%general-entities; ]> $Date$ Gparted Gparted is the Gnome Partition Editor, a Gtk 3 GUI for other command line tools that can create, reorganise or delete disk partitions. &lfs101_checked; Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &gparted-md5sum; Download size: &gparted-size; Estimated disk space required: &gparted-buildsize; Estimated build time: &gparted-time; Gparted Dependencies Required and Optional (if using a btrfs filesystem), exfatprogs, and udftools User Notes: Install Gparted by running the following commands: ./configure --prefix=/usr \ --disable-doc \ --disable-static && make To run the tests, issue: make check. Now, as the root user: make install --disable-doc: This switch disables building of the optional documentation. Remove it if you have installed GNOME Doc Utils. --enable-xhost-root: This switch provides an interim workaround to allow GParted to run under Wayland by using xhost to grant and revoke root access to the X11 display. To manipulate file systems Gparted has a run time dependency on various file system tools (you only need to install the tools for file systems you actually use): (required for optionally displaying serial number device information), , , e2fsprogs (installed as part of LFS), , , , , mtools (required to read and write FAT16/32 volume labels and UUIDs), hfsutils, hfsprogs, nilfs-utils and Reiser4progs. Root privileges are required to run Gparted. If you wish to run the application from the menu, further applications and configurations are necessary. Examples of applications that may be used: gksu, kdesudo, or xdg-su. Another simple solution is . To optionally use if it is installed in your system, run the following commands as the root user: cp -v /usr/share/applications/gparted.desktop /usr/share/applications/gparted.desktop.back && sed -i 's/Exec=/Exec=sudo -A /' /usr/share/applications/gparted.desktop Now, clicking on the menu item for Gparted, a dialog appears on the screen, asking for the administrator password. Installed Programs Installed Libraries Installed Directories gparted, gpartedbin and gparted_polkit (optional) None None Short Descriptions gparted is a shell script which sets up the environment before calling gpartedbin gparted gpartedbin is the Gparted binary gpartedbin gparted_polkit is an optional script which can be used to run gparted with polkit, from a menu gparted_polkit