GParted 0.26.1 Ensures Bootloaders Work on EXT4 Partitions Smaller Than 16 TB

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

GParted developer Curtis Gedak has announced the availability of the first point release for the GParted 0.26 open-source partition editor utility announced back in April 2016.

Launched on April 26, GParted 0.26.0 introduced some exciting new features and improvements, among which we can mention read-only support for encrypted filesystems with the LUKS method, as well as the implementation of a progress bar for file system copy methods supporting EXT2, EXT3, EXT4, XFS, and NTFS.

Additionally, the GParted 0.26.0 partition editor brought support for using only a single progress bar for the entire internal copy operation, the implementation of the partition object polymorphism, and fixes for many other issues reported by users since GParted 0.25.0.

One and a half month later, it appears that GParted 0.26.0 needed a maintenance release to bring support for bootloaders on 32-bit EXT4 filesystems that are smaller than 16 TiB, add support for multiple bootloaders on 64-b… (read more)

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