Chapter 1: Introduction 1
1 Introduction
1.1 Overview of GNU Parted
GNU Parted is a program for creating, destroying, resizing, checking and copying
partitions, and the file systems on them.
This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, for reorganizing disk usage,
for copying data between hard disks and for “disk imaging” — replicating an installation
on another computer.
This documentation is written with the assumption that the reader has some under-
standing of partitioning and file systems. If you want to learn more about these, the
upcoming GNU Storage Guide is recommended reading.
GNU Parted was designed to minimize the chance of data loss. For example, it was
designed to avoid data loss during interruptions (like power failure) and performs many
safety checks. However, there could be bugs in GNU Parted, so you should back up your
important files before running Parted. Also note that reiserfs support relies on libreiserfs,
which does not fulfil the aforementioned requirement. The same holds for any external tools
like ntfsresize.
The GNU Parted homepage is http://www.gnu.org/software/parted. The library
and frontend themselves can be downloaded from
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted. You
can also find a listing of mailing lists, notes for contributing and more useful information
on the web site.
Please send bug reports to bug-parted@gnu.org. When sending bug reports, please
include the version of GNU Parted. Please include the output from these commands (for
disk ‘/dev/hda’):
# parted /dev/hda print unit s print unit chs print
Feel free to ask for help on this list — just check that your question isn’t answered
here first. If you don’t understand the documentation, please tell us, so we can explain it
better. General philosophy is: if you need to ask for help, then something nee ds to be fixed
so you (and others) don’t need to ask for help.
Also, we’d love to hear your ideas :-)
1.2 Software Required for the use of Parted
If you’re installing or compiling Parted yourself, you’ll need to have some other pro-
grams installed. If you are compiling Parted, you will need both the normal and devel
packages of these programs installed:
• libuuid, part of the e2fsprogs package. If you don’t have this, you can get it from:
http://web.mit.edu/tytso/www/linux/e2fsprogs.html
If you want to compile Parted and e2fsprogs, note that you will need to make install
and make install-libs e2fsprogs.
• GNU Readline (optional), available from
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline
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hjl11182012-02-24编译通过了，不错，谢谢
