Gparted is the Gnome Partition Editor, a Gtk 3 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 11.3 platform.
Download (HTTP): https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gparted/gparted-1.5.0.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 9adbd4b1cbcb7a7c76dcc0e9ffed9a7c
Download size: 5.2 MB
Estimated disk space required: 75 MB (add 75 MB for tests)
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU (using parallelism=4; add 0.2 SBU for tests)
btrfs-progs-6.1.3 (if using a btrfs filesystem), exfatprogs, and udftools
User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gparted
Install Gparted by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr \
--disable-doc \
--disable-static &&
make
To run the tests, issue: make check.
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.
--enable-xhost-root: This switch
provides an interim workaround to allow GParted to run under
Wayland by using xhost to grant and revoke root access to the X11
display.
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): Hdparm-9.65 (required for optionally displaying serial number device information), btrfs-progs-6.1.3, dosfstools-4.2, e2fsprogs (installed as part of LFS), jfsutils-1.1.15, reiserfsprogs-3.6.27, xfsprogs-6.1.1, 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 applications and configurations are necessary. Examples of applications that may be used: gksu, kdesudo, or xdg-su. Another simple solution is ssh-askpass-9.2p1.
To optionally use ssh-askpass-9.2p1 if it is installed in
your system, 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
Now, clicking on the menu item for Gparted, a dialog appears on the screen, asking for the administrator password.