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GNU Parted |
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GNU Parted is a program for creating, destroying, resizing, checking and |
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copying partitions, and the filesystems on them. This is useful for creating |
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space for new operating systems, reorganising disk usage, copying data between |
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hard disks, and disk imaging. |
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* documentation is in the doc/ directory. The User's documentation is in |
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texinfo format, and is built into a format viewable by info/pinfo when |
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you run make. i.e. |
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$ ./configure |
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$ cd doc |
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$ make |
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$ info -f parted.info |
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Yes, it sucks that you need to run ./configure before you can read the manual. |
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If you have problems with it, doc/parted.texi should be fairly easy to read, |
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just a bit less userfriendly. |
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If you prefer html format, you can run: |
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$ cd doc |
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$ makeinfo --html parted.texi |
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* an online tutorial is available at http://www.luv.asn.au/overheads/parted |
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* the GNU Parted home page is http://www.gnu.org/software/parted |
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* the GNU Parted FAQ can be found at |
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http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/faq.html |
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* send bug reports, requests for help, feature requests, comments, etc. to |
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bug-parted@gnu.org. The authors can be contacted directly (see the AUTHORS |
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file). |
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NOTE TO DISTRIBUTIONS |
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(1) When compiling Parted for distribution for general use, we recommend using |
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the default configuration: |
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CFLAGS=-Os ./configure |
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This includes --enable-debug (by default), which contains many assertions. |
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Obviously, these "waste" space, but in the past, they have caught potentially |
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dangerous bugs before they would have done damage, so we think it's worth |
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it. Also, it means we get more bug reports ;) |
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(2) When doing dependencies, remember that libreiserfs is a *soft* dependency, |
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so I guess that means Debian-look-alikes should do a "suggests", but |
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not a "requires". |
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(3) When space is important, we suggest --without-readline, --disable-shared, |
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and possibly --disable-nls and --disable-dynamic-loading. |
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If Parted is only going to be used for probing / discovery (and not |
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"editing"), there is a --enable-discovery-only and --disable-fs (when you're |
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only interested in partition tables). Since it's readonly, --enable-debug |
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gains you nothing wrt safety, so use --disable-debug ;) The "discover" |
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program is about 35k (gzipped) when compiled this way (not counting libc |
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and libuuid). |
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