%general-entities; ]> Parted-&parted-version; Parted <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> </sect2> <sect2 role="installation"> <title>Installation of Parted Prepare Parted for compilation: ./configure \ --prefix=/usr \ --disable-device-mapper The meaning of the configure options: --disable-device-mapper This disables the use of the device-mapper library, which we do not install in CLFS. Compile the Parted package: make Install the package: make install Contents of Parted Installed programs Installed libraries parted, partprobe libparted.[a,so] Short Descriptions parted A program for creating, destroying, resizing, checking and copying partitions, and the filesystems on them. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganising disk usage, copying data between hard disks, and disk imaging. parted partprobe Informs the OS of partition table changes. partprobe libparted A library to manipulate partitions. libparted