GParted News Item 231

The GParted team is pleased to announce a new stable release of GParted Live.

This release includes GParted 1.1.0, updated packages, and other improvements.

Items of note include:

• Includes GParted 1.1.0:
  • Fix error when moving locked LUKS-encrypted partition
  • Switch to faster minfo and mdir to read FAT16/32 usage
  • Calculate JFS size accurately
  • Recognise ATARAID members and detect their busy status
• Based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2020/Jan/21)
• Linux kernel updated to 5.4.13-1
• Fix an issue about makeboot.sh which failed to run
• Increased minimum requirements to 320 MB of RAM

This release of GParted Live has been successfully tested on VirtualBox, VMware, BIOS, UEFI, and physical computers with AMD/ATI, NVidia, and Intel graphics.

Note that the default boot options did not display an X Desktop on old Acer Aspire laptops. The workaround is to select Other modes of GParted Live and choose GParted Live (Safe graphics setting, vga-normal).

Note also that a problem on a test computer with GParted stuck displaying "Scanning all devices..." turned out to be an mdadm command waiting forever for a floppy_read_block. This was fixed by disabling a BIOS setting which indicated a floppy drive was present when no physical floppy device existed on the computer.

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