openSUSE Recommended Update: parted: Fix "/proc/partitions" left outdated after modification of partition table ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-RU-2010:0128-1 Rating: moderate References: #539521 Affected Products: openSUSE 11.1 openSUSE 11.0 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that has one recommended fix 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 Description: Race condition in parted might cause /proc/partitions being outdated after modification of partition table.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 is fixed by this update. Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Recommended Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE 11.1: zypper in -t patch parted-2295 - openSUSE 11.0: zypper in -t patch parted-2300 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - openSUSE 11.1 (i586 ppc src x86_64): parted-1.8.8-91.12.1 - openSUSE 11.1 (i586 ppc x86_64): parted-devel-1.8.8-91.12.1 - openSUSE 11.1 (x86_64): parted-32bit-1.8.8-91.12.1 - openSUSE 11.1 (ppc): parted-64bit-1.8.8-91.12.1 - openSUSE 11.0 (i586 ppc src x86_64): parted-1.8.8-46.5 - openSUSE 11.0 (i586 ppc x86_64): parted-devel-1.8.8-46.5 - openSUSE 11.0 (x86_64): parted-32bit-1.8.8-46.5 - openSUSE 11.0 (ppc): parted-64bit-1.8.8-46.5 References: https://bugzilla.novell.com/539521