GPARTED ------- GParted stands for Gnome Partition Editor. It uses libparted to detect and manipulate devices and partition tables while several (optional) file system tools provide support for file systems not included in libparted. These optional packages will be detected at runtime and don't require a rebuild of GParted. GParted is written in C++ and uses gtkmm as Graphical Toolkit. The general approach is to keep the GUI as simple as possible. That's why we try to conform to the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines. Visit http://gparted.sourceforge.net for more information INSTALL NOTES ------------- Compiling GParted requires that several dependencies are installed. Following are instructions on how to install these dependencies (which may install other dependencies) on two different GNU/Linux distributions: (k)ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon --------------------------- sudo apt-get install build-essential e2fsprogs uuid uuid-dev \ gnome-common libparted-dev libgtkmm-2.4-dev Fedora 8 -------- su - yum groupinstall "Development Tools" yum install perl-XML-DOM.noarch e2fsprogs-devel parted-devel \ gnome-common gtkmm24-devel Compiling and installing GParted is performed using the standard steps of: ./configure make make install For more information on installation instructions, refer to the file named INSTALL. DISTRIBUTION NOTES ------------------ GParted uses GNU libparted to detect and manipulate devices and partition tables. Several optional packages provide additional file system support. Optional packages that should be listed include: e2fsprogs dosfstools mtools hfsutils jfsutils ntfsprogs reiser4progs reiserfsprogs xfsprogs If the vol_id command is in the search PATH, it will be used to read linux-swap volume labels. Note to packagers: The above optional packages are not mandatory for gparted operation, and should probably listed as 'suggests' not 'depends on'.