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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [ |
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[3f8be484] | 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent"> |
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| 5 | %general-entities; |
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| 6 | ]> |
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| 7 | |
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| 8 | <sect1 id="ch-system-parted" role="wrap"> |
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| 9 | <?dbhtml filename="parted.html"?> |
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| 10 | |
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| 11 | <title>Parted-&parted-version;</title> |
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| 12 | |
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| 13 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-parted"> |
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| 14 | <primary sortas="a-Parted">Parted</primary> |
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| 15 | </indexterm> |
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| 16 | |
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| 17 | <sect2 role="package"> |
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| 18 | <title/> |
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| 19 | |
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| 20 | <para>Parted is a program for creating, copying and modifying partitions, |
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| 21 | and the file systems on them. Parted is especially useful on PPC machines |
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| 22 | in that, unlike <command>fdisk</command>, it accurately reads Macintosh |
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| 23 | partition maps.</para> |
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| 24 | |
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| 25 | </sect2> |
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| 26 | |
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| 27 | <sect2 role="installation"> |
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| 28 | <title>Installation of Parted</title> |
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| 29 | |
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[55ab27c] | 30 | <para os="a">Prepare Parted for compilation:</para> |
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[3f8be484] | 31 | |
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[fcab750] | 32 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-Werror</userinput></screen> |
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| 33 | |
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| 34 | <variablelist os="b"> |
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| 35 | <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title> |
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| 36 | |
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| 37 | <varlistentry os="b1"> |
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| 38 | <term><parameter>--disable-Werror</parameter></term> |
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| 39 | <listitem> |
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| 40 | <para>The Makefile defaults to using -Werror. With <package>gcc&gcc-version;</package> |
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| 41 | that flag causes it to treat warnings (in this case, that C99 inline functions will |
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| 42 | be compiled as GNU89) as errors. So, we disable the option.</para> |
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| 43 | </listitem> |
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| 44 | </varlistentry> |
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| 45 | |
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| 46 | </variablelist> |
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[3f8be484] | 47 | |
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[55ab27c] | 48 | <para os="c">Compile the Parted package:</para> |
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[3f8be484] | 49 | |
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[55ab27c] | 50 | <screen os="d"><userinput>make</userinput></screen> |
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[3f8be484] | 51 | |
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[55ab27c] | 52 | <para os="e">Install the package:</para> |
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[3f8be484] | 53 | |
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[55ab27c] | 54 | <screen os="f"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen> |
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[3f8be484] | 55 | |
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| 56 | </sect2> |
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| 57 | |
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| 58 | <sect2 id="contents-parted" role="content"> |
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| 59 | <title>Contents of Parted</title> |
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| 60 | |
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| 61 | <segmentedlist> |
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| 62 | <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle> |
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[2c6d8c4] | 63 | <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle> |
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[3f8be484] | 64 | |
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| 65 | <seglistitem> |
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[675ccbf] | 66 | <seg>parted, partprobe</seg> |
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[2c6d8c4] | 67 | <seg>libparted.[a,so]</seg> |
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[3f8be484] | 68 | </seglistitem> |
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| 69 | </segmentedlist> |
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| 70 | |
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| 71 | <variablelist> |
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| 72 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead> |
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| 73 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?> |
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| 74 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?> |
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| 75 | |
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| 76 | <varlistentry id="parted"> |
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| 77 | <term><command>parted</command></term> |
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| 78 | <listitem> |
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[675ccbf] | 79 | <para>A program for creating, destroying, resizing, checking and |
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| 80 | copying partitions, and the filesystems on them. This is useful |
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| 81 | for creating space for new operating systems, reorganising disk |
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| 82 | usage, copying data between hard disks, and disk imaging.</para> |
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[3f8be484] | 83 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-parted parted"> |
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| 84 | <primary sortas="e-parted">parted</primary> |
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| 85 | </indexterm> |
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| 86 | </listitem> |
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| 87 | </varlistentry> |
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| 88 | |
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[675ccbf] | 89 | <varlistentry id="partprobe"> |
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| 90 | <term><command>partprobe</command></term> |
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| 91 | <listitem> |
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| 92 | <para>Informs the OS of partition table changes.</para> |
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| 93 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-parted partprobe"> |
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| 94 | <primary sortas="e-partprobe">partprobe</primary> |
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| 95 | </indexterm> |
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| 96 | </listitem> |
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| 97 | </varlistentry> |
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| 98 | |
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[2c6d8c4] | 99 | <varlistentry id="libparted"> |
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| 100 | <term><filename class="libraryfile">libparted</filename></term> |
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| 101 | <listitem> |
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| 102 | <para>A library to manipulate partitions.</para> |
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| 103 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-parted libparted"> |
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| 104 | <primary sortas="c-libparted">libparted</primary> |
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| 105 | </indexterm> |
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| 106 | </listitem> |
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| 107 | </varlistentry> |
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| 108 | |
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[3f8be484] | 109 | </variablelist> |
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| 110 | |
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| 111 | </sect2> |
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| 112 | |
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| 113 | </sect1> |
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