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Curtis Gedak 232800d6cd Skip move action because linux-swap contains no data (#589555)
Closes bug #589555 - Moving a swap partition needlessly copies
                     all "data" on it
2010-10-19 13:43:42 -06:00
compose added *.swp corrected url 2006-03-16 15:09:52 +00:00
data Enabled GParted to use themed app icon (Tango theme). 2008-09-22 22:41:49 +00:00
doc Minor update to one line intro for gparted 2009-04-20 16:36:20 -06:00
help Update Czech help translation by Marek Cernocky 2010-07-11 18:13:55 +02:00
include Add virtual move method to FileSystem class 2010-10-19 13:35:53 -06:00
po [l10n] Updated Estonian translation 2010-10-17 20:24:14 +03:00
src Skip move action because linux-swap contains no data (#589555) 2010-10-19 13:43:42 -06:00
.cvsignore ignore all projectfiles 2004-09-29 13:15:57 +00:00
.gitignore Make .gitignore gparted* mask more specific (#587065) 2009-07-04 09:29:16 -06:00
AUTHORS Update AUTHORS file 2010-10-05 13:27:20 -06:00
autogen.sh Ensure that m4 directory exists 2009-04-18 14:47:32 -06:00
ChangeLog Add note that ChangeLogs are no longer used 2009-04-19 15:19:15 -06:00
configure.in Make btrfs support a normal part of gparted 2010-10-18 15:28:40 -06:00
COPYING Initial revision 2004-09-19 20:24:53 +00:00
COPYING-DOCS Added COPYING-DOCS and removed help/C/legal.xml file. The GFDL license should be translated only once per language, and not for each and every project that uses the license. See GParted bug #550047 2008-09-01 17:01:14 +00:00
gparted.desktop.in.in Correct desktop files for name and generic name entries (#600048) 2009-11-02 13:57:25 -07:00
gparted.doap Add some entries to gparted.doap file 2009-11-03 14:37:31 -07:00
gparted.in Re-word comment for gparted invocation using udisks and hal-lock 2010-07-21 10:37:58 -06:00
HACKING Update HACKING notes with git specific comments 2009-04-19 15:44:31 -06:00
Makefile.am Enhance Makefile generated ChangeLog entries 2010-03-25 10:54:00 -06:00
NEWS ========== gparted-0.6.4 ========== 2010-10-01 09:08:27 -06:00
README Remove dependency on kpartx for fake RAID support 2010-08-17 10:36:00 -06:00

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
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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 gnome-doc-utils

   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

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).


Several more commands are optionally used by GParted if found on the system.
These commands include:

   blkid         - used to read volume labels and detect ext4 file systems
   vol_id        - used to read volume labels
   udisks        - used to prevent automounting of file systems
   devkit-disks  - used to prevent automounting of file systems
   hal-lock      - used to prevent automounting of file systems
   gksu          - used to acquire root privileges in .desktop file,
                   but only if available when gparted source is configured.
   kpartx        - used in dmraid to create /dev/mapper entries such as
                     /dev/mapper/isw_idedecefg_Volume0p1
   udevinfo      - used in dmraid to query udev name
   udevadm       - used in dmraid to query udev name