Fedora 17 Update: parted-3.0-9.fc17

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-4482
2012-03-23 00:33:22
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Name        : parted
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 3.0
Release     : 9.fc17
URL         : http://www.gnu.org/software/parted
Summary     : The GNU disk partition manipulation program
Description :
The GNU Parted program allows you to create, destroy, resize, move,
and copy hard disk partitions. Parted can be used for creating space
for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, and copying data
to new hard disks.

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Update Information:

If a disk has no PMBR it is not a valid GPT disk. Treat it as msdos.
Fix assertion in mac label probe code.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #805272 - failure to honor valid legacy MBR when stale GPT is present
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=805272
  [ 2 ] Bug #800235 - FTBFS: parted's t9050-partition-table-types.sh test that worked last month now fails
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800235
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
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