source: BOOK/final-system/ppc/parted.xml@ 84c7db2

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<sect1 id="ch-system-parted" role="wrap">
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  <title>Parted-&parted-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="ch-system-parted">
    <primary sortas="a-Parted">Parted</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title/>

    <para>Parted is a program for creating, copying and modifying partitions,
    and the file systems on them. Parted is especially useful on PPC machines
    in that, unlike <command>fdisk</command>, it accurately reads Macintosh
    partition maps.</para>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Glibc, Grep,
        Make, Ncurses, Sed</seg>
      </seglistitem>
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  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Parted</title>

    <para>Prepare Parted for compilation:</para>

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>

    <para>Compile the Parted package:</para>

<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>

    <para>Install the package:</para>

<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 id="contents-parted" role="content">
    <title>Contents of Parted</title>

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      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>

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        <seg>Unchecked</seg>
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      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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        <term><command>parted</command></term>
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          <para>Need Description</para>
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            <primary sortas="e-parted">parted</primary>
          </indexterm>
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