4 GNU Parted is a program for creating, destroying, resizing, checking and
5 copying partitions, and the filesystems on them. This is useful for creating
6 space for new operating systems, reorganising disk usage, copying data between
7 hard disks, and disk imaging.
9 * documentation is in the doc/ directory. The User's documentation is in
10 texinfo format, and is built into a format viewable by info/pinfo when
18 Yes, it sucks that you need to run ./configure before you can read the manual.
19 If you have problems with it, doc/parted.texi should be fairly easy to read,
20 just a bit less userfriendly.
21 If you prefer html format, you can run:
24 $ makeinfo --html parted.texi
26 * an online tutorial is available at http://www.luv.asn.au/overheads/parted
27 * the GNU Parted home page is http://www.gnu.org/software/parted
28 * the GNU Parted FAQ can be found at
29 http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/faq.html
30 * send bug reports, requests for help, feature requests, comments, etc. to
31 bug-parted@gnu.org. The authors can be contacted directly (see the AUTHORS
38 (1) When compiling Parted for distribution for general use, we recommend using
39 the default configuration:
41 CFLAGS=-Os ./configure
43 This includes --enable-debug (by default), which contains many assertions.
44 Obviously, these "waste" space, but in the past, they have caught potentially
45 dangerous bugs before they would have done damage, so we think it's worth
46 it. Also, it means we get more bug reports ;)
49 (2) When doing dependencies, remember that libreiserfs is a *soft* dependency,
50 so I guess that means Debian-look-alikes should do a "suggests", but
54 (3) When space is important, we suggest --without-readline, --disable-shared,
55 and possibly --disable-nls and --disable-dynamic-loading.
57 If Parted is only going to be used for probing / discovery (and not
58 "editing"), there is a --enable-discovery-only and --disable-fs (when you're
59 only interested in partition tables). Since it's readonly, --enable-debug
60 gains you nothing wrt safety, so use --disable-debug ;) The "discover"
61 program is about 35k (gzipped) when compiled this way (not counting libc