GParted Live 1.7 Launches with Experimental Bcachefs Support, Linux 6.12 LTS
Coming almost a year after GParted 1.6, the GParted 1.7 release is here to introduce experimental support for the Bcachefs file system (for single device file systems only), support for recognizing NBDs (Network Block Devices), and a new mechanism that prevents GParted probe from starting LVM volume groups.
GParted 1.7 also improves support for the exFAT partitions by reading file system usage from exfatprogs 1.2.3 or later, increases the minimum required version of the libparted library to 3.2, fixes a hang when searching partitions if btrfs-progs is not installed, updates the CI jobs for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Rocky Linux 8, and fixes serial number for USB keys showing binary data.
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GParted 1.7 Released with Bcachefs Support and NBD Recognition
GParted (GNOME Partition Editor), the well-known free and open-source partition management tool for Linux, which provides a graphical interface for creating, resizing, moving, deleting, and formatting disk partitions, has officially launched version 1.7 with various enhancements, important bug fixes, and fresh language updates.
One of the most noteworthy additions is experimental support for Bcachefs, albeit restricted to single-device file systems. Another significant improvement is the tool’s new capability to recognize NBDs (Network Block Devices), making partition management more robust for remote storage users.
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GParted 1.7.0
This release of GParted includes enhancements, bug fixes and language translation updates.
Key changes include:- Recognise NBDs (Network Block Devices)
- Add support for Bcachefs (experimental), single device file systems only
- Prevent GParted probe starting LVM Volume Groups
- Increase minimum required version of libparted to 3.2
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