RHBA-2008:0322 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated parted packages that fix various bugs are now available.

Description

The GNU Parted program allows you to create, destroy, resize, move, and
copy hard disk partitions. Parted can be used for creating space for new
operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks.

These updated parted packages provide the following fixes:

• partition flags that are specific to certain partition table types are

now clearly documented.

• the man page for parted has been updated with information about partition

resize limitations.

• the file libparted.a is now correctly included in the parted-devel package.
• parted is now able to understand and correctly print out XVD (Xen Virtual

Device) partition labels.

• using the '-s' (script) option with the parted commands "mkfs" or

"mklabel" no longer causes parted to exit immediately with a warning
message, rendering the 'script' option useless.

• using parted on PPC architecture with a GPT labelled disk connected is

now working.

Users are advised to upgrade to these updated parted packages, which
resolve these issues.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 242771 - Parted man page should list label types for flags
• BZ - 366971 - parted print command crashes with Xen xvd disks
• BZ - 367101 - document parted resize limitations in man page
• BZ - 430571 - libparted.a is missing from parted-devel
• BZ - 433681 - Assertion (last_usable_if_grown > first_usable) at gpt.c:688 in function _parse_header() failed.

CVEs

(none)

References

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