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With this patch the commands required to support motherboard BIOS RAID, also known as fake RAID, are dmraid and dmsetup. If the kpartx command is available, it will be used to maintain device entries that follow the naming convention used by kpartx. Closes Ubuntu launchpad bug 554582 - GParted does not list dmraid devices https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gparted/+bug/554582
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GPARTED
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Gparted is the Gnome Partition Editor for creating, reorganizing, and
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deleting disk partitions.
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A hard disk is usually subdivided into one or more partitions. These
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partitions are normally not re-sizable (making one smaller and the
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adjacent one larger.) Gparted makes it possible for you to take a
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hard disk and change the partition organization, while preserving the
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partition contents.
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More specifically, Gparted enables you to create, destroy, resize,
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move, check, label, and copy partitions, and the file systems
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contained within. This is useful for creating space for new operating
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systems, reorganizing disk usage, and mirroring one partition with
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another (disk imaging).
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Gparted can also be used with storage devices other than hard disks,
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such as USB flash drives, and memory cards.
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Visit http://gparted.sourceforge.net for more information.
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NEWS
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Information about changes to this release, and past releases can be
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found in the file:
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NEWS
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INSTALL
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a. Pre-built Binary
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Many GNU/Linux distributions already provide a pre-built binary
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package for GParted. Instructions on how to install GParted on
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some distributions is given below:
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(K)Ubuntu
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sudo apt-get install gparted
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Fedora
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su -
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yum install gparted
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b. Building from Source
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Building Gparted from source requires that several dependencies are
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installed. These include:
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g++
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e2fsprogs
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parted
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gtkmm24
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gettext
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gnome-doc-utils - required if help documentation is to be built
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On (K)Ubuntu, these dependencies may be obtained by running the
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following command;
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sudo apt-get install build-essential e2fsprogs uuid uuid-dev \
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gnome-common libparted-dev libgtkmm-2.4-dev \
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libdevmapper-dev gnome-doc-utils
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On Fedora, you will need to run (as root);
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yum install gtkmm24-devel parted-devel e2fsprogs-devel gettext \
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perl(XML::Parser) desktop-file-utils
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Briefly, the shell commands `./configure; make; make install' should
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configure, build, and install this package. If you wish to build
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this package without the help documentation use the --disable-doc
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flag:
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E.g., ./configure --disable-doc
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The INSTALL file contains further GNU installation instructions.
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COPYING
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The copying conditions can be found in the file:
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COPYING
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DIRECTORIES
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compose - contains String::ucompose() function
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data - contains desktop icons
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doc - contains manual page documentation
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help - contains GParted Manual and international translations
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include - contains source header files
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m4 - contains macro files
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po - contains international language translations
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src - contains C++ source code
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DISTRIBUTION NOTES
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Gparted uses GNU libparted to detect and manipulate devices and partition
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tables. Several optional packages provide additional file system support.
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Optional packages include:
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e2fsprogs
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dosfstools
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mtools - required to read and write FAT16/32 volume labels
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hfsutils
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hfsprogs
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jfsutils
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ntfsprogs
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reiser4progs
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reiserfsprogs
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xfsprogs
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NOTE: * If the vol_id command is in the search PATH, it will be used
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to read linux-swap, reiser4, hfs, and hfs+ file system
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volume labels.
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* If the blkid command is in the search path, it will be used
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to read file system UUIDs and labels. It is also used for
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ext4 file detection.
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blkid is part of the e2fsprogs package.
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For Linux software RAID support, the following package is required:
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mdadm - tool to administer Linux MD arrays
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For dmraid support, the following packages are required:
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dmsetup - removes /dev/mapper entries
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dmraid - lists dmraid devices and creates /dev/mapper entries
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For GNU/Linux distribution dmraid support, the following are required:
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- kernel built with Device Mapping and Mirroring built. From menuconfig,
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it is under Device Drivers -> <something> (RAID & LVM).
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- dmraid drive arrays activated on boot (e.g., dmraid -ay).
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Several more commands are optionally used by GParted if found on the system.
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These commands include:
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blkid - used to read volume labels and detect ext4 file systems
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vol_id - used to read volume labels
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udisks - used to prevent automounting of file systems
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devkit-disks - used to prevent automounting of file systems
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hal-lock - used to prevent automounting of file systems
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gksu - used to acquire root privileges in .desktop file,
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but only if available when gparted source is configured.
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kpartx - used in dmraid to create /dev/mapper entries such as
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/dev/mapper/isw_idedecefg_Volume0p1
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udevinfo - used in dmraid to query udev name
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udevadm - used in dmraid to query udev name
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