GPARTED
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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.
NEWS
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Information about changes to this release, and past releases can be
found in the file:
NEWS
INSTALL
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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:
(K)Ubuntu or Debian
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sudo apt-get install gparted
Fedora
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su -
yum install gparted
b. Building from Source
Building Gparted from source requires that several dependencies are
installed. These include:
g++
e2fsprogs
parted
gtkmm24
gettext
gnome-doc-utils - required if help documentation is to be built
On (K)Ubuntu, these dependencies may be obtained by running the
following command;
sudo apt-get install build-essential e2fsprogs uuid uuid-dev \
gnome-common libparted-dev libgtkmm-2.4-dev \
libdevmapper-dev gnome-doc-utils
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 rarian-compat
yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'
On openSUSE, these dependencies may be obtained by running the
following command;
sudo zypper install automake autoconf gcc-g++ make gnome-common \
libuuid-devel parted-devel gtkmm2-devel \
gnome-doc-utils-devel
Briefly, the shell commands `./configure; make; make install' should
configure, build, and install this package.
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
Please note that more than one configure flags can be used:
E.g., ./configure --disable-doc --enable-libparted-dmraid
The INSTALL file contains further GNU installation instructions.
COPYING
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The copying conditions can be found in the file:
COPYING
DIRECTORIES
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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
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Gparted uses GNU libparted to detect and manipulate devices and partition
tables. Several optional packages provide additional file system support.
Optional packages include:
btrfs-tools
e2fsprogs
dosfstools
mtools - required to read and write FAT16/32 volume labels and UUIDs
hfsutils
hfsprogs
jfsutils
nilfs-utils
ntfsprogs / ntfs-3g
reiser4progs
reiserfsprogs
xfsprogs, xfsdump
NOTE: * If the vol_id command is in the search PATH, it will be used
to read linux-swap, reiser4, hfs, and hfs+ file system
volume labels.
* If the blkid command is in the search path, it will be used
to read file system UUIDs and labels. It is also used for
ext4 file system detection.
blkid is part of the util-linux package and e2fsprogs
package before that.
For Linux software RAID support, the following package is required:
mdadm - tool to administer Linux MD arrays
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 -> <something> (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 - used to read volume labels and detect ext4 file systems
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
gksu - used to acquire root privileges in .desktop file,
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
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