%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ Parted The Parted package is a disk partitioning and partition resizing tool. &lfs91_checked; Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &parted-md5sum; Download size: &parted-size; Estimated disk space required: &parted-buildsize; Estimated build time: &parted-time; Parted Dependencies Recommended (device-mapper, required if building udisks) Optional , , (or ), and Digest::CRC (for tests) User Notes: Install Parted by running the following commands: ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static && make && make -C doc html && makeinfo --html -o doc/html doc/parted.texi && makeinfo --plaintext -o doc/parted.txt doc/parted.texi If you have installed and wish to create PDF and Postcript documentation issue the following commands: texi2pdf -o doc/parted.pdf doc/parted.texi && texi2dvi -o doc/parted.dvi doc/parted.texi && dvips -o doc/parted.ps doc/parted.dvi If you wish to run the test suite, first remove a couple of tests that are known to fail in a BLFS environment. And, adjust two Python scripts to use Python 3, in case Python 2 is not installed: sed -i '/t0251-gpt-unicode.sh/d' tests/Makefile && sed -i '/t6002-dm-busy.sh/d' tests/Makefile && sed -i '1s/python/&3/' tests/{gpt-header-move,msdos-overlap} To test the results, issue, as the root user: make check Many tests are skipped if not run as the root user. Now, as the root user: make install && install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/parted-&parted-version;/html && install -v -m644 doc/html/* \ /usr/share/doc/parted-&parted-version;/html && install -v -m644 doc/{FAT,API,parted.{txt,html}} \ /usr/share/doc/parted-&parted-version; Install the optional PDF and Postscript documentation by issuing the following command as the root user: install -v -m644 doc/FAT doc/API doc/parted.{pdf,ps,dvi} \ /usr/share/doc/parted-&parted-version; --disable-device-mapper: This option disables device mapper support. Add this parameter if you have not installed LVM2. Installed Programs Installed Libraries Installed Directories parted and partprobe libparted.so and libparted-fs-resize.so /usr/include/parted and /usr/share/doc/parted-&parted-version; Short Descriptions parted is a partition manipulation program. parted partprobe informs the OS of partition table changes. partprobe libparted.so contains the Parted API functions. libparted.so