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+1.0.6 (1/13/2021):
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+------------------
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+
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+- Fixed bug that could cause segfault if GPT header claimed partition
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+ entries are oversized. See:
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+ https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-0256
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+
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+- Fixed bug that could cause a crash if a badly-formatted MBR disk was
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+ read. See:
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+ https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-0308
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+
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+- Renamed the partition type "Freedesktop $BOOT" to "XBOOTLDR partition".
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+
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+- Added several more Freedesktop partition table type codes (0x8312 through
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+ 0x831C).
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+
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+- Fixed type code definition in diskio-unix.cc that prevented 32-bit builds
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+ from correctly handling disks over 4 TiB in size.
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+
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+- Minor tweaks to get the software to compile on FreeBSD; that seems to have
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+ fallen into disrepair.
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+
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+1.0.5 (2/17/2020):
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+------------------
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+
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+- Fixed typos and minor formatting issues in man pages
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+
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+- Changed number of columns in type code output ("sgdisk -L" and equivalents
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+ in gdisk and cgdisk) from 3 to 2, since some descriptions are long enough
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+ that they're ambiguous with three columns.
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+
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+- Makefile change: Add $(LDLIBS) support to enable clean static builds (for
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+ libintl).
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+
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+- You can now put the 0xEE partition last in a hybrid MBR using sgdisk.
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+ (Previously, this was possible with gdisk but not with sgdisk.) See the
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+ sgdisk man page for details.
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+
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+- Added numerous type codes for Container Linux, Veracrypt, and
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+ Freedesktop.org's Discoverable Partitions Specification
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+
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+- Partition type name searches are now case-insensitive.
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+
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+- It's now possible to quit out of partition type name searches by typing
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+ "q".
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+
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+- When changing a partition type code, the default is now the current
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+ type code, not a platform-specific type code.
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+
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+- The UEFI GPT fdisk project
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+ (https://sourceforge.net/projects/uefigptfdisk/) hasn't been updated since
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+ 2016, and is now broken; binaries don't compile with modern GCC
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+ toolchains, and even when dropping back to Ubuntu 14.04, which worked for
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+ GPT fdisk 1.0.4, the resulting binary hangs on launch. Therefore, I'm
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+ dropping support for the EFI build of gdisk, at least unless and until
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+ UEFI GPT fdisk is fixed.
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+
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+- Apple no longer supports building i386 or "fat" binaries in XCode (or if
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+ they do, they're making it hard), so I've removed that support. GPT fdisk
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+ macOS binaries are now x86-64 only. Similarly, building now seems to
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+ require macOS 10.9 or later, so that's now the minimum macOS version. I've
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+ also re-built my Mac build environment and tweaked Makefile.mac
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+ appropriately.
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+
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+1.0.4 (7/5/2018):
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+-----------------
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+
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+- Added some explicit copy constructors and made some other tweaks to avoid
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+ compiler warnings.
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+
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+- The macOS binary for sgdisk is now a pure 64-bit build; I'm no longer
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+ supporting 32-bit builds of sgdisk. The gdisk and cgdisk binaries remain
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+ "fat" 32-/64-bit builds. The reason for dropping the 32-bit support from
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+ sgdisk is that I've re-built my macOS development system, and I had
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+ trouble building a "fat" binary with the fresh install of the popt
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+ libraries upon which sgdisk relies. 32-bit support for the other binaries
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+ is now officially deprecated, too.
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+
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+- Added search feature to partition type list functions ("L" on main menu of
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+ gdisk and "L" when entered in response to the "Hex code or GUID" prompt in
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+ gdisk and sgdisk). This feature filters the partition type list to those
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+ which include the search term in their GPT fdisk descriptions. For
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+ instance, typing "Linux" shows only partitions with "Linux" in their
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+ descriptions. Note that the search/filter is case-sensitive. If <Enter> is
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+ pressed, no filter is applied.
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+
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+- Change to Makefile.mac to use standard libncurses rather than a 3rd-party
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+ version; should help with cgdisk compatibility.
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+
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+- Minor bug fix in alignment of internal data structures.
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+
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+- Minor bug fix in handling of damaged disks. Also, GPT fdisk now reports
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+ more information on what data structures are damaged when a damaged disk
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+ is detected.
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+
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+- Added type code for Apple APFS (7C3457EF-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC,
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+ 0xaf0a).
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+
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+- Added type code for Atari TOS basic data (0xa200,
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+ 734E5AFE-F61A-11E6-BC64-92361F002671).
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+
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+- Added type codes for Linux dm-crypt (0x8308,
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+ 7FFEC5C9-2D00-49B7-8941-3EA10A5586B7) and LUKS (0x8309,
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+ CA7D7CCB-63ED-4C53-861C-1742536059CC) partitions.
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+
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+- Added 18 Ceph partition type codes.
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+
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+- Added 52 (yes, 52!) Android partition type codes.
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+
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+- Changed "Creating new GPT entries" message to read "Creating new
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+ GPT entries in memory" because the latter is clearer, particularly when
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+ using sgdisk with a non-destructive option, like "-p".
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+
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+1.0.3 (7/27/2017):
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+------------------
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+
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+- Fixed a major bug that caused invalid partition tables to be generated
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+ when creating a new partition table (that is, partitioning a blank disk or
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+ converting from MBR).
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+
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+1.0.2 (7/26/2017):
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+------------------
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+
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+- On Linux, the p/-p/--print command now shows the disk's model name, as
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+ reported in /sys/block/sda/device/model (or equivalent filenames for other
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+ disks). This feature does not yet work on other platforms, on which the
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+ model name line is omitted from the output. This line is also not shown
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+ when accessing disk image files, even on Linux.
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+
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+- GPT fdisk can now report both the physical and logical sector sizes of
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+ disks, but only on 2.6.32 and later Linux kernels. The verify feature now
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+ uses the larger of the set alignment and physical/logical block sizes for
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+ testing alignment, and setting alignment to something other than an exact
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+ multiple of the ratio of the physical to logical block size results in a
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+ warning.
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+
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+- Addition of new verification checks, mostly (but not exclusively) related
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+ to the new j/-j/--move-main-table option.
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+
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+- Added new option: 'j' on the experts' menu in gdisk;
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+ '-j/--move-main-table={sector}' in sgdisk. This option enables relocating
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+ the main partition table from sector 2 (the default location) to somewhere
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+ else on the disk. The main reason I know of to do this is if the disk is
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+ to be used with a system-on-chip (SoC) computer, some of which require the
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+ boot loader to be located at sector 2. If you pass this option the default
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+ value of 2, it has the effect of reducing the padding placed between the
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+ main partition table and the first usable sector value created by the
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+ Linux fdisk tool.
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+
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+- Updated man pages with new recommendations for ESP and BIOS Boot Partition
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+ sizes.
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+
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+- Added four type codes (AF06 through AF09) for Apple SoftRAID (Status,
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+ Scratch, Volume, and Cache).
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+
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+- Added two type codes for the Open Network Install Environment (ONIE):
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+ 0xe100 (7412F7D5-A156-4B13-81DC-867174929325) and 0xe101
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+ (D4E6E2CD-4469-46F3-B5CB-1BFF57AFC149).
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+
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+- Added thirteen type codes for Android partitions (0xa000 through
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+ 0xa00c).
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+
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+- Added type code for QNX6 (aka QNX Power-Safe) filesystem: 0xb300, for
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+ CEF5A9AD-73BC-4601-89F3-CDEEEEE321A1.
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+
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+- Removed stray debug message ("REALLY setting name!") from sgdisk,
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+ when setting new name via -c option.
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+
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+1.0.1 (10/18/2015):
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+-------------------
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+
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+- Created uninstall-fixparts and uninstall-gdisk scripts for OS X. As the
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+ names imply, these scripts remove the files installed by the fixparts and
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+ gdisk packages, respectively.
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+
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+- Fixed bug that caused -N/--largest-new option to sgdisk to fail when
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+ fed a "0" option.
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+
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+- Fixed bug that caused input glitches in EFI version of gdisk.
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+
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+- Fixed bug that caused sgdisk to not return an appropriate error code
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+ when it encountered a write error when saving changes.
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+
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+- Fixed bug that caused cgdisk's "Info" display to under-report the
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+ partition's size by one sector.
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+
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+- OS X 10.11 includes new security features that prevent GPT fdisk from
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+ working unless these features are disabled. To do so, you must boot to a
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+ Recovery HD system, open a Terminal, type "csrutil disable", and reboot
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+ into the normal system. You can re-enable the security features by
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+ repeating the process, but specify "enable" rather than "disable". I've
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+ added a message pointing users to a Web page explaining how to disable
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+ this feature when gdisk detects that it can't write to the disk under OS
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+ X. If you know of a way around this (including code changes to gdisk),
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+ please contact me.
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+
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+- I've updated the OS X installation location from the Unix-standard
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+ /usr/sbin (and related locations for documentation) to /usr/local/bin
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+ (and related locations for documentation). This is Just Plain Crazy from
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+ a Unix point of view, but Apple has to be Apple and do things just a
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+ little bit differently.
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+
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+- I've updated my OS X environment to OS X 10.11 and LLVM 7.0.0. This has
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+ also meant installing fresh versions of popt and ncurses from MacPorts,
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+ which may require upgrading popt to get sgdisk working on some systems.
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+ (gdisk, cgdisk, and fixparts should continue to work normally on all
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+ systems.) The OS X binaries are now "fat" (32- and 64-bit) versions,
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+ which should have no noticeable effect unless you have a Mac with broken
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+ 32-bit support, in which case the binaries will now work.
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+
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+- Changed the default name of 0xab00 partitions from "Apple boot" to
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+ "Recovery HD", since the latter is the name that Apple gives these
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+ partitions. Also, I discovered through painful experience that OS X
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+ flakes out and won't boot if the name is something other than "Recovery
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+ HD", so it really has to have the right name!
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+
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+- Changed the OpenBSD type codes (0xa600 and 0xa601): 0xa600 is now
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+ 824CC7A0-36A8-11E3-890A-952519AD3F61 (OpenBSD disklabel) and 0xa601 is
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+ now gone. Previously, 0xa600 was 516E7CB4-6ECF-11D6-8FF8-00022D09712B, a
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+ duplicate of the FreeBSD disklabel, and 0xa601 was
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+ 824CC7A0-36A8-11E3-890A-952519AD3F61. OpenBSD is now officially
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+ supporting 824CC7A0-36A8-11E3-890A-952519AD3F61 as a disklabel type,
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+ though. It's unclear what, if anything, OpenBSD will use for
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+ non-disklabel type codes at the moment.
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+
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+- Added GUID 0311FC50-01CA-4725-AD77-9ADBB20ACE98 (0xbc00) for
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+ Acronis Secure Zone backup partitions.
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+
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+- Fixed bug that caused random crashes on ppc64el systems (and perhaps
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+ others).
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+
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+- Added GUID C91818F9-8025-47AF-89D2-F030D7000C2C (0x3900) for Plan 9.
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+
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+- Added GUID 69DAD710-2CE4-4E3C-B16C-21A1D49ABED3 (0x8307) for 32-bit ARM
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+ Linux root (/) partition, as per the Freedesktop.org Discoverable
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+ Partition Spec
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+ (http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec/).
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+
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+- Edited man pages to clarify that default alignment is to 1MiB boundaries;
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+ this translates to 2048 sectors on disks with 512-byte sectors, but it
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+ will be something else on disks with other sector sizes.
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+
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+- Changed behavior of -z/--zap and -Z/--zap-all options to sgdisk so that
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+ if a subsequent command causes changes, they'll be written to disk.
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+ Previously, doing something like "sgdisk --zap-all --clear /dev/sdd"
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+ would wipe the disk but not create a partition table; to create a blank
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+ table you'd need to do "sgdisk --zap-all --clear --mbrtogpt /dev/sdd",
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+ which is a bit odd and counter-intuitive, to the point of arguably being
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+ a bug.
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+
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+1.0.0 (3/16/2015):
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+------------------
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+
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+- I'm now building a binary package of gdisk_x64.efi, using the UEFI GPT
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+ fdisk package.
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+
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+- Added partition type for OpenBSD data
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+ (824CC7A0-36A8-11E3-890A-952519AD3F61/0xa601). Also mapped 0xa600 to the
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+ FreeBSD disklabel type code (516E7CB4-6ECF-11D6-8FF8-00022D09712B). I'm
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+ not sure that's 100% correct, but since I can't find references to an
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+ OpenBSD disklabel GPT type code, it seems the best choice at the moment.
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+
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+- Added partition type for Windows Storage Spaces
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+ (E75CAF8F-F680-4CEE-AFA3-B001E56EFC2D/0x4202)
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+
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+- Added -O/--print-mbr option to sgdisk, enabling easier display of MBR
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+ data structures without invoking gdisk.
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+
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+- Updated warning message: "EBR describes a logical partition" now reads
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+ "EBR points to an EBR," which is more technically correct.
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+
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+- Altered warning displayed when run from Windows on non-GPT disk, because
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+ Windows on UEFI-based systems is becoming more common.
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+
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+- Fixed spurious "1" return value in gdisk.
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+
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+- Small code changes to support compilation as EFI application with the
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+ UEFI GPT fdisk library
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+ (http://sourceforge.net/projects/uefigptfdisk/?source=directory)
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+
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+- Added new partition type codes for Ceph
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+ (https://github.com/ceph/ceph/blob/9bcc42a3e6b08521694b5c0228b2c6ed7b3d312e/src/ceph-disk#L76-L81):
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+ 4FBD7E29-9D25-41B8-AFD0-062C0CEFF05D/0xf800 (Ceph OSD),
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+ 4FBD7E29-9D25-41B8-AFD0-5EC00CEFF05D/0xf801 (Ceph dm-crypt OSD),
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+ 45B0969E-9B03-4F30-B4C6-B4B80CEFF106/0xf802 (Ceph journal),
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+ 45B0969E-9B03-4F30-B4C6-5EC00CEFF106/0xf803 (Ceph dm-crypt journal),
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+ 89C57F98-2FE5-4DC0-89C1-F3AD0CEFF2BE/0xf804 (Ceph disk in creation), and
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+ 89C57F98-2FE5-4DC0-89C1-5EC00CEFF2BE/0xf805 (Ceph dm-crypt disk in
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+ creation)
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+
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+- Added new partition type codes from
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+ http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec/:
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+ 44479540-F297-41B2-9AF7-D131D5F0458A/0x8303 (Linux / on x86),
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+ 4F68BCE3-E8CD-4DB1-96E7-FBCAF984B709/0x8304 (Linux / on x86-64),
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+ B921B045-1DF0-41C3-AF44-4C6F280D3FAE/0x8305 (Linux / on 64-bit ARM),
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+ 3B8F8425-20E0-4F3B-907F-1A25A76F98E8/0x8306 (Linux /srv).
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+
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+0.8.10 (3/2/2014):
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+------------------
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+
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+- Added feature to sgdisk's -A/--attributes, -c/--change-name,
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+ -t/--typecode, and -u/--partition-guid commands: If a -n/--new option
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+ with "0" as the partition number precedes these options on the command
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+ line, passin "0" as the partition number to the following options causes
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+ them to use the newly-created partition. For instance, "sgdisk -n
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+ 0:0:+550M -t 0:EF00 /dev/sda" creates a new partition with a type code of
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+ EF00. (Previous versions would ignore the "-t 0:EF00" option.)
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+
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+- Fixed bug that caused incorrect partition number to be displayed by
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+ sgdisk in error messages when the user specified a non-existent partition
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+ for inclusion in a hybrid MBR or conversion to a conventional MBR.
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+
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+- Fixed new (in 0.8.9) bug that caused a failure to create more than one
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+ hybridized partition when creating a hybrid MBR.
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+
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+- Fixed bug that caused gdisk and sgdisk to create hybridized partitions
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+ that ended at or above the 2^32 sector point with incorrect end values.
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+ The behavior now varies between gdisk and sgdisk: gdisk now creates
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+ hybrid partitions that begin below 2^32 sectors and that are smaller than
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+ 2^32 sectors, since this is technically legal; but gdisk displays a
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+ warning, because some OSes (such as DOS, Windows XP, OS/2, and BeOS)
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+ misbehave with such partitions. AFAIK, only Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows 7
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+ work properly with such partitions. Because of this fact and because
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+ sgdisk is a more automated tool, it's stricter in how it handles things:
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+ It refuses to create a hybrid partition if the original ends at or above
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+ the 2^32 sector mark.
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+
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+0.8.9 (2/17/2014):
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+------------------
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+
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+- Removed dependency on libicu for UTF-16 support.
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+
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+- Fixed spurious "0xEE partition doesn't start on sector 1" warning in
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+ FixParts (and perhaps in other programs under some circumstances).
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+
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+- Added GPT regeneration command to GPT-destruction options ('z' in gdisk,
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+ -z and -Z options to sgdisk). This is done to avoid wiping out data
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+ mid-disk that might not be backup GPT data structures, which could
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|
|
+ otherwise occur if a RAID array was resized in certain ways.
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|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added check for an oversized 0xEE protective partition. The program now
|
|
|
+ auto-repairs this condition on loading if the GPT data seem otherwise
|
|
|
+ valid. This is done because I've been receiving reports of some disks
|
|
|
+ (possibly from some OEM Windows 8 loads) that violate the GPT spec in
|
|
|
+ this way, and gdisk was reporting write errors when saving data.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- If the GPT data seem to be damaged in some way or if the disk seems to
|
|
|
+ be a hybrid MBR and if the MBR partition(s) don't fit on the disk, the
|
|
|
+ verify (v) function now warns of this condition, and writing the disk if
|
|
|
+ it exists also displays a more specific error message about the problem.
|
|
|
+
|
|
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+- Added new type codes (3000, 7412F7D5-A156-4B13-81DC-867174929325 and
|
|
|
+ 3001, D4E6E2CD-4469-46F3-B5CB-1BFF57AFC149) for Open Network Install
|
|
|
+ Environment (ONIE) boot and config partitions, respectively.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added new type ccde (ED01, BFBFAFE7-A34F-448A-9A5B-6213EB736C22), for
|
|
|
+ Lenovo's ESP-like partition.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+0.8.8 (10/14/2013):
|
|
|
+-------------------
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed bug that could cause segfault when passing an invalid partition
|
|
|
+ number to sgdisk's -i/--info command.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added new type code: 933AC7E1-2EB4-4F13-B844-0E14E2AEF915, or gdisk code
|
|
|
+ 8302, for Linux /home partitions. This type code is used by recent
|
|
|
+ versions of systemd to permit /home to be auto-mounted; see
|
|
|
+ http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-gpt-auto-generator.html
|
|
|
+ for details.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added new type code: 9E1A2D38-C612-4316-AA26-8B49521E5A8B, or gdisk code
|
|
|
+ 4100, for PowerPC PReP (PowerPC reference platform) boot.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- The number of partition type codes has grown large enough that it fills
|
|
|
+ an 80x24 display. I've therefore added a pause (with a prompt to hit
|
|
|
+ <Enter>) to display more items after showing 21 lines in gdisk or after
|
|
|
+ the screen has nearly filled with entries in cgdisk. There's no such
|
|
|
+ pause/prompt in sgdisk, though.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fine-tuned verification ('v') check for 0xEE partition that doesn't begin
|
|
|
+ on sector 1: Previously, a disk with multiple 0xEE partitions would
|
|
|
+ always trigger this warning. Now, the warning occurs only if NONE of the
|
|
|
+ 0xEE partitions begins on sector 1.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed hybrid MBR creation on disks larger than 2TiB: Previously, if one
|
|
|
+ opted to create an extra partition to cover unused space following
|
|
|
+ hybridized partitions, gdisk would hang.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added check for an active/bootable 0xEE protective partition to the
|
|
|
+ verify ('v') function. If found, this is not counted as an error, but
|
|
|
+ it is called out to the user, since it can cause some EFIs (such as
|
|
|
+ VirtualBox's EFI) to ignore the disk.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+0.8.7 (7/8/2013):
|
|
|
+-----------------
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Modified Mac version so that it can work on /dev/rdisk* devices as well
|
|
|
+ as /dev/disk* devices. The result is that, when using the /dev/rdisk*
|
|
|
+ devices, the partition table can sometimes be re-read without removing
|
|
|
+ the disk or rebooting.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added "-a" option to cgdisk to use a ">" symbol to the left of the
|
|
|
+ selected partition rather than ncurses highlighting.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Modified "converting MBR to GPT" message to clarify that the conversion
|
|
|
+ is being held in memory, since some people have mistakenly assumed that a
|
|
|
+ "gdisk -l" operation will change an MBR disk to a GPT disk without
|
|
|
+ prompting.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added partition type code for freedesktop.org's proposed $BOOT partition
|
|
|
+ (bc13c2ff-59e6-4262-a352-b275fd6f7172; GPT fdisk type code EA00)
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Adjusted alignment code when using -n or -N in sgdisk to keep the
|
|
|
+ requested partition size (if specified using +###{MGT} terminology)
|
|
|
+ as the requested value rather than relative to the requested start
|
|
|
+ point. This gives you the requested partition size rather than be
|
|
|
+ slightly smaller if sgdisk needs to adjust the start point up a bit and
|
|
|
+ it prevents gaps from appearing between partitions if several are created
|
|
|
+ in succession using automatic placement of the start point.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed small bugs in gdisk_test.sh script.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Removed stray debug message that would appear when reading MBR disks.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added partition type code for Intel Rapid Start partition (GUID
|
|
|
+ D3BFE2DE-3DAF-11DF-BA40-E3A556D89593, code 8400), used by systems that
|
|
|
+ implement Intel's Rapid Start technology. See
|
|
|
+ http://blog.adios.tw/2012/10/funtoo-linux-and-intel-rapid-start.html or
|
|
|
+ http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/26022.html.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added partition type code for Haiku BFS (GUID
|
|
|
+ 42465331-3BA3-10F1-802A-4861696B7521; code EB00).
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+0.8.6 (1/9/2013):
|
|
|
+-----------------
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed a bug that could cause sgdisk to crash when passing a partition
|
|
|
+ number of 0 to the -t option.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added support for building under Solaris.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added a new check to the verification code.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added partition type code for Sony system partition
|
|
|
+ (F4019732-066E-4E12-8273-346C5641494F). I'm not entirely clear what this
|
|
|
+ is used for, but it's appearing on some new Sony computers.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Tweaked hybrid MBR creation options to fix a problem that caused the main
|
|
|
+ 0xEE MBR partition to NOT be created if the user told gdisk to NOT place
|
|
|
+ it at the start of the disk AND IF fewer than three partitions are
|
|
|
+ hybridize AND IF the user opted to create a second protective partition.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Changed default build options for Mac OS X to *NOT* use libicu,
|
|
|
+ since it seems to have broken somewhere along the line. It still
|
|
|
+ works on Linux, though.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added partition type codes for VMWare ESX (FB00, FB01, and FC00).
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+0.8.5 (5/30/2012):
|
|
|
+------------------
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Changed code that writes the partition table so that a disk sync
|
|
|
+ operation occurs even if one or more write operations failed (but not if
|
|
|
+ they all failed). This is intended to work around a bug that a user
|
|
|
+ reported on a Windows system on which the write of the protective MBR
|
|
|
+ failed, although everything else worked. (I suspect anti-virus software
|
|
|
+ may have been blocking write access to the MBR.)
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added type codes for Midnight BSD (0xA580 - 0xA585). I used these codes
|
|
|
+ because Midnight BSD uses the same 0xA5 type code as FreeBSD on MBR
|
|
|
+ disks, so I'm starting Midnight BSD's numbering halfway through the
|
|
|
+ 0xA5## range.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+0.8.4 (3/25/2012):
|
|
|
+------------------
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- REALLY fixed Ctrl+D problems! Now gdisk terminates upon receiving a
|
|
|
+ Ctrl+D. In all previous versions, it could lock itself into a CPU-hogging
|
|
|
+ loop if launched via "sudo" from a terminal window that was then closed
|
|
|
+ or if Ctrl+D was pressed at certain input prompts (for a partition name
|
|
|
+ or sector number, for instance).
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+0.8.3 (3/23/2012):
|
|
|
+------------------
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed compilation problem on GCC 4.7.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Improved handling of Ctrl+D on some systems.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added disk's name to message stating that a disk write was successful.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed bug that caused creation of >2TiB partitions on 32-bit systems to
|
|
|
+ be truncated in sgdisk.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+0.8.2 (1/22/2012):
|
|
|
+------------------
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Adjusted the code to support a number of partitions that's not a multiple
|
|
|
+ of the number of partition table entries that fits in a sector (normally
|
|
|
+ 4 per sector). The program still rounds up, when necessary, when resizing
|
|
|
+ the partition table manually, but not when loading a partition table that
|
|
|
+ contains a peculiar number of partitions. This helps prevent spurious
|
|
|
+ error messages about CRC problems when loading some Solaris partition
|
|
|
+ tables.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed bugs relating to the handling of empty partitions; Solaris's ZFS
|
|
|
+ tools create weird empty partitions that are legal but that gdisk wasn't
|
|
|
+ handling properly. (Specifically, they sometimes have non-zero end
|
|
|
+ points; gdisk assumed empty partitions had end points of 0.)
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed a bug that caused an infinite loop of input prompts if the user
|
|
|
+ pressed Ctrl+D.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Changed gdisk's first-sector input operation to specify a sector number
|
|
|
+ that's properly aligned as the default value. This eliminates the need
|
|
|
+ to alter that value and notify the user of the change when the user
|
|
|
+ hits "Enter" for the default value as the first partition on an empty
|
|
|
+ disk (as well as in some other situations).
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+0.8.1 (10/1/2011):
|
|
|
+------------------
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed bug that could cause FixParts to keep a partition's assignment
|
|
|
+ as logical when FixPart could not actually do so. This could happen
|
|
|
+ when there are no gaps between two logical partitions. Some partitioning
|
|
|
+ tools can create such configurations, but FixParts can't. Such
|
|
|
+ configurations are extremely rare. I've only encountered them when
|
|
|
+ logical partitions are out of order.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added code to detect infinite loops of logical partitions when reading
|
|
|
+ MBR data. When detected, the program now stops reading after the first
|
|
|
+ loop, so no duplicates appear in the partition list.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed bug in partition overlap detection in MBR code.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Changed GPT reading code to use the size encoded in GPT headers to
|
|
|
+ determine how much of the header to use in computing a CRC, with the
|
|
|
+ restriction that the size be equal to or less than the disk's sector
|
|
|
+ size. This should work around problems with libefi in ZFS, which sets the
|
|
|
+ header size to 512 rather than the more common 92. A caveat: If the
|
|
|
+ disk's sector size is larger than the GPTHeader data structure size (512
|
|
|
+ bytes), then the rest of the sector's contents are ignored and replaced
|
|
|
+ with 0 values. This could produce false positives on CRC checks on disks
|
|
|
+ with over-512-byte sector sizes if the header sector is padded with
|
|
|
+ something other than 0 values.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed bug in new (as of 0.8.0) check that main and backup partition
|
|
|
+ tables are identical on big-endian (PowerPC, etc.) hardware.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+0.8.0 (9/10/2011):
|
|
|
+------------------
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added new return option for sgdisk: 8, which means that a replication
|
|
|
+ operation (-R or --replicate) failed. Note that other operations on
|
|
|
+ the same command line might still have succeeded.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added gdisk_test.sh shell script, contributed by Guillaume Delacour.
|
|
|
+ This script tests some common gdisk and sgdisk operations to be sure
|
|
|
+ they're working correctly.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Enable sgdisk's -l (--load-backup) and -o (--clear) options to work
|
|
|
+ even on disks that are damaged. Most other options will still be ignored,
|
|
|
+ though, so if you suspect a disk may be bad and want to use one of these
|
|
|
+ options, you should do so on a line by itself, followed by a separate
|
|
|
+ command to perform other actions (such as adding new partitions).
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added check for mis-matched primary and backup partition tables.
|
|
|
+ A mismatch is reported as a CRC error.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added Apple Core Storage partition type code (hex code AF05, GUID
|
|
|
+ 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC).
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added cgdisk program to the family. This program is a rough workalike
|
|
|
+ to cfdisk, much as gdisk is a rough workalike to fdisk. See the cgdisk
|
|
|
+ man page or http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/cgdisk-walkthrough.html for
|
|
|
+ details about its operation.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed bug that caused CHS end point for protective MBR to be set to
|
|
|
+ 0xfeffff rather than the spec-mandated 0xffffff on disks over ~8GB. This
|
|
|
+ is a very minor bug, since not much cares about this, and most other GPT
|
|
|
+ tools get it wrong in the same way, too.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+0.7.2 (6/26/2011):
|
|
|
+------------------
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- The Windows version now (finally!) generates proper GUIDs rather than a
|
|
|
+ purely random number. This fixes a bug that caused Windows 7 to crash
|
|
|
+ when converting a disk from MBR format (but, oddly, not when creating a
|
|
|
+ fresh partition table or doing various other things).
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added a warning when an MBR partition is discarded because it's too
|
|
|
+ big for the disk.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Changed warning to Windows users about the dangers of converting to GPT
|
|
|
+ so that it appears only on disks that aren't already in GPT form.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed bug that caused bogus "3" values to pad the ends of partition names
|
|
|
+ on some disks (particularly those created by Microsoft's disk
|
|
|
+ partitioning tools).
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Made compilation without Unicode support possible (see README file)
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Made default filesystem type code OS-dependent (based on the compilation
|
|
|
+ platform).
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added new Linux-only filesystem partition type GUID code,
|
|
|
+ 0FC63DAF-8483-4772-8E79-3D69D8477DE4 (8300 entry code). Also changed name
|
|
|
+ of the EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7 (0700 entry code) to
|
|
|
+ "Microsoft basic data").
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed a bug that caused an incorrect code to be set for active/bootable
|
|
|
+ partitions when generating a hybrid MBR.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Enable entry of hex codes that begin with "0x" for both GPT and MBR
|
|
|
+ partitions.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed bug that caused the boot loader code to be lost when creating a
|
|
|
+ hybrid MBR.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed bug in sector input code that could produce improper values
|
|
|
+ if the user inputs ridiculously large "+" values.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+0.7.1 (3/21/2011):
|
|
|
+------------------
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added support for proper UTF-16LE partition names rather than the
|
|
|
+ "shortcut" that properly encoded only ASCII names. This support works
|
|
|
+ only in Linux, FreeBSD, and OS X, though, at least for the moment.
|
|
|
+ Although it's possible to compile this support into Windows when using
|
|
|
+ Visual C++, it doesn't seem to work properly. Since using this feature
|
|
|
+ would require distributing the ICU libraries with the Windows binary,
|
|
|
+ thus bloating the binary package's size to no effect, I've disabled it in
|
|
|
+ my standard Windows build, at least for now.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added check to fixparts to keep it from operating on devices that
|
|
|
+ lack an existing MBR signature. (In 0.7.0, it could write an empty
|
|
|
+ MBR data structure to a device on which it was mistakenly launched.)
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed bug that caused the protective MBR to not be written when
|
|
|
+ restoring a backup of the GPT data.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed bug that caused second protective MBR partition, when created
|
|
|
+ as part of a hybrid MBR, to always be of type 0xEE, even when the
|
|
|
+ user specified something else.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Integrated a number of code cleanups contributed by Florian Zumbiehl.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+0.7.0 (3/11/2011):
|
|
|
+------------------
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed bug that caused some types of logical partitions to be misread.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Created FixParts program, to fix problems on MBR-partitioned disks.
|
|
|
+ Although this program is part of the GPT fdisk family, it is NOT used on
|
|
|
+ GPT disks.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Completely redid the GPT-to-MBR code, used both for converting to MBR
|
|
|
+ form and for creating hybrid MBRs.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed a bug that caused gdisk to "forget" some partitions if there were
|
|
|
+ numbering gaps when a conversion to MBR was aborted.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Improved CHS value creation on small (<~8GB) disks for protective MBR
|
|
|
+ and when creating hybrid MBRs or converting to MBR format. Linux-only,
|
|
|
+ for the moment; other platforms still produce bad CHS values on sub-~8GB
|
|
|
+ disks (but few OSes care these days).
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Enhanced disk replication features ('u' on the experts' menu in gdisk; -R
|
|
|
+ or --replicate in sgdisk). It's now possible to replicate the partition
|
|
|
+ table from a larger to a smaller disk, so long as all the partitions fit
|
|
|
+ on the smaller disk. In sgdisk, the secondary GPT data are moved
|
|
|
+ automatically if disk sizes don't match. In gdisk, the secondary GPT data
|
|
|
+ are moved automatically if the target disk is smaller than the source
|
|
|
+ disk; if the target disk is larger than the source disk, the user is
|
|
|
+ given the option of making this adjustment.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed --load-backup (-l) option to sgdisk, which was broken.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Changed largest drive that's not given a minimum 4 KiB alignment even
|
|
|
+ when smaller alignment is detected on the disk to 300 GB.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed bug that prevented aborting a partition table backup ('u' on the
|
|
|
+ experts' menu) by hitting the Enter key for the device filename.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Implemented a number of code cleanups provided by Florian Zumbiehl.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+0.6.14 (1/8/2011):
|
|
|
+------------------
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Made small change to the way the start sector is interpreted if you use a
|
|
|
+ "+" specification, as in "+2G" to locate a partition 2 GiB into the
|
|
|
+ default range. This change makes adjustments for sector alignment less
|
|
|
+ likely.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Modified sgdisk's -n (--new) option to work with relative start and end
|
|
|
+ values (which the man page incorrectly stated it already did). Values of
|
|
|
+ 0 for the start and end sectors refer to the first and last available
|
|
|
+ sectors in the largest free block, and a partition number of 0 refers to
|
|
|
+ the first available partition.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added ChromeOS GUID values to list of recognized partition type GUIDs.
|
|
|
+ 7F00 = ChromeOS kernel, 7501 = ChromeOS root, 7502 = ChromeOS reserved.
|
|
|
+ Untested on actual ChromeOS system.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Tweaked APM detection to look for APM signature even if an MBR
|
|
|
+ signature has already been found. Helps in diagnosis of cases
|
|
|
+ in which an MBR has overwritten an APM disk.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+0.6.13 (10/12/2010):
|
|
|
+--------------------
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added notification about nonexistent partitions to hybrid MBR creation
|
|
|
+ in gdisk.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed bug in GPT-to-MBR conversion that could sometimes enable creation
|
|
|
+ of an extended partition that overlaps a preceding partition.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed bug in GPT-to-MBR conversion that prevented creation of an MBR
|
|
|
+ table with logical partitions if there were four or fewer partitions.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+0.6.12 (10/7/2010):
|
|
|
+-------------------
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Adjusted alignment code to use 1 MiB alignment by default for drives with
|
|
|
+ other than 512-byte sector sizes. (Previous versions increased this --
|
|
|
+ for instance, to 4 MiB for drives with 2048-byte logical sector size.)
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Entry of non-hexadecimal value for partition type code now causes
|
|
|
+ re-prompting for a new value, fixing a recently-introduced minor bug.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed bug in sector entry using K/M/G/T/P suffixes on disks with
|
|
|
+ other-than-512-byte sector numbers.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added "P" (PiB, pebibyte) suffix to suffixes accepted in entering
|
|
|
+ partition sizes.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed bug that caused sgdisk to segfault if fed the (invalid)
|
|
|
+ "-A show" parameter. Now it terminates with a complaint about an invalid
|
|
|
+ partition number 0.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Removed warning when running on big-endian hardware, since this
|
|
|
+ support has been present for quite a while with no bug reports.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+0.6.11 (9/25/2010):
|
|
|
+-------------------
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added -F (--first-aligned-in-largest) option to sgdisk. This option is a
|
|
|
+ variant on -f (--first-in-largest); it returns the number of the first
|
|
|
+ sector that will be used in the largest free area, given the current
|
|
|
+ alignment value (set via -a/--set-alignment).
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Streamlined GUID code entry in gdisk; it no longer offers the option
|
|
|
+ to enter GUIDs in separate segments.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- The -t option to sgdisk now accepts GUID values as well as the
|
|
|
+ sgdisk/gdisk-specific two-byte hex codes.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added check that the protective 0xEE MBR partition begins on sector 1
|
|
|
+ to the verify function. If it doesn't, a warning message is displayed,
|
|
|
+ but it doesn't count as an error.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added check for overlapping MBR partitions to verify function (gdisk "v"
|
|
|
+ function on all menus; sgdisk -v/--verify function). Also warns about
|
|
|
+ multiple MBR 0xEE partitions (causes problems in some OSes).
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added check to GPT-to-MBR and hybrid MBR creation options to prevent
|
|
|
+ creation of disks with duplicate partitions. When told to create a disk
|
|
|
+ with duplicates, sgdisk now aborts with the error message "Problem
|
|
|
+ creating MBR!" When attempting to create a hybrid MBR with duplicates,
|
|
|
+ gdisk silently drops duplicate partitions, leaving fewer than requested.
|
|
|
+ Creating duplicates should not be possible in sgdisk when converting to
|
|
|
+ MBR form.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+0.6.10 (8/22/2010):
|
|
|
+-------------------
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Enable disk-wipe (-z and -Z) and verification (-v) operations in
|
|
|
+ sgdisk even if the disk is badly damaged.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added support for setting attributes in sgdisk (-A/--attributes option)
|
|
|
+ in sgdisk.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed bug that created backwards attribute field values (bit #2 was
|
|
|
+ entered as bit #61, etc.).
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed bug that caused creation of hybrid MBR to wipe out the MBR's boot
|
|
|
+ code.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added ability to save partition table from one device to another (gdisk:
|
|
|
+ 'u' on experts' menu; sgdisk: -R or --replicate option).
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed inaccessible -C/--recompute-chs option in sgdisk.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+0.6.9 (7/4/2010):
|
|
|
+------------------
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed minor error in sgdisk man page (--largest-new option requires
|
|
|
+ a partition number).
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed major bug in hybrid MBR creation, which caused incorrect
|
|
|
+ protective partition end point settings and occasionally other
|
|
|
+ problems.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+0.6.8 (5/23/2010):
|
|
|
+------------------
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added tests to see if the file to be opened is a directory, character
|
|
|
+ device, FIFO, or socket; program now terminates if any of these
|
|
|
+ conditions is met. (Linux/FreeBSD/OS X only.) Thanks to Justin Maggard
|
|
|
+ for this patch.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added 'f' option on gdisk's experts' menu (-G/--randomize-guids in
|
|
|
+ sgdisk). This option randomizes the disk's GUID and all partitions'
|
|
|
+ GUIDs. Intended for use after cloning a disk with a utility that copies
|
|
|
+ the GUIDs intact (such as a raw dd copy) if you want each disk copy to
|
|
|
+ have its own set of GUIDs.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added -u/--partition-guid and -U/--disk-guid options to sgdisk. These are
|
|
|
+ the equivalents of the 'g' and 'c' options, respectively, on the gdisk
|
|
|
+ experts' menu: They enable adjusting an individual partition's GUID or a
|
|
|
+ disk's GUID. The GUID may be either a fully specified GUID value or 'R'
|
|
|
+ or 'r' to set a random GUID value.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed compile problem for FreeBSD (its math library lacks a log2()
|
|
|
+ function). Also created separate Makefile.freebsd with a couple of
|
|
|
+ FreeBSD-specific options.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added -N (--largest-new) command to sgdisk. This command creates a single
|
|
|
+ partition that fills the largest single unpartitioned block of space on
|
|
|
+ the disk.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed sgdisk man page error: the --change-name option was incorrectly
|
|
|
+ listed as --change.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added 'h' option to gdisk experts' menu (-C or --recompute-chs in sgdisk)
|
|
|
+ to recompute all protective/hybrid MBR CHS values. This option is
|
|
|
+ intended to work around a bug in at least one BIOS that prevents the
|
|
|
+ computer from booting when the GPT-mandated (but technically illegal)
|
|
|
+ 0xFFFFFF CHS value is used as the end point for a protective MBR. The
|
|
|
+ recomputed values will be legal (e.g., 0xFEFFFF instead of 0xFFFFFF),
|
|
|
+ but incorrect in GPT terms, and will therefore enable at least one
|
|
|
+ BIOS to boot with a GPT disk. See http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/bios.html
|
|
|
+ for all I know about BIOS/GPT incompatibilities.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+0.6.7 (5/1/2010):
|
|
|
+-----------------
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Undid earlier change, with version 0.6.4, that wiped the MBR boot loader
|
|
|
+ when doing MBR-to-GPT conversions. I've now become skeptical that MBR
|
|
|
+ boot loaders were causing any real problems on GPT disks, so I'm going
|
|
|
+ back to the philosophy of leaving as much alone as possible.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed bug that caused incorrect reporting of free space on 0-size disks
|
|
|
+ (e.g., files of 0 length passed as disk images).
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed bug that caused segfault on some invalid disks
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed bug that caused incorrect partition numbers to be displayed for
|
|
|
+ some verify problems.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+0.6.6 (3/21/2010):
|
|
|
+-----------------
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added support for the "no block IO protocol" (referred to as "hide from
|
|
|
+ EFI" in GPT fdisk) and "legacy BIOS bootable" attribute bits. See Table
|
|
|
+ 19 of the UEFI 2.3 specification (p. 153) for details.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Changed the sequence in which GPT data structures are written to disk;
|
|
|
+ backups are now written first, followed by the main structures. This is
|
|
|
+ as recommended in the UEFI 2.3 specification, since it's safer in the
|
|
|
+ extremely unlikely event that a RAID array's size is increased and
|
|
|
+ there's a power outage mid-write. (If the main structures are written
|
|
|
+ first in this case, they'll point to data that's not yet been written;
|
|
|
+ but by writing the backups first, the old main structures will still
|
|
|
+ point to the valid old backup structures.)
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Protective MBRs now have disk signatures of 0x00000000, to better
|
|
|
+ conform with GPT as described in the UEFI 2.3 specification.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added alignment information to the summary data produced by the
|
|
|
+ 'p' main-menu option in gdisk or the -p option to sgdisk.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- More alignment changes: GPT fdisk now attempts to determine the alignment
|
|
|
+ value based on alignment of current partitions, if any are defined. If no
|
|
|
+ partitions are defined, a default value of 2048 is set. If the computed
|
|
|
+ value is less than 8 on drives over about 596GiB, it's reset to 8, since
|
|
|
+ the drive might be a WD Advanced Format unit that requires an 8-sector
|
|
|
+ (or larger power-of-2) alignment value for best performance. The
|
|
|
+ 2048-sector default provides better alignment in some RAID
|
|
|
+ configurations.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Changed behavior when a backup restore fails. Previously, GPT fdisk
|
|
|
+ would create a fresh blank set of partitions. Now it does so only
|
|
|
+ if the failure occurs when interpreting the backup's contents; if the
|
|
|
+ user typed the wrong filename, the in-memory data structures aren't
|
|
|
+ touched.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+0.6.5 (3/7/2010):
|
|
|
+-----------------
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added tests to verify ('v') function and to pre-save checks to look for
|
|
|
+ partitions that end before they begin or that are too big for their
|
|
|
+ disks.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed a bug that could cause spurious data to appear in a grown partition
|
|
|
+ table.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added ability to convert some or all partitions to logical partitions in
|
|
|
+ GPT-to-MBR conversion. This feature is limited by the fact that at least
|
|
|
+ one free sector must exist immediately prior to each logical partition,
|
|
|
+ so it won't do much good if partitions are crammed together. It should be
|
|
|
+ possible to convert back to MBR any disk that started that way, provided
|
|
|
+ no partitions were added or resized when the disk was in GPT form; and
|
|
|
+ disks that were partitioned with Apple's Disk Utility or other tools that
|
|
|
+ insert unpartitioned space should also be convertible. CAUTION: THE
|
|
|
+ LOGICAL PARTITION CREATION FEATURE DOESN'T TRY TO ALIGN PARTITIONS OR
|
|
|
+ PARTITION HEADER DATA TO CYLINDER BOUNDARIES! It's conceivable that some
|
|
|
+ older OSes or utilities will object to these disks, although Linux, OS X,
|
|
|
+ Windows Vista, and Windows 7 all seem happy with them.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed bug that caused creation of 0-length file if an incorrect device
|
|
|
+ filename was typed.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- The gdisk program now prompts for a device filename if it's called with
|
|
|
+ no options. This enables gdisk to do something useful if it's launched by
|
|
|
+ double-clicking its icon in a GUI environment.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added workaround for bug in some versions of MinGW that caused the
|
|
|
+ program to garble input sector numbers.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- The Windows version now works on disks with over-512-byte sectors.
|
|
|
+ Tested on a magneto-optical (MO) drive with 2048-byte sectors.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added -D (--display-alignment) option to sgdisk, to display sector
|
|
|
+ alignment value (by default, 1 for sub-800GiB disks and 8 for disks
|
|
|
+ over that size).
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed bug in computation of CHS geometries for protective MBR. This is
|
|
|
+ non-critical, since most modern utilities ignore the CHS geometries.
|
|
|
+ Concerned users can use the 'n' option on the experts' menu to build new
|
|
|
+ protective MBRs with the new algorithm, if desired. (Note that GNU
|
|
|
+ Parted, at least, gets this wrong, too.)
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed memory-allocation bug when reading GPT disks with partition tables
|
|
|
+ with over 128 entries; could cause program to crash on startup.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+0.6.4-2 (2/20/2010):
|
|
|
+--------------------
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+Note: Neither of the following changes affects actual program code, so I've
|
|
|
+left the version number in the program at 0.6.4.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Altered Makefile to pass user's compiler and linker environment
|
|
|
+ variables through.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added #include to gpttext.cc to enable it to compile on the latest
|
|
|
+ GCC versions (it was failing on at least some 4.4.x compilers).
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+0.6.4 (2/19/2010):
|
|
|
+-------------------
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added -m (--gpttombr) option to sgdisk, enabling conversion of GPT
|
|
|
+ disks to MBR format, with a limit of four partitions total, and of course
|
|
|
+ without overcoming the 2TiB limit.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added -h (--hybrid) option to sgdisk, enabling creation of hybrid
|
|
|
+ MBRs. Fewer options are available in sgdisk than in gdisk, though,
|
|
|
+ in order to keep the user interface manageable.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed off-by-one bug in specification of partition when using the
|
|
|
+ -T (--transform-bsd) option in sgdisk.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Changed the code to create a new MBR unique disk signature whenever a new
|
|
|
+ protective MBR is generated (when doing an MBR-to-GPT conversion, when
|
|
|
+ using the 'n' option on the experts' menu, or when using the 'o' option
|
|
|
+ on the main menu, for example). Previous versions attempted to preserve
|
|
|
+ the existing MBR disk signature in most cases, but this resulted in
|
|
|
+ values of 0x00000000 whenever an empty disk was partitioned, and often in
|
|
|
+ other cases, too. Better to risk changing this value too often than to
|
|
|
+ leave multiple disks with 0x00000000 values, I think.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added transpose ('t' on experts' menu in gdisk; or -r or --transpose in
|
|
|
+ sgdisk) command to enable fine-tuning partition order without doing a
|
|
|
+ full sort.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added code to clear the MBR boot loader when doing an MBR-to-GPT
|
|
|
+ conversion. (This was already done in full-disk BSD-to-GPT conversions.)
|
|
|
+ This is done because I've seen a few problem reports that make me think
|
|
|
+ some MBR boot loaders freak out and hang the system when they encounter
|
|
|
+ GPT disks, and/or they attempt to load a second-stage boot loader stored
|
|
|
+ in what is now GPT territory, causing a system hang. Since MBR boot
|
|
|
+ loaders don't work on GPT disks anyhow (even GRUB needs to be
|
|
|
+ reinstalled), this new wiping behavior shouldn't cause any problems, and
|
|
|
+ may prevent a few.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed bug in Windows version that prevented saving backup files.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed bug that caused second and subsequent partition numbers in
|
|
|
+ prompts in hybrid MBR conversion procedure to be displayed in
|
|
|
+ hexadecimal.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed very obscure potential bug in hybrid MBR/GPT synchronization when
|
|
|
+ deleting partitions; code wasn't matching partition lengths correctly,
|
|
|
+ which would only affect partitions that start at the same point but have
|
|
|
+ different lengths in MBR vs. GPT.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed bug in the -E option to sgdisk; it was actually returning the
|
|
|
+ last free sector, not the last free sector in the largest free block.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed bug in -t option to sgdisk; it was corrupting partition type
|
|
|
+ codes.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed minor alignment bug in partition summary list ('p' from any menu)
|
|
|
+ when partition sizes are between 1000 and 1024 units.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Backup restore function ('l' on recovery & transformation menu) now
|
|
|
+ accepts both backups generated by GPT fdisk and backups created by a
|
|
|
+ direct copy (via dd, etc.) of the MBR, main GPT header, and main GPT
|
|
|
+ partition table, in that order. ("dd if=/dev/sda of=backup.gpt bs=512
|
|
|
+ count=34" will do this on Linux for a disk with a typical-sized GPT table
|
|
|
+ of 128 entries.)
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+0.6.3 (2/3/2010):
|
|
|
+------------------
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed serious data corruption bug on big-endian (PowerPC and similar)
|
|
|
+ systems.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Changed several GPT fdisk Solaris type codes to correct a duplicate
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Corrected error in GPT fdisk type codes for NetBSD LFS and NetBSD RAID;
|
|
|
+ they were identical, but I've now changed NetBSD RAID to A906, which
|
|
|
+ is unique.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added GUID for IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS) partition type
|
|
|
+ code. Somewhat arbitrarily set it to use the 7501 number (MBR code 0x75
|
|
|
+ is used by IBM PC/IX, so it's at least the right company, by my loose
|
|
|
+ numbering rules....).
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Improved GUID generation. Prior versions generated completely random
|
|
|
+ numbers for GUIDs. This works, but is technically a violation of the
|
|
|
+ spec. Unix versions now employ libuuid to generate GUIDs in a more
|
|
|
+ correct way. The Windows version still generates random numbers, though.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Turned PartTypes class into a derived class of GUIDData, and renamed
|
|
|
+ it to PartType.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Created new GUIDData class, to replace the original GUIDData struct.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+0.6.2 (1/29/2010):
|
|
|
+------------------
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- The change-type ('t' on main menu) option now changes the partition's
|
|
|
+ name *IF* the current name is the generic one for the partition type.
|
|
|
+ If the current name is not the generic name, it is NOT changed.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed bug that caused new protective MBR to not be created when the
|
|
|
+ MBR was invalid and the GPT was damaged and the user opts to try to
|
|
|
+ use the GPT data.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Enabled default partition type code of 0700 when creating partitions
|
|
|
+ or changing their type codes. (Type 0700, Linux/Windows data, is set if
|
|
|
+ the user hits the Enter key alone.)
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed bug in sort ('s' on main menu) option that caused partition
|
|
|
+ numbers to begin at more than 1 if the original partition list had
|
|
|
+ too many empty partitions before the last one defined.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Improved code to determine which partition table to load in case of
|
|
|
+ CRC mismatches between the partition tables and the stored CRC values
|
|
|
+ in the headers.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Compiles using MinGW (http://www.mingw.org) to create a Windows binary.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Moved all disk I/O functions to the new DiskIO class. This helps with the
|
|
|
+ Windows port; it uses diskio-windows.cc for Windows-specific code,
|
|
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+ diskio-unix.cc for the Linux, FreeBSD, and OS X code, and diskio.cc for
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+ cross-platform disk I/O code.
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+
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+- Changed BSD disklabel detection code to be more correct (I think).
|
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+ This change has no effect on my test disks, but I hope it'll work
|
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+ better on disks with sector sizes other than 512 or 2048.
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+
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+0.6.1 (1/20/2010):
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|
+------------------
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+
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+- Fixed bug that returned incorrect disk size on 32-bit versions of
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+ FreeBSD.
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+
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+- Fixed bug that prevented FreeBSD version from working on disk image
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+ files.
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+
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+- Fixed bug that caused BSD disklabel conversion to fail.
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+
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+0.6.0 (1/15/2010):
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+------------------
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+
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+- Fixed bug that caused the convert to MBR function to fail.
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+
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+- Added support for disks with other than 512-byte sectors.
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+
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+- Created embryonic sgdisk program.
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+
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+- Fixed bug that caused relative sector numbers entered by users (e.g,
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+ "+128M") to be misinterpreted as from the start of the range rather than
|
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+ from the default value.
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+
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+0.5.3 (1/4/2010):
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|
|
+-----------------
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+
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+- Fixed bug in display of GUIDs when compiled with some versions of GCC.
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+
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+- Eliminated warnings caused by additional checks in latest versions of
|
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+ GCC. These warnings were harmless, but to eliminate them I've added
|
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+ more error checking on disk I/O.
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+
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+- Eliminated unnecessary warnings about potential data loss if the program
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+ was launched with the -l option or if writes aren't possible.
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+
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+- Added code to set the partition boundary value based on the physical
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+ sector size. (FindAlignment() function.) This function, however, works
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+ only on Linux, and then only if the BLKPBSZGET ioctl is defined. This
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+ ioctl is new in kernel 2.6.32 or thereabouts.
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+
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+0.5.2 (12/31/2009):
|
|
|
+-------------------
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+
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|
+- Modified partition creation function to begin partitions on 8-sector
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+ boundaries by default. This improves performance on the new Western
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|
+ Digital Advanced Format drives. The new 'd' and 'l' options on the
|
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|
+ experts' menu display and change, respectively, the boundary size.
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+
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+- Tweaked code to produce fewer warnings on the latest versions of
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|
+ GCC.
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+
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|
+0.5.1:
|
|
|
+------
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|
+
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|
+- Made some minor edits to the man page.
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+
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+- Incorporated RPM .spec file changes contributed by Scott Collier
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|
+ (boodle11@gmail.com).
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+
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+- Changed method of locating and loading backup GPT data, to use the
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|
+ main header's pointer, if it's valid, rather than seeking to the
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|
|
+ end of the disk.
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+
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+- Added 'e' option (relocate backup GPT data structures) to the experts'
|
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|
+ menu.
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+
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|
|
+- Fixed bug that prevented recovery of partitions in case of partially
|
|
|
+ damaged GPT data (bad main and good backup or bad backup and good
|
|
|
+ main header, for instance).
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+0.5.0:
|
|
|
+------
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added GPT-to-MBR conversion function. It's very limited, but potentially
|
|
|
+ useful in some cases.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed bug that caused incorrect file sizes to be reported on 32-bit
|
|
|
+ Linux, thus causing problems when editing partition tables in disk images
|
|
|
+ or when loading GPT backup files.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed bug that caused bogus CRC error reports when loading backup GPT
|
|
|
+ data.
|
|
|
+
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|
|
+- Reorganized menus. There are now three: the main menu, the experts' menu,
|
|
|
+ and the recovery & transformation menu. The last of these has most of the
|
|
|
+ items that had been on the earlier versions' experts' menu.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added ability to re-load the MBR and generate a fresh GPT from it. This
|
|
|
+ is normally identical to quitting and re-running the program, but it
|
|
|
+ could be handy if, say, the GPT partitions on a hybrid configuration are
|
|
|
+ badly messed up; this will enable using the hybridized partitions as the
|
|
|
+ starting point for a new GPT setup.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- The program now generates CHS values for hybrid and GPT-to-MBR conversion
|
|
|
+ MBRs. For the moment, the assumption is the maximum number of heads and
|
|
|
+ sectors per track (255 and 63, respectively), although the bulk of the
|
|
|
+ code supports other values -- it'd just be awkward to enter the data in
|
|
|
+ the user interface.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed minor display bug that caused number of sectors on the disk to be
|
|
|
+ shown as 0 on large disks when running 32-bit binaries.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Reverted 0.4.2's zap (destroy GPT) changes, since I don't want to wipe
|
|
|
+ out a valid MBR if the user created that MBR over an older GPT without
|
|
|
+ first properly wiping out the GPT, and the user now wants to wipe out
|
|
|
+ the GPT.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Reformatted and edited the man page. Aside from edits related to the
|
|
|
+ preceding program changes, I've altered the markup slightly and trimmed
|
|
|
+ much of the more tutorial information from the man page to better
|
|
|
+ conform to typical terse man page style.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+0.4.2:
|
|
|
+------
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Code cleanup.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed very small formatting bug in display of hex code when a match isn't
|
|
|
+ found when converting from an MBR/gdisk hex code to a GUID type code.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added the ability to work on disk image files (raw files for virtual
|
|
|
+ machines, backup images, etc.). The program assumes that all such disk
|
|
|
+ image files have 512-byte sectors.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added verification prompt to 'o' main-menu option to avoid accidental
|
|
|
+ erasures of all partitions.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- The "destroy GPT data structures" option ('z' on the experts' menu) now
|
|
|
+ also destroys all EFI GPT (0xEE) partitions in the MBR.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added an extra warning to the "destroy GPT data structures" option if an APM
|
|
|
+ or BSD disklabel was detected on the disk.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added a buffer flush after destroying GPT data structures, to get the OS
|
|
|
+ to read the new (empty or MBR-only) partition table.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed bug that allowed entry of nonexistent partition numbers when creating
|
|
|
+ a hybrid MBR.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+0.4.1:
|
|
|
+------
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Code cleanup/re-organization
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Partition creation function ('n' on main menu) now uses the start of the
|
|
|
+ largest available chunk of free space rather than the first available
|
|
|
+ sector as the default starting sector number. This should enable easier
|
|
|
+ partition creation if there are small bits of free space on the disk.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- You can now specify the end point of a partition by using a minus sign,
|
|
|
+ in which case the end point is the default value minus the specified
|
|
|
+ size. For instance, "-200M" creates a partition that ends 200MiB before
|
|
|
+ the default end point.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- You can now specify the start point of a partition by using a plus or
|
|
|
+ minus sign, in which case the start point is the specified distance from
|
|
|
+ the start (+) or end (-) of free space. This is exactly the same as the
|
|
|
+ new rules for entry of the end point, except that the default value is
|
|
|
+ set differently.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Deleting a partition now checks for a matching hybrid MBR partition, and
|
|
|
+ if one is found, it's deleted. Any empty space that then surrounds the
|
|
|
+ 0xEE (EFI GPT) MBR partitions is then added to the nearby 0xEE partition.
|
|
|
+ If no non-0xEE partitions are left, a fresh protective MBR is generated.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added hybrid MBR consistency check to the verify ('v') option and to
|
|
|
+ pre-write checks. If non-0xEE/non-0x00 MBR partitions without
|
|
|
+ corresponding GPT partitions are found, the user is warned. This finding
|
|
|
+ does NOT prevent writing the partition table, though.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added non-destructive write test when opening the device file, in order
|
|
|
+ to detect the problem with FreeBSD being unable to write to disks with
|
|
|
+ mounted partitions (or other potential problems).
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+0.4.0:
|
|
|
+------
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added support for BSD disklabels. The program can now convert disks that
|
|
|
+ use "raw" disklabels, with the caveat that the first partition will
|
|
|
+ almost certainly need to be deleted because it'll overlap the main GPT
|
|
|
+ header; and convert disklabels contained within a GPT (or a former MBR,
|
|
|
+ converted to GPT) partition. In the latter case, the 'b' main menu option
|
|
|
+ is used.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added support for compiling on FreeBSD.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed bug that could cause crashes or incomplete sorts when sorting
|
|
|
+ the partition table.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- New partitions, including converted ones, now take on the name of the
|
|
|
+ partition type as a default name.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Reorganized some code; created a separate C++ class for GPT partitions
|
|
|
+ (GPTPart), which replaced a struct and enabled moving code from the
|
|
|
+ bloated GPTData class into GPTPart.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed a bug that produced spurious warnings about unknown sector sizes
|
|
|
+ when loading a backup file.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+0.3.5:
|
|
|
+------
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+Note: This version was not officially publicly released; I wanted to test
|
|
|
+the big-endian support while developing 0.4.0.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Tweaked the disk type identification code to warn users to re-sync their
|
|
|
+ hybrid MBRs when one is detected.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Tweaked MBR-reading code to ignore 0xEE (EFI GPT) partitions. This will
|
|
|
+ only have an effect on a poorly partitioned MBR disk that contains an
|
|
|
+ inappropriate EFI GPT partition, or when attempting to recover a
|
|
|
+ corrupted disk by using the hybrid MBR for data recovery.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added big-endian (PowerPC, etc.) support!
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added code to identify and warn of the presence of an Apple Partition
|
|
|
+ Map (APM) on the disk.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Enabled MBR conversion code to handle multiple logical partitions.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+0.3.4:
|
|
|
+------
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed bug that enabled (possibly accidental) entry of MBR type codes of
|
|
|
+ 0x00 in GPTData::MakeHybrid(). The fix also enables entry of default
|
|
|
+ type code by pressing the Enter key when prompted. Applied a similar
|
|
|
+ fix to the entry of the type code for the second protective partition,
|
|
|
+ if one is used.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed a typo: "sectors" was spelled "sectprs" in one spot!
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed bug that caused default entry for end sector to be refused if an
|
|
|
+ initial value using a plus sign (e.g., "+20G") was also refused.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+0.3.3:
|
|
|
+------
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Gave users control over the way MBR partitions are assigned to slots in a
|
|
|
+ hybrid MBR setup; the original method (putting the 0xEE partition after
|
|
|
+ the real partitions) works well for non-boot disks, but both GRUB and
|
|
|
+ GRUB2 become confused by this type of setup, so it needs changing.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Changed "blocks" to "sectors" in GPT and MBR table displays.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added "Boot" column to MBR table display; shows an asterisk (*) when the
|
|
|
+ partition's status is bootable.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+0.3.2:
|
|
|
+------
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Changed __DARWIN_UNIX03 to __APPLE__ as code to enable MacOS X support.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added the ability to create a hybrid MBR ('h' on experts' menu). This was
|
|
|
+ motivated by my discovery that Windows 7 remains brain-dead when it comes
|
|
|
+ to the ability to boot from a GPT disk, at least on BIOS-based machines.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added 'z' option to experts' menu, to destroy GPT data structures and
|
|
|
+ exit. The intent is to use this feature to enable subsequent partitioning
|
|
|
+ of the disk using fdisk or other GPT-unaware tools. (GNU Parted will wipe
|
|
|
+ the GPT data structures itself when you create a new MBR ["msdos
|
|
|
+ disklabel," in Parted parlance], so using Parted is another option.)
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Slightly altered the effect of the 'o' command on the main menu. It now
|
|
|
+ blanks out the protective MBR, as well as the GPT data.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+0.3.1:
|
|
|
+------
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added Mac OS X support, provided as a patch by David Hubbard
|
|
|
+ (david.c.hubbard@gmail.com).
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed bug in disksize() function on Mac OS. (Possibly dependent on the
|
|
|
+ kernel and/or GCC version.) The disk size, of type uint64_t, was not
|
|
|
+ being passed correctly, so I reorganized the function to return it as
|
|
|
+ the function's return value rather than as a parameter. This seems to
|
|
|
+ work OK on my Mac OS test system and on both 32- and 64-bit Linux
|
|
|
+ systems.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed off-by-one bug in GPTData::FindLastAvailable().
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed bug that caused display of options after a disk-write error.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed several incorrect MacOS X partition type GUIDs, thanks to Yves
|
|
|
+ Blusseau (1otnwmz02@sneakemail.com).
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+0.3.0:
|
|
|
+------
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Changed version number to 0.3.0, reflecting the fact that I've received
|
|
|
+ no significant bug reports and so am elevating the program to "beta"
|
|
|
+ status. This change also entailed altering the warning the program
|
|
|
+ displays when saving partition table changes.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed minor bug in CHS geometry of the protective MBR's type EE partition
|
|
|
+ (was producing 0x000200 as the start value, but should be 0x000100).
|
|
|
+ Should be a non-critical bug since the protective MBR partition
|
|
|
+ definition is only there to keep MBR-only disk utilities from messing
|
|
|
+ with the disk.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added ability to enter GUIDs as single massive strings rather than in
|
|
|
+ chunks.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+0.2.2:
|
|
|
+------
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added #include directives required to compile the program using GCC
|
|
|
+ 4.4.0.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+0.2.1:
|
|
|
+------
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed partition numbering problem in reports of partition overlaps in
|
|
|
+ verification function.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed 1-sector partition size problem when creating new partitions
|
|
|
+ (partitions were 1 sector too big when using the +size option).
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Changed BytesToSI() to display values in bytes without decimal points
|
|
|
+ (e.g., "512 bytes" rather than "512.0 bytes").
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added GPTData class member functions to retrieve GPT data structure
|
|
|
+ locations on disk; used in my internal-use-only GPT-wiping program.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Eliminated the "a reboot is recommended" notice after writing the
|
|
|
+ partition table.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added notice after sorting the partition table to the effect that
|
|
|
+ editing /etc/fstab and/or the boot loader files may be required.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed bug in MBR-reading function that caused 0x0f (Win95 LBA) and 0x85
|
|
|
+ (Linux extended) extended partitions to not be read.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Fixed bug in GetLastSector() (in support.cc) that would have prevented
|
|
|
+ correct user entry of over-32-bit sector numbers on 32-bit systems.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Made some changes/corrections to the partition type list in
|
|
|
+ parttypes.cc. Most of these were based on newly-discovered MBR type
|
|
|
+ codes for Apple (Mac OS X) filesystems.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- General code cleanup (setting explicit casts, etc.)
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+0.2.0:
|
|
|
+------
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Initial semi-public release
|
Tobias Simetsreiter