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Leslie Patrick Polzer * parts of 1.6.24 PedUnit API * GPT pth_* functions and block size fixes * PED_SECTOR_SIZE -> PED_SECTOR_SIZE_DEFAULT * debugging framework * ext2 "strange layout" fix (experimental) * support for physical block sizes * SCO BFS support http://nic-nac-project.de/~skypher/ Snail Mail: Am Kirchberg 15 89537 Giengen Germany Andrew Clausen * all FAT code (libparted/fs_fat) * all linux-swap code (libparted/fs_linux_swap) * some reiserfs glue code (libparted/fs_reiserfs) with Umanets * most of the API (with lots of discussion with Lennert Buytenhek) (include/parted/*) * generic filesystem code (filesys.c) and device code (device.c) * exception code (exception.c, debug.c) * partition table code (disk.c) * dos partition support (disk_dos.c) * mac partition support (disk_mac.c) * mips partition support (disk_mips.c) * loopback support (disk_loop.c) * some of the PC98 code (disk_pc98.c), with Masahiro Sakai. * misc. hacking on all disk_*.c code * low-level I/O code (device.c, geom.c, linux.c) - init_scsi() stolen from gnome-gfdisk via Matt Wilson. * constraint solver (natmath.c, constraint.c) * command-line, and fdisk-like frontend (parted/*) * stubs for ntfs, hfs, xfs * hacked on libparted/fs_ext2 a fair bit (bug fixes, error handling, support for > 1024 groups, etc.) * libparted/mbr.s (the MBR boot loader code) * misc hacking on GNU/Hurd port * major surgery on GUID Partition Table (GPT) support (disk_gpt.[ch]) * progress meter support (libparted/timer.c include/parted/timer.h) Snail mail: 18 Shaw St Ashwood, 3147 Australia Lennert Buytenhek * original ext2 code (libparted/fs_ext2) * discussion/ideas for API Matthew Wilson * basis of partition table and device code (disk.c, disk_dos.c, and device.c) Has morphed into something that looks completely different now :-) * bug fixes * BSD disklabel support (disk_bsd.c) * Python bindings to libparted * Don't detect AIX physical volumes as msdos partition tables * Code for manipulating AIX PVs Martin von Löwis * German translations Baty Jean-Marc * French translations Hiroshi Takekawa * Japanese translations Eliphas Levy Theodoro * Brazillian Portugese translations Dmitry S. Sivachenko * Russian translations Timshel Knoll * man pages (parted.8 partprobe.8) * bug fixes Ivo Timmermans * Dutch translations Ryoji Kawagishi * Japanese translation of doc/USER (user documentation) (replaced by Okuji's version, now) Okuji Yoshinori * doc/USER.jp * contributions to Japanese translations Masahiro Sakai * most of the PC98 support (disk_pc98.c), with Andrew Clausen * lots of tedious work on parted/strlist.c Damien Genet * parted.m4 Ben Collins * Sun disk label support (libparted/disk_sun.c) * stubs for UFS Vincent Stelhé * move syntax patch (make END specification optional). Trivial for copyright purposes (no disclaimer needed) Neal H Walfield * GNU/Hurd port - libparted/gnu.c Thomas Roelz * misc bug fixes Matt Domsch * GUID Partition Table (GPT) support (disk_gpt.[ch], crc32.[ch]) * misc bug fixes, including end-of-device workaround in libparted/linux.c Kjetil Torgrim Homme * Norweigen translations Jörgen Tegnér * Swedish translations Keld Simonsen * Danish translations Richard M. Kreuter * converted doc/USER to texinfo (doc/parted.texi) Miquel Matas * Catalan translations Andreas Dilger * lots of mix bug fixes/cleanups Vicente E. Llorens * Spanish translations Yury Umanets * basis of libparted/fs_reiserfs Bernardo João Torres da Silveira * pt_BR translation of FAQ and parted.texi Wojciech Polak * Polish translations Miloslav Trmac * Czech translations Maxim V. Dziumanenko * Ukrainian translations Giuseppe Sacco * Italian translations Guillaume Knispel * nearly all hfs and hfs+ code (libparted/fs_hfs) * hfs+ support for mac partitions (disk_mac.c) * sync_fast code (linux.c gnu.c geom.[ch] device.[ch] ) * various fixes (parted.c ui.c filesys.c disk_dos.c disk.c doc/parted.texi doc/API disk_gpt.c disk_mac.c unit.c fs_fat/traverse.c) Chris Lumens * interactive help fixes for filesystem types * gcc-4 pedanticism cleanups Wei-Lun Chao * Taiwanese dialect of Chinese (Cantonese?) translations. Tran Thi Hoang Quyen * Vietnamese translations Eduardo Maestri Righes * hidden partitions support * setting MS Reserved partitions through "set" command. Arif E. Nugroho * Indonesian translations Ithamar R. Adema * BeOS support David Cantrell * Added support for Promise SX8 devices (original patch from Jeremy Katz ) * Brought IBM/Red Hat DASD patches forward to parted-1.7.x Original IBM authors: Volker Sameske Horst Hummel Original Red Hat authors: Phil Knirsch Harald Hoyer * Prevent SIGFPE when FAT sector size is 0 * Add virtual DASD (VIODASD) on iSeries support * Use O_DIRECT I/O to prevent first partition corruption on GPT disks * Prevent sector reading exceptions from ped_geometry_check() on Mac disklabels. * Various bug fixes and other things. Peter Jones * Add ped_exception_get_handler() * /dev/mapper read/write support on Linux (via libdevmapper) Darren Lavender * Fix SIGSEGV in parted 1.6.19 and assertion error in 1.7.0 * Add support for LUN/device resize detection and option GPT header corruption * Fixed off-by-one error in GPT header that allowed for overlap between LDAs of LastUsableLBA and PartitionEntryLBA in backup GPT Olaf Hering * Fixes for Macintosh disk label code Debarshi Ray * Display disk model and transport type in parted(8). * '--list/-l' command line switch. * Introduce 'print devices' and alias 'print list' to 'print all'. * Alias 'mktable' to 'mklabel'. * Code and API clean-up, bug fixes, and other miscellaneous stuff. Harald Welte * SD/MMC Storage card support on Linux