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5 | %general-entities; |
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6 | ]> |
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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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30 | <para os="a">Prepare Parted for compilation:</para> |
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31 | |
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32 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-device-mapper</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-device-mapper</parameter></term> |
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39 | <listitem> |
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40 | <para>This disables the use of the device-mapper library, which we do |
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41 | not install in CLFS.</para> |
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42 | </listitem> |
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43 | </varlistentry> |
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44 | |
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45 | </variablelist> |
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46 | |
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47 | <para os="c">Compile the Parted package:</para> |
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48 | |
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49 | <screen os="d"><userinput>make</userinput></screen> |
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50 | |
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51 | <para os="e">Install the package:</para> |
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52 | |
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53 | <screen os="f"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen> |
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54 | |
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55 | </sect2> |
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56 | |
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57 | <sect2 id="contents-parted" role="content"> |
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58 | <title>Contents of Parted</title> |
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59 | |
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60 | <segmentedlist> |
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61 | <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle> |
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62 | <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle> |
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63 | |
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64 | <seglistitem> |
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65 | <seg>parted, partprobe</seg> |
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66 | <seg>libparted.[a,so]</seg> |
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67 | </seglistitem> |
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68 | </segmentedlist> |
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69 | |
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70 | <variablelist> |
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71 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead> |
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72 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?> |
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73 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?> |
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74 | |
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75 | <varlistentry id="parted"> |
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76 | <term><command>parted</command></term> |
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77 | <listitem> |
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78 | <para>A program for creating, destroying, resizing, checking and |
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79 | copying partitions, and the filesystems on them. This is useful |
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80 | for creating space for new operating systems, reorganising disk |
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81 | usage, copying data between hard disks, and disk imaging.</para> |
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82 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-parted parted"> |
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83 | <primary sortas="e-parted">parted</primary> |
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84 | </indexterm> |
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85 | </listitem> |
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86 | </varlistentry> |
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87 | |
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88 | <varlistentry id="partprobe"> |
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89 | <term><command>partprobe</command></term> |
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90 | <listitem> |
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91 | <para>Informs the OS of partition table changes.</para> |
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92 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-parted partprobe"> |
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93 | <primary sortas="e-partprobe">partprobe</primary> |
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94 | </indexterm> |
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95 | </listitem> |
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96 | </varlistentry> |
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97 | |
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98 | <varlistentry id="libparted"> |
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99 | <term><filename class="libraryfile">libparted</filename></term> |
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100 | <listitem> |
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101 | <para>A library to manipulate partitions.</para> |
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102 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-parted libparted"> |
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103 | <primary sortas="c-libparted">libparted</primary> |
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104 | </indexterm> |
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105 | </listitem> |
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106 | </varlistentry> |
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107 | |
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108 | </variablelist> |
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109 | |
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110 | </sect2> |
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111 | |
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112 | </sect1> |
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