Parted

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Download Source: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/parted-2.3.tar.bz2
Download Source: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/parted-1.7.1.tar.bz2 (See Dependencies section below)

Introduction to Parted

Parted is a package that provides utilities for creating, destroying, resizing, checking and copying partitions and the file systems on the partitions. Parted provides a command-line interface that also serves as a sample implementation and script backend. The library allow the use of a GUI, such as GParted or QTParted, for the front end to parted.

Dependencies

NOTE: The version of HAL currently provided by CBLFS is 0.5.8.1. This version of HAL specifically looks for Parted-1.7.1.

Non-Multilib

Compile the package:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

Install the package

make install

Multilib

32Bit

Compile the package:

CC="gcc ${BUILD32}" ./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

Install the package

make install

N32

Compile the package:

CC="gcc ${BUILDN32}" ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib32 &&
make

Install the package

make install

64Bit

Compile the package:

CC="gcc ${BUILD64}" ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 &&
make

Install the package

make install

Contents

Installed Directories: ???
Installed Programs: Parted
Installed Libraries: libparted

Short Descriptions

Parted Command line utility to manipulate disk partitions and associated file systems.
libparted Library containing disk and file system manipulation functions.