/asfs.c: Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/aix.c: Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/sun.c: Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/pc98.c: Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/mac.c: Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/dos.c: Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/loop.c (loop_alloc): Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/gpt.c: Likewise.
        * libparted/labels/dvh.c (dvh_alloc): Likewise.
        (dvh_read) [!DISCOVER_ONLY]: Add "default:" in a switch.

        * libparted/labels/fdasd.c (fdasd_reread_partition_table):
        Remove decl of unused local(s).
        (fdasd_get_partition_data): Likewise.
        (fdasd_partition_type): Remove unused function.
        (fdasd_write_vtoc_labels): Likewise.
        (fdasd_change_volser): Likewise.
        (fdasd_check_volser): Likewise.
        (fdasd_reread_partition_table): Likewise.

2007-02-16  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        * libparted/labels/rdb.c (amiga_read): Remove decl of unused local(s).

        * libparted/labels/bsd.c (bsd_partition_new): Remove unused label.

        * libparted/labels/dasd.c: Remove unused labels and declarations
        of unused variables.

2007-02-15  Debarshi Ray  <rishi@gnu.org>

        Fix the style of typedef, enum, struct and __attribute__ ((packed)).

2007-02-14  Debarshi Ray  <rishi@gnu.org>

        Deprecating ped_[register|unregister]_disk_type in favour of ped_disk_type_[register|unregister].

2007-02-14  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        Use lighter-weight fputs and putchar in place of printf, when possible.
        * parted/ui.c (wipe_line, _dump_history, reset_env):
        (sigsegv_handler, sigfpe_handler, sigill_handler, _readline):
        (help_msg, interactive_mode, non_interactive_mode): Use puts,
        fputs, and putchar in place of printf, when possible.
        (reset_env): Correct misleading indentation.
        (wipe_line): Split a long string.

        Make it so "make distcheck" passes.
        * doc/po4a.mk (updatepo): Don't choke when *.$(lang).po matches no file.
        * doc/C/Makefile.am (updatepo): Don't do anything when $(srcdir) is not writable.

2007-02-14  Debarshi Ray  <rishi@gnu.org>

        Fixed the copyright notices.

        Cleaned up the formatting of AUTHORS.

        Tidying up the formatting and comments in linux_swap.c.

2007-02-13  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        Don't define _GNU_SOURCE manually.
        It's better not to define _GNU_SOURCE manually.
        By using AC_GNU_SOURCE, you get the definition in exactly one place:
        in config.h.  I verified that each affected file also includes config.h.

        Don't define _GNU_SOURCE manually.
        * configure.ac: Use AC_GNU_SOURCE instead.
        * libparted/arch/gnu.c: Remove definition of _GNU_SOURCE.
        * libparted/arch/linux.c: Likewise.
        * libparted/device.c: Likewise.
        * parted/table.c: Likewise.
        * parted/table.h: Likewise.

2007-02-13  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        Remove some #ifdefs
        Remove some #ifdefs.
        * parted/table.c (L_): define.
        Remove in-function #ifdefs; use L_(str) instead.

        * libparted/labels/fdasd.c (GETARG): Remove unused definition.
        A tiny change...

2007-02-13  Otavio Salvador  <otavio@ossystems.com.br>

        Create 'm4' directory when generating the building system

2007-02-13  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        Work with automake-1.10.
        I've just tried building parted from scratch (running ./autogen.sh
        after git-clone) and hit a couple of snags:

        Without aclocal's -I m4, ./autogen.sh produced this:

          configure.ac:192: warning: macro `AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION' not found in library
          configure.ac:193: warning: macro `AM_GNU_GETTEXT' not found in library
          configure.ac:192: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION
                If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
                See the Autoconf documentation.

        With automake-1.10, I got this:

            parted/Makefile.am:5: compiling `command.c' with per-target flags requires `AM_PROG_CC_C_O' in `configure.ac'

        Here's a patch that fixes those and also removes some trailing blanks.

2007-02-13  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        Compile warning-free with "gcc -Wall -Wshadow".
        Hello,

        I find that keeping code warning-free (wrt gcc -Wall -Wshadow)
        makes it easier to avoid certain classes of bugs.

        Compiling with gcc -Wall -Wshadow evoked a few warnings
        on a Debian/unstable system.  Here are patches to fix those:

        * libparted/exception.c (default_handler): Rename parameter "ex"
        to "e", to avoid shadowing file-scoped global.
        * libparted/fs/linux_swap/linux_swap.c (_generic_swap_probe): Add a
        "can't happen" (with current callers) "default: goto error" clause
        in a switch to avoid a may-be-used-uninitialized warning.
        (_generic_swap_clobber): Likewise.
        * libparted/fs/hfs/reloc_plus.c (hfsplus_pack_free_space_from_block):
        Rename local variable "div" to "divisor", to avoid shadowing
        the function in <stdlib.h>.
        * libparted/fs/hfs/reloc.c (hfs_pack_free_space_from_block): Likewise.
        * libparted/fs/hfs/cache.c (hfsc_cache_add_extent): Rename parameter
        "index" to "ref_index" to avoid shadowing the <string.h> function.
        * libparted/labels/sun.c (sun_partition_enumerate): Rename local
        variable "i" to "j", to avoid shadowing another local.

2007-02-13  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        configure.ac: Add LOCALEDIR definition to CFLAGS only once.
        I noticed that there were two identical lines in configure.ac,
        adding the same LOCALEDIR definition to CFLAGS.
        This change removes the latter.

        * configure.ac: Add LOCALEDIR definition to CFLAGS only once.

2007-02-12  Riccardo Setti  <giskard@piton.asimov.bot>

        Added a pkgconfig file for libparted, adjusted Makefile.am and configure.ac for reflect the canges
                modified:   Makefile.am
                modified:   configure.ac
                new file:   libparted.pc.in

2007-01-30  Debarshi Ray  <rishi@gnu.org>

        Renaming PARTITION_EXT to PARTITION_DOS_EXT in MSDOS disk-label code, to maintain similarity with Linux v2.6.18.2

2007-01-17  Debarshi Ray  <rishi@gnu.org>

        Enable support for swsusp partitions, and the ability to differentiate between old and new versions of linux-swap partitions. Changed the swap_init signature and removed extra ped_geometry_read from _swap*_open.

2007-01-16  Debarshi Ray  <rishi@gnu.org>

        Synchronize the linux-swap (new version) header according to the Linux kernel sources.

        cb6ca73be06f360308e6a2fccb7142ed8175af29 continued.

2007-01-15  Debarshi Ray  <rishi@gnu.org>

        Add stdint.h stdlib.h & string.h to include/parted/parted.h and remove them from other files.

2007-01-14  Debarshi Ray  <rishi@gnu.org>

        Synchronise manual page and --help documentation.

2007-01-12  David Cantrell  <dcantrel@mortise.boston.redhat.com>

        Updated i18n information.

        Add ped_device_cache_remove() prototype. (cherry picked from commit cb53b87ab2f779633f152f478c7f8c99c2fd1817)

        Only call _disk_warn_loss(disk) in do_mklabel() if disk is not NULL.  Fixes a segfault when initializing new volumes. (cherry picked from commit 70e3bf5e7818df49a11e203ac8519e037818d592)

        Fix a segfault in ped_assert() where the wrong pointer is freed in the backtrace. (cherry picked from commit 63f7b33b352d0d699efeb1095340ed6139c49e3b)

        Add the ped_device_cache_remove() function to remove a device from the cache. (cherry picked from commit 5fb6658d124050a9dc27a87f2e1c3ffd3d1ad7c0)

        Updated the AUTHORS file. (cherry picked from commit 7ab32d423cc43a5e9372a7dc000feb183db9a89a)

2007-01-11  Debarshi Ray  <rishi@gnu.org>

        Rectify segmentation fault caused by 9e05418de3477666b0709f5d1996149febd33100

        Update doc/C/parted.8 to document --list.

2007-01-06  Otavio Salvador  <otavio@debian.org>

        parted/parted.c: Destroy all objects before return when called with --list or --all option.

2007-01-05  Anant Narayanan  <anant@kix.in>

        Dump readline history on crash

2006-12-14  Anant Narayanan  <anant@kix.in>

        Loosen requirement for the 'check' library.

2006-12-14  Debarshi Ray  <rishi@gnu.org>

        Update AUTHORS.

2006-12-13  Leslie P. Polzer  <polzer@gnu.org>

        added scripts/update-po

2006-12-12  David Cantrell  <dcantrel@mortise.boston.redhat.com>

        Merge branches 'master' and 'master' of git+ssh://dcantrell-guest@git.debian.org/git/parted/parted

2006-12-11  Leslie P. Polzer  <polzer@gnu.org>

        Updated translations.

2006-12-11  Debarshi Ray  <rishi@gnu.org>

        Alias 'print list' with 'print all'.

2006-12-11  Otavio Salvador  <otavio@ossystems.com.br>

        Include a disk probing test

        If CHECK is installed on configure time, build our unittest framework

        Add CHECK unittext library detection to Autoconf script

2006-12-09  Leslie P. Polzer  <polzer@gnu.org>

        Release script: cannot call "return" from top level;  replaced with "exit".

2006-12-08  Debarshi Ray  <rishi@gnu.org>

        Zero sized device is shown as 0.00B and not -0.00kB.

2006-12-06  Otavio Salvador  <otavio@debian.org>

        libparted/exception.c: Dynamically allow space of exception message.

        Output a backtrace when catching SEGV_MAPERR or a general SIGSEGV signals.

2006-12-06  Debarshi Ray  <rishi@gnu.org>

        Implement 'print devices'.

2006-12-05  Benno Schulenberg  <bensberg@justemail.net>

        Translate the copyright message, and hard wrap it

2006-12-05  Otavio Salvador  <otavio@debian.org>

        libparted/disk.c: Standarize the way we walk throught the disk types overall the code

2006-12-05  Otavio Salvador  <otavio@debian.org>

        Revert "Add check unittest support and a initial test for a resizing bug."
        This code wasn't ready for commit yet.

        This reverts commit ba43cb6ff7bb1d945062e25b94efecb1b84c0c33.

2006-12-05  Otavio Salvador  <otavio@debian.org>

        parted/parted.c: Remove useless line break

2006-12-04  Otavio Salvador  <otavio@ossystems.com.br>

        Add check unittest support and a initial test for a resizing bug.

2006-12-03  David Cantrell  <dcantrel@mortise.boston.redhat.com>

        Fix the upload script to correctly reference the sig files.

        Remove ChangeLog, doc/mdate-sh, and doc/texinfo.tex since they are unmanaged files and get generated automatically at release time.

        Generate ChangeLog before running the autogen tools because we need a file called 'ChangeLog' to exist when running those tools.

        Pass git changelog through 'fold -s' to wrap long lines.

        Added the --enable-selinux switch to the configure script.  If set, it adds -lselinux and -lsepol to the list of libraries to link libparted with.  Bumped the version number to 1.9.9 since this is the edge branch.

        Rename all old ChangeLog files to ChangeLog.0.  Added code to the tarball_upload.sh script to generate a toplevel ChangeLog from the git changelog.

2006-12-02  Leslie P. Polzer  <polzer@gnu.org>

        Updated URL of static parted in docs.

2006-12-02  Anant Narayanan  <anant@kix.in>

        Make parted ignore '-i' option instead of failing

        Support machine parseable output.

2006-11-30  Debarshi Ray  <rishi@gnu.org>

        Cleanup _partition_warn_busy, _disk_warn_busy, _partition_warn_loss and _disk_warn_loss.

2006-11-28  Otavio Salvador  <otavio@debian.org>

        Proper print when there're no extended partitions, but partition names (patch from Sven Luther)

        libparted/arch/linux.c: initialize task point to please GCC

        Don't enforce libselinux and libsepol linking when using device-mapper support

2006-11-28  Debarshi Ray  <rishi@gnu.org>

        Warn before mklabel and mkfs.

        Make mktable aliased to mklabel.

2006-11-27  Otavio Salvador  <otavio@debian.org>

        Fix 'print' command help
        'print' command help was missing a new line at end and then breaking
        the help printing.

2006-11-27  Leslie P. Polzer  <polzer@gnu.org>

        Updated translations.

2006-11-26  Otavio Salvador  <otavio@debian.org>

        Remove doc/mdate-sh and doc/texinfo.tex since they are included when we run autogen.sh

2006-11-23  Anant Narayanan  <anant@kix.in>

        Introduce the -list command-line switch, patch by Debarshi Ray

2006-11-22  Otavio Salvador  <otavio@debian.org>

        Avoid warning about user permissions when using --version

        parted/parted.c: Remove redeclaration of current_dev fixing a compilation error

        Readd the 'return 0;' to please GCC
        The commit d000de8f062ce070d5310f164ebf4f5ed26fcad0 included a
        compilation warning that makes sense when Parted is built without
        debugging. To solve the warning and ensure that when running without
        debugging we return a sinsible value I've reverted
        d000de8f062ce070d5310f164ebf4f5ed26fcad0 change and added a nice
        comment to avoid misunderstandings again.

2006-11-22  Anant  <anant@theghost.(none)>

        Fix loop in print_all, thanks to Debarshi Ray for the patch.

2006-11-20  Otavio Salvador  <otavio@debian.org>

        Remove useless 'return 0;' call
        Since PED_ASSERT will always be run, the return 0 is useless, hence
        removed.

        Remove useless semicolon from PED_ASSERT calls

2006-11-20  David Cantrell  <dcantrel@mortise.boston.redhat.com>

        Generate SHA-1 digests of the archive files and upload those along with the actual archive files.

2006-11-20  Otavio Salvador  <otavio@debian.org>

        Rework backtrace support
        While doing a deeply check about the backtrace support I found that
        -rdynamic is useless on CFLAGS and my previous change was wrong since
        it wasn't avoiding -rdynamic on LFLAGS if the running system missed
        the execinfo.h support. That would probably cause a build error on
        some systems.

2006-11-17  David Cantrell  <dcantrell@redhat.com>

        Final changes for parted-1.8.0
        git-svn-id: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/parted/upstream/trunk@896 2d424fd7-7fe2-0310-af74-8bc65edeb173

2006-11-11  Otavio Salvador  <otavio@debian.org>

        Apply changes done on Darcs and suitable for release on 1.8 final:
        Sat Nov 11 18:09:17 BRST 2006  Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org>
          * Enable backtrace just if it's has support on libc.

        Sat Nov 11 17:41:12 BRST 2006  Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org>
          * Add -rdynamic to LDFLAGS.

        Sat Nov 11 17:40:19 BRST 2006  Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org>
          * Add -rdynamic to CFLAGS

        Sat Nov 11 17:38:11 BRST 2006  Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org>
          * Print backtrace stack when throwing an exception



        git-svn-id: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/parted/upstream/trunk@895 2d424fd7-7fe2-0310-af74-8bc65edeb173

2006-11-11  Otavio Salvador  <otavio@debian.org>

        Remove files that can be generated.
        git-svn-id: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/parted/upstream/trunk@894 2d424fd7-7fe2-0310-af74-8bc65edeb173

2006-11-11  Otavio Salvador  <otavio@debian.org>

        Changes done on darcs repository suitable for 1.8 release:
        Sat Nov 11 10:41:54 BRST 2006  Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org>
          * Break lines bigger then 80 columns.

        Sat Nov 11 02:02:26 BRST 2006  Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org>
          * Fix autogen.sh script to call autopoint with -f


        git-svn-id: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/parted/upstream/trunk@892 2d424fd7-7fe2-0310-af74-8bc65edeb173

2006-11-10  Otavio Salvador  <otavio@debian.org>

        Changes done on darcs repository suitable for 1.8 release:
        Fri Nov 10 23:19:15 BRST 2006  Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org>
          * Code clean-up on registering and unregistering of disks

                * libparted/disk.c (ped_register_disk_type, ped_unregister_disk_type):
                Clean-up. Patch sent by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray <debarshi.ray@gmail.com>.

        Fri Nov 10 23:14:58 BRST 2006  Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org>
          * Fix filesystem unregistering

                * libparted/filesys.c (ped_file_system_type_unregister): Handle
                instances where fs_types == NULL and the given fs_type is not in
                the list of registered file-system types. Some code clean-up.
                Patch sent by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray <debarshi.ray@gmail.com>.


        git-svn-id: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/parted/upstream/trunk@891 2d424fd7-7fe2-0310-af74-8bc65edeb173

2006-11-10  Otavio Salvador  <otavio@debian.org>

        Changes done on darcs repository suitable for 1.8 release:
        Wed Nov  8 20:40:43 BRST 2006  Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org>
          * Merge libparted/ChangeLog conflict caused by Subversion syncing

        Wed Nov  8 21:15:58 BRST 2006  Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org>
          * doc/C/parted.8: small documentation simplification

        Wed Nov  8 20:09:03 BRST 2006  Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org>
          * libparted/fs/hfs/probe.c: Fix a segmentation fault when running without debug



        git-svn-id: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/parted/upstream/trunk@890 2d424fd7-7fe2-0310-af74-8bc65edeb173

2006-11-05  David Cantrell  <dcantrell@redhat.com>

        Updates for parted-1.8.0rc3
        git-svn-id: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/parted/upstream/trunk@882 2d424fd7-7fe2-0310-af74-8bc65edeb173

           * arch/linux.c: Define PROC_DEVICES_BUFSIZ for reading /proc/devices,    set to 16384.
        git-svn-id: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/parted/upstream/trunk@881 2d424fd7-7fe2-0310-af74-8bc65edeb173

2006-11-02  David Cantrell  <dcantrell@redhat.com>

           * labels/mac.c (_rawpart_is_boot): Check for Apple_Boot type.    * labels/mac.c (_rawpart_analyse): Don't check the data_region_length    against the part->geom.length for boot partitions.
        git-svn-id: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/parted/upstream/trunk@880 2d424fd7-7fe2-0310-af74-8bc65edeb173

2006-10-31  David Cantrell  <dcantrell@redhat.com>

        2048 -> 1024
        git-svn-id: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/parted/upstream/trunk@871 2d424fd7-7fe2-0310-af74-8bc65edeb173

                * device.c (canonicalize_file_name): calloc should use sizeof(char)         instead of 1 (from Debarshi Ray).         * arch/linux.c (readFD): Use a 1KB buffer to read /proc/devices         rather than a 16KB buffer.  Init filesize to zero at declaration.         Combine error and EOF check for read() loop.  Memory cleanups at         function exit.  Use malloc() instead of calloc() (from Debarshi         Ray).         * arch/linux.c (_is_dm_major): Test expression and loop cleanups         (from Debarshi Ray).
        git-svn-id: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/parted/upstream/trunk@870 2d424fd7-7fe2-0310-af74-8bc65edeb173

                * parted.c (do_print): Add device-mapper type to the transport type         list (from Debarshi Ray).
        git-svn-id: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/parted/upstream/trunk@869 2d424fd7-7fe2-0310-af74-8bc65edeb173

2006-10-26  David Cantrell  <dcantrell@redhat.com>

                * arch/linux.c: Go to error_free_arch_specific rather than         error_free_dev for init_generic() failure on PED_DEVICE_UBD.
        git-svn-id: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/parted/upstream/trunk@866 2d424fd7-7fe2-0310-af74-8bc65edeb173

        Line length fixes.
        git-svn-id: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/parted/upstream/trunk@865 2d424fd7-7fe2-0310-af74-8bc65edeb173

2006-10-11  David Cantrell  <dcantrell@redhat.com>

        Need the filename: directive as well.
        git-svn-id: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/parted/upstream/trunk@858 2d424fd7-7fe2-0310-af74-8bc65edeb173

        Set directive file version to 1.1.
        git-svn-id: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/parted/upstream/trunk@855 2d424fd7-7fe2-0310-af74-8bc65edeb173

        Conditionalize the device-mapper stuff.
        git-svn-id: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/parted/upstream/trunk@852 2d424fd7-7fe2-0310-af74-8bc65edeb173

        i18n updates.
        git-svn-id: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/parted/upstream/trunk@850 2d424fd7-7fe2-0310-af74-8bc65edeb173

        Bump version.
        git-svn-id: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/parted/upstream/trunk@849 2d424fd7-7fe2-0310-af74-8bc65edeb173

        Updates for 1.8.0rc2 release.
        git-svn-id: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/parted/upstream/trunk@848 2d424fd7-7fe2-0310-af74-8bc65edeb173

        Added /dev/mapper device support (patch from Peter Jones).
        git-svn-id: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/parted/upstream/trunk@847 2d424fd7-7fe2-0310-af74-8bc65edeb173

2006-10-09  David Cantrell  <dcantrell@redhat.com>

           * cs/geom.c (ped_geometry_read): Do not throw PED_EXCEPTION_ERROR here    if accessing sectors outside of partition boundary. Returning false    causes ped_geometry_check() to shift correctly anyway.  This occurs    on current Mac disklabels, among other systems.
        git-svn-id: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/parted/upstream/trunk@845 2d424fd7-7fe2-0310-af74-8bc65edeb173

           * disk.c (ped_unregister_disk_type): Handle instances where disk_types    == NULL and the given type is not in the list of registered disk types    (from Debarshi Ray).
        git-svn-id: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/parted/upstream/trunk@844 2d424fd7-7fe2-0310-af74-8bc65edeb173

               * parted.c (do_print): Define transport type list and display disk        model type and transport type (from Debarshi Ray).
        git-svn-id: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/parted/upstream/trunk@843 2d424fd7-7fe2-0310-af74-8bc65edeb173

        Forgot changelog notice.
        git-svn-id: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/parted/upstream/trunk@842 2d424fd7-7fe2-0310-af74-8bc65edeb173

        Updated i18n files.
        git-svn-id: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/parted/upstream/trunk@841 2d424fd7-7fe2-0310-af74-8bc65edeb173

2006-10-06  David Cantrell  <dcantrell@redhat.com>

           * arch/linux.c: Change __GNU_SOURCE define to _GNU_SOURCE (only one    underscore at the beginning). Fixes problem with certain systems    not getting posix_memalign() defined during compilation.
        git-svn-id: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/parted/upstream/trunk@840 2d424fd7-7fe2-0310-af74-8bc65edeb173

           * scripts/release/tarball_upload.sh: Since v1.0 directive files will    no longer be supported by ftp-upload.gnu.org after 2006, modified the    upload script to use the v1.1 format.
        git-svn-id: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/parted/upstream/trunk@839 2d424fd7-7fe2-0310-af74-8bc65edeb173

           * scripts/release/tarball_upload.sh: Support the -a (or --alpha) switch    on the tarball upload script. This switch will upload the release to    alpha.gnu.org rather than ftp.gnu.org.
        git-svn-id: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/parted/upstream/trunk@838 2d424fd7-7fe2-0310-af74-8bc65edeb173

2006-09-15  David Cantrell  <dcantrell@redhat.com>

        Fix execution of autogen.sh and configure.
        git-svn-id: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/parted/upstream/trunk@836 2d424fd7-7fe2-0310-af74-8bc65edeb173

        These (upx and statifier) are not called from anywhere.
        git-svn-id: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/parted/upstream/trunk@835 2d424fd7-7fe2-0310-af74-8bc65edeb173

        Updated for parted-1.8.0rc1.
        git-svn-id: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/parted/upstream/trunk@834 2d424fd7-7fe2-0310-af74-8bc65edeb173

               * doc/po4a.mk: Removed fake* stuff. Fixed all-local target so you don't        end up in an infinite make loop trying to make '*'. Fixed the remove        target as well.
        git-svn-id: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/parted/upstream/trunk@833 2d424fd7-7fe2-0310-af74-8bc65edeb173

        Tabs for the updatepo target.
        git-svn-id: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/parted/upstream/trunk@832 2d424fd7-7fe2-0310-af74-8bc65edeb173

        Add vtoc.h and fdasd.h to the list.
        git-svn-id: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/parted/upstream/trunk@831 2d424fd7-7fe2-0310-af74-8bc65edeb173

        Removed the extra double quote at the end of line 6 in partprobe.8.pt_BR.po.  Other updates for i18n.
        git-svn-id: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/parted/upstream/trunk@830 2d424fd7-7fe2-0310-af74-8bc65edeb173

        Added a script to clean the tree after running 'make distclean'.  Gets it back to the checked-out state from svn.
        git-svn-id: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/parted/upstream/trunk@829 2d424fd7-7fe2-0310-af74-8bc65edeb173

        i18n updates for parted-1.8.0.
        git-svn-id: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/parted/upstream/trunk@828 2d424fd7-7fe2-0310-af74-8bc65edeb173

        Removed *.h files from the Makefile.
        git-svn-id: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/parted/upstream/trunk@827 2d424fd7-7fe2-0310-af74-8bc65edeb173

        i18n updates for parted-1.8.0.
        git-svn-id: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/parted/upstream/trunk@826 2d424fd7-7fe2-0310-af74-8bc65edeb173

        Removed from version control.
        git-svn-id: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/parted/upstream/trunk@825 2d424fd7-7fe2-0310-af74-8bc65edeb173

        i18n updates for parted-1.8.0.
        git-svn-id: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/parted/upstream/trunk@824 2d424fd7-7fe2-0310-af74-8bc65edeb173

        Removed from version control.
        git-svn-id: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/parted/upstream/trunk@823 2d424fd7-7fe2-0310-af74-8bc65edeb173

        Updated for version 1.8.0rc1.
        git-svn-id: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/parted/upstream/trunk@822 2d424fd7-7fe2-0310-af74-8bc65edeb173

2006-09-14  David Cantrell  <dcantrell@redhat.com>

               * labels/mac.c (mac_partition_new): memset() inits everything to        zero, no need to do it manually.
               * labels/mac.c (mac_partition_set_flag): Prevent LVM and RAID partition
               types from corrupting the partition table.

               * arch/linux.c (_blkpg_add_partition): Set linux_part.length based on
               whether or not this partition is PED_PARTITION_EXTENDED or not.

               * arch/linux.c (_disk_sync_part_table): Remove the check and continue
               for PED_PARTITION_EXTENDED types.


        git-svn-id: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/parted/upstream/trunk@821 2d424fd7-7fe2-0310-af74-8bc65edeb173

2006-09-14  Anant Narayanan  <anant@kix.in>

        Fix ChangeLog
        git-svn-id: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/parted/upstream/trunk@820 2d424fd7-7fe2-0310-af74-8bc65edeb173

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