I've seen a number of people recently who need to resize their n900's eMMC. This is typically a long and strenuous process involving removing all data and messing with partition tables.

If we had Parted from Debian on the n900, it would solve a lot of problems: parted seems to be able to automatically resize partitions on-the-fly. Put together with a shell-script or two, and resizing could be as easy as "./resize-optfs.sh 4096". -Much- easier than current methods.

I've looked at Parted on Debian, and Lenny's version looks like it would almost work - It requires libc6 v2.7-1(we have 2.5-1), libgcc1 V1:4.3(we have V1.4.2-1), and libparted(which has the same dependancies).
I'm thinking a simple recompile and uploads to extras-devel is in order; I'm just not sure how to do it.

If someone else wants to do this, I'd be greatfull - I'd also be happy if someone was willing to show me how to do it myself.

Thanks,

-Rob