source: BOOK/final-system/ppc/parted.xml@ b1448646

clfs-3.0.0-systemd clfs-3.0.0-sysvinit systemd sysvinit
Last change on this file since b1448646 was 6621fca, checked in by Jim Gifford <clfs@…>, 15 years ago

Updates to parted in PPC, we disable the use of the device-mapper library.

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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-system-parted" role="wrap">
9 <?dbhtml filename="parted.html"?>
10
11 <title>Parted-&parted-version;</title>
12
13 <indexterm zone="ch-system-parted">
14 <primary sortas="a-Parted">Parted</primary>
15 </indexterm>
16
17 <sect2 role="package">
18 <title/>
19
20 <para>Parted is a program for creating, copying and modifying partitions,
21 and the file systems on them. Parted is especially useful on PPC machines
22 in that, unlike <command>fdisk</command>, it accurately reads Macintosh
23 partition maps.</para>
24
25 </sect2>
26
27 <sect2 role="installation">
28 <title>Installation of Parted</title>
29
30 <para os="a">Prepare Parted for compilation:</para>
31
32<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-device-mapper</userinput></screen>
33
34 <variablelist os="b">
35 <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
36
37 <varlistentry os="b1">
38 <term><parameter>--disable-device-mapper</parameter></term>
39 <listitem>
40 <para>This disables the use of the device-mapper library, which we do
41 not install in CLFS.</para>
42 </listitem>
43 </varlistentry>
44
45 </variablelist>
46
47 <para os="c">Compile the Parted package:</para>
48
49<screen os="d"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
50
51 <para os="e">Install the package:</para>
52
53<screen os="f"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
54
55 </sect2>
56
57 <sect2 id="contents-parted" role="content">
58 <title>Contents of Parted</title>
59
60 <segmentedlist>
61 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
62 <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
63
64 <seglistitem>
65 <seg>parted, partprobe</seg>
66 <seg>libparted.[a,so]</seg>
67 </seglistitem>
68 </segmentedlist>
69
70 <variablelist>
71 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
72 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
73 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
74
75 <varlistentry id="parted">
76 <term><command>parted</command></term>
77 <listitem>
78 <para>A program for creating, destroying, resizing, checking and
79 copying partitions, and the filesystems on them. This is useful
80 for creating space for new operating systems, reorganising disk
81 usage, copying data between hard disks, and disk imaging.</para>
82 <indexterm zone="ch-system-parted parted">
83 <primary sortas="e-parted">parted</primary>
84 </indexterm>
85 </listitem>
86 </varlistentry>
87
88 <varlistentry id="partprobe">
89 <term><command>partprobe</command></term>
90 <listitem>
91 <para>Informs the OS of partition table changes.</para>
92 <indexterm zone="ch-system-parted partprobe">
93 <primary sortas="e-partprobe">partprobe</primary>
94 </indexterm>
95 </listitem>
96 </varlistentry>
97
98 <varlistentry id="libparted">
99 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libparted</filename></term>
100 <listitem>
101 <para>A library to manipulate partitions.</para>
102 <indexterm zone="ch-system-parted libparted">
103 <primary sortas="c-libparted">libparted</primary>
104 </indexterm>
105 </listitem>
106 </varlistentry>
107
108 </variablelist>
109
110 </sect2>
111
112</sect1>
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