Gparted is the Gnome Partition Editor, a Gtk 2 GUI for other command line tools that can create, reorganise or delete disk partitions.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.6 systemd platform.
Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gparted/gparted-0.19.1.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 9aff8cef2c46e5ca4adaab43588c9e64
Download size: 2.0 MB
Estimated disk space required: 77 MB (additional 3 MB, building the optional documentation)
Estimated build time: 0.9 SBU (additional 0.1 SBU, building the optional documentation)
GNOME Doc Utils and Rarian-0.8.1
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gparted
Install Gparted by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr \
--disable-doc \
--disable-static &&
make
This package does not come with a testsuite.
Now, as the root user:
make install
--disable-static: This
switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.
--disable-doc: This switch disables
building of the optional documentation. Remove it if you have
installed GNOME Doc Utils.
To manipulate file systems Gparted has a run time dependency on various file system tools (you only need to install the tools for file systems you actually use): e2fsprogs (installed as part of LFS), jfsutils-1.1.15, ntfs-3g-2014.2.15, reiserfsprogs-3.6.24, xfsprogs-3.2.1, btrfs-progs, dosfstools, mtools (required to read and write FAT16/32 volume labels and UUIDs), hfsutils, hfsprogs, nilfs-utils and reiser4progs.
Root privileges are required to run Gparted. If you wish to run the application from the menu, further packages and configuration are necessary. One solution is to use pkexec from Polkit-0.112. Another solution is to use ssh-askpass-6.6p1.
To optionally use ssh-askpass-6.6p1, run the following
commands as the root user:
cp -v /usr/share/applications/gparted.desktop \
/usr/share/applications/gparted.desktop.back &&
sed -i 's/Exec=/Exec=sudo -A /'
/usr/share/applications/gparted.desktop &&
To optionally use pkexec, you need polkit-gnome-0.105 or LXPolkit-0.1.0 or any Polkit authentication
agent provided by your desktop environment and Systemd (for
Logind). Run the following commands as the root user:
cp -v /usr/share/applications/gparted.desktop \
/usr/share/applications/gparted.desktop.back &&
sed -i 's:/usr/sbin/gparted:/usr/sbin/gparted_polkit:' \
/usr/share/applications/gparted.desktop &&
cat > /usr/sbin/gparted_polkit << "EOF" &&
#!/bin/sh
pkexec /usr/sbin/gparted $@
EOF
chmod -v 755 /usr/sbin/gparted_polkit
cat > /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.gnome.gparted.policy << "EOF"
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE policyconfig PUBLIC
"-//freedesktop//DTD PolicyKit Policy Configuration 1.0//EN"
"http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/PolicyKit/1/policyconfig.dtd">
<policyconfig>
<action id="org.freedesktop.policykit.pkexec.run-gparted">
<description>Run GParted</description>
<message>Authentication is required to run GParted</message>
<defaults>
<allow_any>no</allow_any>
<allow_inactive>no</allow_inactive>
<allow_active>auth_admin_keep</allow_active>
</defaults>
<annotate key="org.freedesktop.policykit.exec.path">/usr/sbin/gparted</annotate>
<annotate key="org.freedesktop.policykit.exec.allow_gui">true</annotate>
</action>
</policyconfig>
EOF
chmod -v 644 /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.gnome.gparted.policy
Last updated on 2014-08-25 09:58:52 -0700