GPARTED
-------
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.sourceforge.net for more information.
NEWS
----
Information about changes to this release, and past releases can be
found in the file:
NEWS
INSTALL
-------
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
---------
sudo apt-get install gparted
Fedora
------
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
On Fedora, you will need to run (as root);
yum install gtkmm24-devel parted-devel e2fsprogs-devel gettext \
perl(XML::Parser) desktop-file-utils
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
The INSTALL file contains further GNU installation instructions.
COPYING
-------
The copying conditions can be found in the file:
COPYING
DIRECTORIES
------------
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
------------------
Gparted uses GNU libparted to detect and manipulate devices and partition
tables. Several optional packages provide additional file system support.
Optional packages include:
e2fsprogs
dosfstools
mtools - required to read and write FAT16/32 volume labels
hfsutils
hfsprogs
jfsutils
ntfsprogs
reiser4progs
reiserfsprogs
xfsprogs
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 detection.
blkid is part of the e2fsprogs package.
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
kpartx - creates /dev/mapper entries such as
/dev/mapper/isw_idedecefg_Volume0p1
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).