%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ Gparted Gparted is the Gnome Partition Editor, a Gtk 2 GUI for other command line tools that can create, reorganise or delete disk partitions. &lfs78_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 GNOME Doc Utils and User Notes: Install Gparted by running the following commands: ./configure --prefix=/usr \ --disable-doc \ --disable-static && make This package does not come with a testsuite. 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. 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 display serial number device information), e2fsprogs (installed as part of LFS), , , , , btrfs-progs, dosfstools, 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. Other solution is to use pkexec, from , but some configuration is necessary. Another simple solution is . Below, we describe these two alternatives: "ssh-askpass" and "pkexec". 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 in the menu item for Gparted, a dialog appears in the screen, asking for the administrator password. To optionally use pkexec, you need , and installed with support to and . As the root user, configure and with the following commands: cp -v /usr/share/applications/gparted.desktop \ /usr/share/applications/gparted.desktop.back && sed -i 's:/usr/sbin/gparted:/usr/sbin/gparted_polkit:' \ /usr/share/applications/gparted.desktop && cat > /usr/sbin/gparted_polkit << "EOF" && #!/bin/bash pkexec /usr/sbin/gparted $@ EOF chmod -v 0755 /usr/sbin/gparted_polkit Still as the root user, configure and to use pkexec: cat > /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.gnome.gparted.policy << "EOF" <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE policyconfig PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD PolicyKit Policy Configuration 1.0//EN" "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/PolicyKit/1/policyconfig.dtd"> <policyconfig> <action id="org.freedesktop.policykit.pkexec.run-gparted"> <description>Run GParted</description> <message>Authentication is required to run GParted</message> <defaults> <allow_any>no</allow_any> <allow_inactive>no</allow_inactive> <allow_active>auth_admin_keep</allow_active> </defaults> <annotate key="org.freedesktop.policykit.exec.path">/usr/sbin/gparted</annotate> <annotate key="org.freedesktop.policykit.exec.allow_gui">true</annotate> </action> </policyconfig> EOF chmod -v 0644 /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.gnome.gparted.policy Now, clicking in the menu item for Gparted, a dialog appears in the screen, asking for the administrator password. Installed Programs Installed Libraries Installed Directories gparted, gpartedbin and gparted_polkit (optional) None /usr/share/gnome/help/gparted and /usr/share/omf/gparted 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