Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version 11.2

Chapter 5. File Systems and Disk Management

parted-3.5

Introduction to parted

The Parted package is a disk partitioning and partition resizing tool.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-11.2 platform.

Package Information

Parted Dependencies

Recommended

LVM2-2.03.16 (device-mapper, required if building udisks)

Optional

dosfstools-4.2, Pth-2.0.7, texlive-20220321 (or install-tl-unx), and Digest::CRC (for tests)

User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/parted

Optional Kernel Configuration for Tests

About 20 % more tests are run if the following kernel module is built: 

Device Drivers --->
  SCSI device support --->
    [*]  SCSI low-level drivers --->                 [CONFIG_SCSI_LOW_LEVEL]
      <M> SCSI debugging host and device simulator   [CONFIG_SCSI_DEBUG]

Installation of parted

Install Parted by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make &&

make -C doc html                                       &&
makeinfo --html      -o doc/html       doc/parted.texi &&
makeinfo --plaintext -o doc/parted.txt doc/parted.texi

If you have texlive-20220321 installed and wish to create PDF and Postscript documentation issue the following commands: 

texi2pdf             -o doc/parted.pdf doc/parted.texi &&
texi2dvi             -o doc/parted.dvi doc/parted.texi &&
dvips                -o doc/parted.ps  doc/parted.dvi

To test the results, issue, as the root user: 

make check
[Note]

Note

Many tests are skipped if not run as the root user.

Now, as the root user: 

make install &&
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/parted-3.5/html &&
install -v -m644    doc/html/* \
                    /usr/share/doc/parted-3.5/html &&
install -v -m644    doc/{FAT,API,parted.{txt,html}} \
                    /usr/share/doc/parted-3.5

Install the optional PDF and Postscript documentation by issuing the following command as the root user: 

install -v -m644 doc/FAT doc/API doc/parted.{pdf,ps,dvi} \
                    /usr/share/doc/parted-3.5

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--disable-device-mapper: This option disables device mapper support. Add this parameter if you have not installed LVM2.

Contents

Installed Programs: parted and partprobe
Installed Libraries: libparted.so and libparted-fs-resize.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/parted and /usr/share/doc/parted-3.5

Short Descriptions

parted

is a partition manipulation program

partprobe

informs the OS of partition table changes

libparted.so

contains the Parted API functions