The Parted package is a disk partitioning and partition resizing tool.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-11.0 platform.
Download (HTTP): https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/parted-3.4.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/parted-3.4.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 357d19387c6e7bc4a8a90fe2d015fe80
Download size: 1.7 MB
Estimated disk space required: 34 MB (additional 3 MB for the tests and additional 2 MB for optional PDF and Postscript documentation)
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU (additional 2.5 SBU for the tests)
LVM2-2.03.13 (device-mapper, required if building udisks)
dosfstools-4.2, Pth-2.0.7, texlive-20210325 (or install-tl-unx), and Digest::CRC (for tests)
User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/parted
Install Parted by running the following commands:
./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-20210325 installed and wish to create PDF and Postcript documentation issue the following commands:
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
![[Note]](../images/note.png)
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-3.4/html &&
install -v -m644 doc/html/* \
/usr/share/doc/parted-3.4/html &&
install -v -m644 doc/{FAT,API,parted.{txt,html}} \
/usr/share/doc/parted-3.4
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-3.4
--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.
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