Topic: [SOLVED]Need Help Testing "Align to MiB", and sector sizes > 512 bytes
EDIT: GParted 0.6.0 was released on June 18, 2010.
Would you like to help us build a better, more robust GParted?
We could use help testing partition operations:
on disk devices with sector sizes > 512 bytes.
on any disk device using the new default "Align to MiB" alignment.
Testing is advised on a non-production system when you have a backup of your data. :-)
Initial support for devices with sector sizes > 512 bytes and partition alignment to the nearest Mebibyte (1,048,576 bytes) has been added to GParted and committed to the gnome git repository.
A tarball is available at:
gparted-0.6.0-beta1.tar.bz2 - No longer available.
EDIT 2010-06-11: Updated tarball available for download
gparted-0.6.0-beta2.tar.bz2
EDIT 2010-06-16: Thanks to Francois Dupoux, gparted-0.6.0-beta2 has been included on the System Rescue CD beta version. You can download this Live CD at the following link:
SysRescCd-Beta-x86
Testing to date has been performed on disk devices with 512 byte sector sizes. Testing with larger sector sizes has been performed using the SCSI_DEBUG device driver.
REQUIRED DEPENDENCIES:
libparted version 2.2 or higher is required for sector sizes larger than 512 bytes.
KNOWN ISSUES:
hfs/hfs+: used/unused space not detected when sector size > 512 bytes
hfs/hfs+: shrink file system not available when sector size > 512 bytes
TESTS:
Any testing is appreciated. If you are not sure what to test, you could try one or more of the following suggestions.
1) Does gparted recognize your disk device with > 512 byte sector size?
2) Can you create, resize, and delete a partition?
3) Can you move, and copy a partition?
You might want to try a small partition so it doesn't take too long.
4) Do partition operations work with the file systems you normally use?
5) If you have a disk device that you can afford to wipe clean,
can you create a new partition table?
