source: postlfs/filesystems/parted.xml

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<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY parted-download-http "&gnu-http;/parted/parted-&parted-version;.tar.xz">
  <!ENTITY parted-download-ftp  " ">
  <!ENTITY parted-md5sum        "93d2d8f22baebc5eb65b85da05a79e4e">
  <!ENTITY parted-size          "1.8 MB">
  <!ENTITY parted-buildsize     "29 MB (additional 3 MB for the tests and additional 2 MB for optional PDF and Postscript documentation)">
  <!ENTITY parted-time          "0.3 SBU (additional 3.6 SBU for the tests)">
]>

<sect1 id="parted" xreflabel="parted-&parted-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="parted.html"?>


  <title>parted-&parted-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="parted">
    <primary sortas="a-parted">Parted</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to parted</title>

    <para>
      The <application>Parted</application> package is a disk partitioning and
      partition resizing tool.
    </para>

    &lfs121_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&parted-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&parted-download-ftp;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download MD5 sum: &parted-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download size: &parted-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated disk space required: &parted-buildsize;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated build time: &parted-time;
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
    <!--
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
        <listitem>
          <para>
             Optional, to fix build without device mapper support: <ulink
               url="&patch-root;/parted-&parted-version;-devmapper-1.patch"/>
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    This seems to be unneeded now. The fix was merged. -->
    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Parted Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended">
      <xref linkend="lvm2"/> (device-mapper, required if building
      <application>udisks</application>)
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="dosfstools"/>,
      <xref linkend="texlive"/> (or <xref linkend="tl-installer"/>), and
      <ulink url="https://metacpan.org/pod/Digest::CRC">Digest::CRC</ulink> (for tests)
    </para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="kernel" id="parted-kernel">
    <title>Optional Kernel Configuration for Tests</title>

    <para>
      About 20 % more tests are run if the following kernel module is built:
    </para>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
      href="parted-test-kernel.xml"/>

    <indexterm zone="parted parted-kernel">
      <primary sortas="d-parted">parted (testing)</primary>
    </indexterm>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of parted</title>
    <!--
    <para>
      If you want to build without device mapper support, a fix is necessary:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../parted-&parted-version;-devmapper-1.patch</userinput></screen>
    -->
    <para>
      Install <application>Parted</application> by running the following
      commands:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &amp;&amp;
make &amp;&amp;

make -C doc html                                       &amp;&amp;
makeinfo --html      -o doc/html       doc/parted.texi &amp;&amp;
makeinfo --plaintext -o doc/parted.txt doc/parted.texi</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      If you have <xref linkend="texlive"/> installed and wish to create
      PDF and Postscript documentation issue the following commands:
    </para>

<screen remap="doc"><userinput>cp build-aux/texinfo.tex doc               &amp;&amp;
texi2pdf -o doc/parted.pdf doc/parted.texi &amp;&amp;
texi2dvi -o doc/parted.dvi doc/parted.texi &amp;&amp;
dvips    -o doc/parted.ps  doc/parted.dvi</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      To test the results, issue, as the <systemitem
      class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"
        remap="test"><userinput>make check</userinput></screen>

<!-- For devs: several tests are skipped with the message
     "FS test with sector size != 512". This is expected since the same tests
     are run with simulated sector of 1024, 2048, and 4096 bytes; only the
     last group of tests is done with simulated sector size of 512, so that
     less tests are skipped.

     When I ran these tests over ssh, it really made my xfce environment
     unusable.  Restarting xfce fixed things, but I don't want to retry
     right now.  - Bruce
-->
    <note>
      <para>
        Many tests are skipped if not run as the <systemitem
        class="username">root</systemitem> user.
      </para>
    </note>

    <para>
      Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install &amp;&amp;
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/parted-&parted-version;/html &amp;&amp;
install -v -m644    doc/html/* \
                    /usr/share/doc/parted-&parted-version;/html &amp;&amp;
install -v -m644    doc/{FAT,API,parted.{txt,html}} \
                    /usr/share/doc/parted-&parted-version;</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      Install the optional PDF and Postscript documentation by issuing the
      following command as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
      user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"
        remap="doc"><userinput>install -v -m644 doc/FAT doc/API doc/parted.{pdf,ps,dvi} \
                    /usr/share/doc/parted-&parted-version;</userinput></screen>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
      href="../../xincludes/static-libraries.xml"/>

    <para>
      <option>--disable-device-mapper</option>: This option disables device
      mapper support. Add this parameter if you have not installed
      <application>LVM2</application>.
    </para>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>
          parted and
          partprobe
        </seg>
        <seg>
          libparted.so and
          libparted-fs-resize.so</seg>
        <seg>
          /usr/include/parted and
          /usr/share/doc/parted-&parted-version;</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="parted-prog">
        <term><command>parted</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a partition manipulation program
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="parted parted-prog">
            <primary sortas="b-parted">parted</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="partprobe">
        <term><command>partprobe</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            informs the OS of partition table changes
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="parted partprobe">
            <primary sortas="b-partprobe">partprobe</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libparted">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libparted.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            contains the <application>Parted</application> API functions
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="parted libparted">
            <primary sortas="c-libparted">libparted.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>
  </sect2>

</sect1>