| 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, |
| diskio-unix.cc for the Linux, FreeBSD, and OS X code, and diskio.cc for |
| cross-platform disk I/O code. |
| |
| - Changed BSD disklabel detection code to be more correct (I think). |
| This change has no effect on my test disks, but I hope it'll work |
| better on disks with sector sizes other than 512 or 2048. |
| |
| 0.6.1 (1/20/2010): |
| ------------------ |
| |
| - Fixed bug that returned incorrect disk size on 32-bit versions of |
| FreeBSD. |
| |
| - Fixed bug that prevented FreeBSD version from working on disk image |
| files. |
| |
| - Fixed bug that caused BSD disklabel conversion to fail. |
| |
| 0.6.0 (1/15/2010): |
| ------------------ |
| |
| - Fixed bug that caused the convert to MBR function to fail. |
| |
| - Added support for disks with other than 512-byte sectors. |
| |
| - Created embryonic sgdisk program. |
| |
| - Fixed bug that caused relative sector numbers entered by users (e.g, |
| "+128M") to be misinterpreted as from the start of the range rather than |
| from the default value. |
| |
| 0.5.3 (1/4/2010): |
| ----------------- |
| |
| - Fixed bug in display of GUIDs when compiled with some versions of GCC. |
| |
| - Eliminated warnings caused by additional checks in latest versions of |
| GCC. These warnings were harmless, but to eliminate them I've added |
| more error checking on disk I/O. |
| |
| - Eliminated unnecessary warnings about potential data loss if the program |
| was launched with the -l option or if writes aren't possible. |
| |
| - Added code to set the partition boundary value based on the physical |
| sector size. (FindAlignment() function.) This function, however, works |
| only on Linux, and then only if the BLKPBSZGET ioctl is defined. This |
| ioctl is new in kernel 2.6.32 or thereabouts. |
| |
| 0.5.2 (12/31/2009): |
| ------------------- |
| |
| - Modified partition creation function to begin partitions on 8-sector |
| boundaries by default. This improves performance on the new Western |
| Digital Advanced Format drives. The new 'd' and 'l' options on the |
| experts' menu display and change, respectively, the boundary size. |
| |
| - Tweaked code to produce fewer warnings on the latest versions of |
| GCC. |
| |
| 0.5.1: |
| ------ |
| |
| - Made some minor edits to the man page. |
| |
| - Incorporated RPM .spec file changes contributed by Scott Collier |
| (boodle11@gmail.com). |
| |
| - Changed method of locating and loading backup GPT data, to use the |
| main header's pointer, if it's valid, rather than seeking to the |
| end of the disk. |
| |
| - Added 'e' option (relocate backup GPT data structures) to the experts' |
| menu. |
| |
| - 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. |
| |
| - 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 |