Fedora 15 Update: ntfs-3g-2011.4.12-5.fc15

Wed Sep 21 00:03:07 UTC 2011

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-12608
2011-09-13 04:20:34
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Name        : ntfs-3g
Product     : Fedora 15
Version     : 2011.4.12
Release     : 5.fc15
URL         : http://www.ntfs-3g.org/
Summary     : Linux NTFS userspace driver
Description :
NTFS-3G is a stable, open source, GPL licensed, POSIX, read/write NTFS
driver for Linux and many other operating systems. It provides safe
handling of the Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Windows
Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 NTFS file systems. NTFS-3G can
create, remove, rename, move files, directories, hard links, and streams;
it can read and write normal and transparently compressed files, including
streams and sparse files; it can handle special files like symbolic links,
devices, and FIFOs, ACL, extended attributes; moreover it provides full
file access right and ownership support.

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Update Information:

Fix ntfsck symlink
* fix issue preventing some volume types from not working properly (bz735862)
* create fsck.ntfs symlink to ntfsck (bz735612).
* apply cleanups from git trunk for ntfsck (bz 706638)
* apply cleanups from git trunk for ntfsfix (bz 711662, 723562)

* fix issue preventing some volume types from not working properly (bz735862)
* create fsck.ntfs symlink to ntfsck (bz735612).
* apply cleanups from git trunk for ntfsck (bz 706638)
* apply cleanups from git trunk for ntfsfix (bz 711662, 723562)

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ChangeLog:

* Mon Sep 12 2011 Tom Callaway <spot at fedoraproject.org> - 2:2011.4.12-5
- fix ntfsck symlink (thanks to Chris Smart for catching it)
* Wed Sep  7 2011 Tom Callaway <spot at fedoraproject.org> - 2:2011.4.12-4
- fix issue preventing some volume types from not working properly (bz735862)
- create fsck.ntfs symlink to ntfsck (bz735612).
- apply cleanups from git trunk for ntfsck (bz 706638)
- apply cleanups from git trunk for ntfsfix (bz 711662, 723562)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #735862 - ntfs volumes do not work with truecrypt/realcrypt
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735862
  [ 2 ] Bug #735612 - ntfsprogs does not provide fsck.ntfs
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735612
  [ 3 ] Bug #706638 - [abrt] ntfsprogs-2:2011.4.12-3.fc14: ntfs_boot_sector_parse: Process /bin/ntfsck was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706638
  [ 4 ] Bug #711662 - [abrt] ntfsprogs-2011.4.12-3.fc15: __libc_free: Process /bin/ntfsfix was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=711662
  [ 5 ] Bug #723562 - [abrt] ntfsprogs-2011.4.12-3.fc15: __GI_raise: Process /bin/ntfsfix was killed by signal 6 (SIGABRT)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723562
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update ntfs-3g' at the command line.
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available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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