Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version r13.1-267

Chapter 5. File Systems and Disk Management

parted-3.8

Introduction to parted

The Parted package is a disk partitioning and partition resizing tool.

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Package Information

  • Download (HTTP): https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/parted/parted-3.8.tar.xz

  • Download MD5 sum: 3a27b24b137d46c81c6f5644e44dc86c

  • Download size: 2.0 MB

  • Estimated disk space required: 40 MB (additional 2 MB for the tests and additional 2 MB for optional PDF and Postscript documentation)

  • Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU (additional 3.6 SBU for the tests)

Parted Dependencies

Recommended

LVM2-2.03.42 (device-mapper, required if building udisks)

Optional

dosfstools-4.2, texlive-20260301 (or install-tl-unx), and Digest::CRC (for tests)

Optional Kernel Configuration for Tests

About 20 % more tests are run if the following kernel module is built: 

Device Drivers --->
  SCSI device support --->
    [*] SCSI low-level drivers --->                              [SCSI_LOWLEVEL]
      <M> SCSI debugging host and device simulator                  [SCSI_DEBUG]

Installation of parted

Install Parted by running the following commands:

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Do not add --disable-debug; parted's security fixes for CVE-2026-89085 and CVE-2026-89088 rely on assertions that are only compiled in when debugging support is enabled (the default). 

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make &&

make -C doc html                                       &&
makeinfo --html      -o doc/html       doc/parted.texi &&
makeinfo --plaintext -o doc/parted.txt doc/parted.texi

If you have texlive-20260301 installed and wish to create PDF and Postscript documentation issue the following commands: 

cp build-aux/texinfo.tex doc               &&
texi2pdf -o doc/parted.pdf doc/parted.texi &&
texi2dvi -o doc/parted.dvi doc/parted.texi &&
dvips    -o doc/parted.ps  doc/parted.dvi

To test the results, issue, as the root user: 

make check
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Many tests are skipped if not run as the root user.

Now, as the root user: 

make install &&
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/parted-3.8/html &&
install -v -m644    doc/html/* \
                    /usr/share/doc/parted-3.8/html &&
install -v -m644    doc/{FAT,API.md,parted.{txt,html}} \
                    /usr/share/doc/parted-3.8

Install the optional PDF and Postscript documentation by issuing the following command as the root user: 

install -v -m644 doc/FAT doc/API doc/parted.{pdf,ps,dvi} \
                    /usr/share/doc/parted-3.8

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--disable-device-mapper: This option disables device mapper support. Add this parameter if you have not installed LVM2.

Contents

Installed Programs: parted and partprobe
Installed Libraries: libparted.so and libparted-fs-resize.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/parted and /usr/share/doc/parted-3.8

Short Descriptions

parted

is a partition manipulation program

partprobe

informs the OS of partition table changes

libparted.so

contains the Parted API functions