GPARTED ======= Gparted is the GNOME Partition Editor for creating, reorganizing, and deleting disk partitions. A hard disk is usually subdivided into one or more partitions. These partitions are normally not re-sizable (making one smaller and the adjacent one larger.) Gparted makes it possible for you to take a hard disk and change the partition organization, while preserving the partition contents. More specifically, Gparted enables you to create, destroy, resize, move, check, label, and copy partitions, and the file systems contained within. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, and mirroring one partition with another (disk imaging). Gparted can also be used with storage devices other than hard disks, such as USB flash drives, and memory cards. Visit http://gparted.org for more information. LICENSING --------- GParted is released under the General Public License version 2, or (at your option) any later version. (GPLv2+). All files are released under the GPLv2+ unless explicitly licensed otherwise. The GParted Manual is released under the GNU Free Documentation License version 1.2 or any later version. (GFDLv1.2+). See these files for more details: COPYING - GNU General Public License version 2 COPYING-DOCS - GNU Free Documentation License version 1.2 NEWS ---- Information about changes to this release, and past releases can be found in the file: NEWS INSTALL ------- a. Pre-built Binary Many GNU/Linux distributions already provide a pre-built binary package for GParted. Instructions on how to install GParted on some distributions is given below: Debian or Ubuntu ---------------- sudo apt-get install gparted Fedora or CentOS/RHEL --------------------- su - yum install gparted OpenSUSE -------- sudo zypper install gparted b. Building from Source Briefly, build and install GParted into the default location of /usr/local using: ./configure make sudo make install This assumes all the dependencies are already installed and builds the default configuration. The following dependencies are required to build GParted from source: g++ e2fsprogs parted gnome-common gtkmm24 gettext gnome-doc-utils - required if help documentation is to be built On Debian or Ubuntu, these dependencies may be obtained by running one of the following commands: Either; sudo apt-get build-dep gparted Or; sudo apt-get install build-essential e2fsprogs uuid uuid-dev \ gnome-common libparted-dev libgtkmm-2.4-dev \ libdevmapper-dev gnome-doc-utils docbook-xml On Fedora, you will need to run (as root); yum install gtkmm24-devel parted-devel e2fsprogs-devel gettext \ 'perl(XML::Parser)' desktop-file-utils libuuid-devel \ gnome-doc-utils docbook-dtds rarian-compat intltool \ gnome-common gcc-c++ yum groupinstall 'Development Tools' On openSUSE, these dependencies may be obtained by running the following commands; sudo zypper install automake autoconf make gnome-common \ libuuid-devel parted-devel gtkmm2-devel \ gnome-doc-utils-devel docbook-xsl-stylesheets sudo zypper install -t pattern devel_c_c++ Again, build GParted with the default configuration and install into the default location of /usr/local using: ./configure make sudo make install If you wish to build this package without the help documentation use the --disable-doc flag: E.g., ./configure --disable-doc If you wish to build this package for use on a desktop that does not support scrollkeeper use the --disable-scrollkeeper flag: E.g., ./configure --disable-scrollkeeper If you wish to build this package to use native libparted /dev/mapper dmraid support use the --enable-libparted-dmraid flag: E.g., ./configure --enable-libparted-dmraid If you wish to build this package with online resize support then the following is required: a) Linux kernel version 3.6 or higher. b) Libparted with online resize support. Either: i) Libparted version 3.2 or later which includes online resize support as standard. In this case GParted is automatically built with online resize support. ii) Online resize support back ported into an earlier version of libparted. This is only known to be included in Debian and derived distributions with parted version 2.3-14 and higher. In this case online resize support must be specifically enabled with the --enable-online-resize flag: E.g., ./configure --enable-online-resize Please note that more than one configure flag can be used: E.g., ./configure --disable-doc --enable-libparted-dmraid The INSTALL file contains further GNU installation instructions. c. Building using a Specific (lib)parted Version 1) Download the parted version you wish to use (e.g., 3.2) from: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/ 2) Build and install parted. Extract parted tarball, configure, make, and sudo make install. Note that by default this will install into /usr/local. 3) Set environment variables to inform the GParted build system to use libparted from /usr/local: export CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include export LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib export LD_RUN_PATH=/usr/local/lib export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig 4) Build gparted using steps listed above in "Building from Source". Note that when you run ./configure you should see the specific version of parted listed in the check for libparted >= 1.7.1. You will also see the libparted version listed when running gparted from the command line. DIRECTORIES ------------ compose - contains String::ucompose() function data - contains desktop icons doc - contains manual page documentation help - contains GParted Manual and international translations include - contains source header files m4 - contains macro files po - contains international language translations src - contains C++ source code DISTRIBUTION NOTES ------------------ GParted uses GNU libparted to detect and manipulate devices and partition tables. The blkid command is also required to detect those file systems which libparted doesn't detect. (The blkid command should be considered a mandatory requirement). GParted also queries and manipulates the file systems within those devices and partitions. When available, it uses each file system's specific commands. The following optional file system specific packages provide this support: btrfs-progs / btrfs-tools e2fsprogs f2fs-tools dosfstools mtools - required to read and write FAT16/32 volume labels and UUIDs hfsutils hfsprogs jfsutils nilfs-utils ntfs-3g / ntfsprogs reiser4progs reiserfsprogs / reiserfs-utils / reiserfs xfsprogs, xfsdump For dmraid support, the following packages are required: dmsetup - removes /dev/mapper entries dmraid - lists dmraid devices and creates /dev/mapper entries For GNU/Linux distribution dmraid support, the following are required: - kernel built with Device Mapping and Mirroring built. From menuconfig, it is under Device Drivers -> (RAID & LVM). - dmraid drive arrays activated on boot (e.g., dmraid -ay). For LVM2 Physical Volume support the following command is required: lvm - LVM2 administration tool And device-mapper support in the kernel. For attempt data rescue for lost partitions, the following package is required: gpart - guesses PC-type hard disk partitions Several more commands are optionally used by GParted if found on the system. These commands include: blkid - [mandatory requirement] used to detect file systems libparted doesn't, read UUIDs and volume labels hdparm - used to query disk device serial numbers vol_id - used to read volume labels udisks - used to prevent automounting of file systems devkit-disks - used to prevent automounting of file systems {filemanager} - used in attempt data rescue to display discovered file systems. (e.g., nautilus, pcmanfm) hal-lock - used to prevent automounting of file systems gksudo - used to acquire root privileges in .desktop file, but only if available when gparted source is configured. gksu - alternatively used to acquire root privileges in .desktop file if gksu not available, but only if available when gparted source is configured. kdesudo - alternatively used to acquire root privileges in .desktop file if gksudo and gksu not available, but only if available when gparted source is configured. xdg-su - alternatively used to acquire root privileges in .desktop file if gksudo, gksu, and kdesudo are not available, but only if available when gparted source is configured. udevinfo - used in dmraid to query udev name udevadm - used in dmraid to query udev name yelp - used to display help manual