Re: ITP: GNU Parted
Timshel Knoll <timshel@pobox.com> wrote:
> GNU parted is a partition magic clone. It consists of the packages
> parted and libparted-dev. I cannot build shared libraries at this
> stage due to a bug in gcc, but if/when that is fixed I'll also do
> a libparted package.
>
> parted can be obtained from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted
> Author is Andrew Clausen <clausen@gnu.org>, parted's current
> version is 1.0pre7.
Is it any good? is it stable? have you used it on your drive?
>
> License is GPL (of course)
>
> debian/control:
>
> Source: parted
> Section: utils
> Priority: optional
> Maintainer: Timshel Knoll <timshel@pobox.com>
> Standards-Version: 3.0.1
>
> Package: parted
> Architecture: i386 alpha
> Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
> Description: A disk partition resizing program
> GNU Parted is a program that allows you to create, destroy,
> resize, move and copy hard disk partitions. This is useful
> for creating space for new operating systems, reorganising
> disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks.
>
> Package: libparted-dev
> Architecture: i386 alpha
> Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
> Description: The GNU Parted partitioning library, development files
> The GNU Parted library is a disk partitioning and partition
> resizing library. It contains an API which allows you to
> create, destroy, resize, move and copy hard disk partitions.
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