Based on the Debian Sid repository as of August 8, 2017

Aug 10, 2017 20:40 GMT  ·  By

GParted maintainer Curtis Gedak announced the release and immediate availability for download of GParted 0.29.0 open-source disk partitioning tool, as well as the corresponding GParted Live 0.29.0-1 distribution.

Adding key enhancements like support for the UDF file system, Gparted 0.29.0 is here to fix a segmentation fault on disks that contained corrupted FAT file systems, as well as to address an issue with snap-to-alignment of operations when creating partitions, making it work as advertised.

It also improves support for resizing Btrfs partitions that are mounted with whitespace, adds support for the Google Test C++ test framework, makes it possible to set an empty label when creating FAT16 or FAT32 filesystems, and improves detection of LVM2 PV and Btrfs change UUID capability.

GParted Live 0.29.0-1 is based on Debian Sid, runs Linux kernel 4.11.11

Shipping with the GParted 0.29.0 stable release at its core, GParted Live 0.29.0-1, a GNU/Linux distribution that lets anyone use GParted to manipulate disk drives independently of the operating system installed on the target computer, is based on the Debian Sid repository as of August 8, 2017, and runs Linux kernel 4.11.11.

On top of the new features brought by GParted 0.29.0, GParted Live 0.29.0-1 comes with the udftools tool and includes a patched version of the libparted library that fixes support for checking FAT32 crashes and the ability to resize FAT32 filesystems that aren't recognized by Microsoft Windows operating systems.

GParted 0.29.0 and GParted Live 0.29.0-1 are available for download right now through our website if you want to use them for all of your disk partitioning tasks, and it would appear that GParted Live was successfully tested on BIOS and UEFI PCs with AMD Radeon, NVidia, and Intel GPUs, as well as with VirtualBox and VMWare virtual machines.