Re: [Gptfdisk-general] gdisk or cgdisk change name of partition UTF-16 problem

[Rod S. <rod...@ro...>]

On 06/08/2012 12:19 AM, Joe van Tunen wrote:
> I'm running gdisk 0.8.5 on Mac OS X 10.7.4.
>
> I get errors when attempting to change a partition name. If I don't get an
> error, the partition appears to have no name after the change.
>
> Command (? for help): p
>    15       936110296       937134295   500.0 MiB   AF00  Shell
>
> Command (? for help): c
> Partition number (1-15): 15
> Enter name: My New Name
> Bogus UTF-16 name found in GPTPart::SetName()! Name not changed!

Sorry for the delay in responding. I plan to release a new version of 
gdisk soon (maybe today, or at least in the next week or so), and this 
will be fixed; however, I'm doing this by disabling UTF-16 support for 
partition names on OS X, which has proven problematic.

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Rod Smith
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