| GNU Parted |
| ---------- |
| |
| GNU Parted is a program for creating, destroying, resizing, checking and |
| copying partitions, and the filesystems on them. This is useful for creating |
| space for new operating systems, reorganising disk usage, copying data between |
| hard disks, and disk imaging. |
| |
| * documentation is in the doc/ directory. The User's documentation is in |
| texinfo format, and is built into a format viewable by info/pinfo when |
| you run make. i.e. |
| |
| $ ./configure |
| $ cd doc |
| $ make |
| $ info -f parted.info |
| |
| Yes, it sucks that you need to run ./configure before you can read the manual. |
| If you have problems with it, doc/parted.texi should be fairly easy to read, |
| just a bit less userfriendly. |
| If you prefer html format, you can run: |
| |
| $ cd doc |
| $ makeinfo --html parted.texi |
| |
| * an online tutorial is available at http://www.luv.asn.au/overheads/parted |
| * the GNU Parted home page is http://www.gnu.org/software/parted |
| * the GNU Parted FAQ can be found at |
| http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/faq.html |
| * send bug reports, requests for help, feature requests, comments, etc. to |
| bug-parted@gnu.org. The authors can be contacted directly (see the AUTHORS |
| file). |
| |
| |
| NOTE TO DISTRIBUTIONS |
| --------------------- |
| |
| (1) When compiling Parted for distribution for general use, we recommend using |
| the default configuration: |
| |
| CFLAGS=-Os ./configure |
| |
| This includes --enable-debug (by default), which contains many assertions. |
| Obviously, these "waste" space, but in the past, they have caught potentially |
| dangerous bugs before they would have done damage, so we think it's worth |
| it. Also, it means we get more bug reports ;) |
| |
| |
| (2) When doing dependencies, remember that libreiserfs is a *soft* dependency, |
| so I guess that means Debian-look-alikes should do a "suggests", but |
| not a "requires". |
| |
| |
| (3) When space is important, we suggest --without-readline, --disable-shared, |
| and possibly --disable-nls and --disable-dynamic-loading. |
| |
| If Parted is only going to be used for probing / discovery (and not |
| "editing"), there is a --enable-discovery-only and --disable-fs (when you're |
| only interested in partition tables). Since it's readonly, --enable-debug |
| gains you nothing wrt safety, so use --disable-debug ;) The "discover" |
| program is about 35k (gzipped) when compiled this way (not counting libc |
| and libuuid). |
| |
