openSUSE Recommended Update: parted: Fix "/proc/partitions" left outdated after modification of partition table ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-RU-2010:0127-1 Rating: moderate References: #539521 #567652 Affected Products: openSUSE 11.2 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that has two recommended fixes can now be installed. Description: Race condition in parted might cause /proc/partitions being outdated after modification of partition table. Mismatches between partition layouts "on disk" and "in kernel data" can lead to data loss. This bug is fixed by this update. This update also contains a fix for reiserfs superblock handling during resize (bnc#567652) Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Recommended Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE 11.2: zypper in -t patch parted-2296 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - openSUSE 11.2 (i586 src x86_64): parted-1.9.0-3.7.1 - openSUSE 11.2 (i586 x86_64): parted-devel-1.9.0-3.7.1 - openSUSE 11.2 (x86_64): parted-32bit-1.9.0-3.7.1 - openSUSE 11.2 (noarch): parted-lang-1.9.0-3.7.1 References: https://bugzilla.novell.com/539521 https://bugzilla.novell.com/567652