The Live CD uses the Linux 4.7.6 kernel and e2fsprogs 1.43.3

Oct 23, 2016 21:30 GMT  ·  By

Just one day after announcing the release of the GParted 0.27.0 open-source partition editor software, Curtis Gedak is informing us about the availability of the GParted Live 0.27.0-1 stable release.

For those not aware, Gparted Live is an open source project that aims to offer users a Debian-based Live CD distribution built around the GParted application, which can be used for manipulating (partition, merge, split, format, etc.) disk drives independent of the operating system installed on the target computer.

As mentioned before, GParted Live 0.27.0-1 is the latest stable release, and it ships with GParted 0.27.0, which brings automatic detection of GRUB2 core.img files, addresses an issue with the Mount Point column on OpenSuSE distributions and fixes a bunch of bugs reported by users since the previous maintenance update, namely GParted 0.26.1.

Apart from the GParted 0.27.0 software, the GParted Live 0.27.0-1 release ships with up-to-date software components from the Debian Sid (Unstable) repositories released as of October 20, 2016, the Linux 4.7.6 kernel, which is now EOL, as well as the e2fsprogs 1.43.3 package with better support for resizing EXT2, EXT3, and EXT4 filesystems.

"This release includes GParted 0.27.0, patches for libparted for FAT file system operations, and other improvements," said Curtis Gedak in the release announcement. "This release of GParted Live has been successfully tested on VirtualBox, VMWare, BIOS, UEFI, and physical computers with AMD/ATI, NVidia, and Intel graphics."

Last but not least, GParted Live 0.27.0-1, which users can download right now via our website as Live ISO images, includes a patched version of the libparted library, addressing crashes when attempting to check FAT32 formatted filesystems, and support for detection of FAT32 resized partitions on Windows OSes.