Re: Compiling parted

[Andrew Clausen]

Dan Knapp wrote:
> 
>   So, I had tried the precompiled versions of parted, but was unable to
> use them due to the cylinder-not-aligned problem (which Partition Magic
> happily created for me, with a minimum of warning, and which no tool I'm
> aware of for any OS can do anything about).  So when I read the announcement
> for 1.2.14-pre3, I thought I'd just build it and see whether it could print
> a partition table.  (I have rather a large amount of data on the drive in
> question, which I can't at present back up, so I wouldn't have actually
> changed anything with a -pre version... but it would have been some nice
> feedback to give to the list...)  Unfortunately, I discovered that I can't
> compile parted, apparantly due to libuuid not being usable.  I suppose this
> is off-topic, but can anybody help me get parted to build?

You also need the e2fsprogs-devel package.  This contains headers, and
static libraries.

Andrew Clausen