The Parted package is a disk partitioning and partition resizing tool.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 12.2 platform.
Download (HTTP): https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/parted-3.6.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 93d2d8f22baebc5eb65b85da05a79e4e
Download size: 1.8 MB
Estimated disk space required: 29 MB (additional 3 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)
LVM2-2.03.26 (device-mapper, required if building udisks)
dosfstools-4.2, texlive-20240312 (or install-tl-unx), and Digest::CRC (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]
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-20240312 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
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-3.6/html && install -v -m644 doc/html/* \ /usr/share/doc/parted-3.6/html && install -v -m644 doc/{FAT,API,parted.{txt,html}} \ /usr/share/doc/parted-3.6
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-3.6
--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.