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[Announce]GNU Parted..Ported

gnu-parted: is "a partition manipulation program"

Description:
"parted is a disk partitioning and partition resizing program. It allows you to create, destroy, resize, move and copy ext2, ext3, linux-swap, FAT and FAT32 partitions. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks."

Code:

SYNOPSIS

parted [options] [device [command [options...]...]]



  align-check TYPE N                        check partition N for TYPE(min|opt)

        alignment

  check NUMBER                             do a simple check on the file system

  cp [FROM-DEVICE] FROM-NUMBER TO-NUMBER   copy file system to another partition

  help [COMMAND]                           print general help, or help on

        COMMAND

  mklabel,mktable LABEL-TYPE               create a new disklabel (partition

        table)

  mkfs NUMBER FS-TYPE                      make a FS-TYPE file system on

        partition NUMBER

  mkpart PART-TYPE [FS-TYPE] START END     make a partition

  mkpartfs PART-TYPE FS-TYPE START END     make a partition with a file system

  move NUMBER START END                    move partition NUMBER

  name NUMBER NAME                         name partition NUMBER as NAME

  print [devices|free|list,all|NUMBER]     display the partition table,

        available devices, free space, all found partitions, or a particular

        partition

  quit                                     exit program

  rescue START END                         rescue a lost partition near START

        and END

  resize NUMBER START END                  resize partition NUMBER and its file

        system

  rm NUMBER                                delete partition NUMBER

  select DEVICE                            choose the device to edit

  set NUMBER FLAG STATE                    change the FLAG on partition NUMBER

  toggle [NUMBER [FLAG]]                   toggle the state of FLAG on partition

        NUMBER

  unit UNIT                                set the default unit to UNIT

  version                                  display the version number and

Parted User's Manual = more in-depth than above

this is a ruff port that seems to work well (needs testing thou. not only that but feedback too)
~~i just requested a project page in garage so give it 72hr to be up(will post link in this post)~~

Garage Page:
http://gnu-parted.garage.maemo.org/

gnu-parted is now avilable in Fremantle Extras-devel free armel

Note: if you installed the test package please remove it.
it does not have "partprobe"(is it needed:confused: but its apart of gnu parted when install on desktop)

Enjoy

[Announce]GNU Parted..Optified

not sure if its right so i'm not going to upload to repositories (yet).
i put parted's binaries in "/opt/parted" and "ln -s" them to "/sbin" so we save ~1.5 MB off rootfs (but let me know if its ok then i upload to repositories).

Note: please uninstall previous version.

optified version here