Parted-2.3

[Randy McMurchy]

Version increment to 2.3

​http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/

Notes:

1) make check requires ​http://sourceforge.net/projects/check/

2) if make check is not run as root many checks are skipped and there is one failure

3) it should be noted in the instructions that this package does not support the default LFS ext3 filesystem.

4)make docs

make -C doc html
makeinfo --html      -o doc/html       doc/parted.texi
makeinfo --plaintext -o doc/parted.txt doc/parted.texi

more docs (PDF, Postscript) can be built if there is a Tex installation

5)install docs

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 doc/API doc/parted.{texi,txt,html,pdf,ps,dvi} \
                    /usr/share/doc/parted-&parted-version;

[bdubbs@…]

Item 3 is unclear to me. Parted doesn't support ext3 or the make check doesn't support ext3?

Seems wrong that a gnu package wouldn't support the most common filesystem. Can you clarify?

[Randy McMurchy]

There is really nothing to clarify. The docs clearly point out that ext3 filesystems are not supported and it even says to use the e2fsprog tools to manipulate ext3 filesystems. I thought it strange as well, that is why I think it should be mentioned in the book.

For more information download the package and read the docs.

[Armin K]

Parted 3.0 is in BLFS SVN. Marking as fixed.

[bdubbs@…]

Milestone 6.7 deleted