Re: How do I run Parted?

[Andrew Clausen]

On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 01:12:32PM -0600, Robert Berger wrote:
> I used the ./configure, make, make install commands and believe that 
> everything was successful but no program menu items appeared and command 
> line commands were found to be unknown. Within the parted directory (as 
> a regular user and as root) I tried various commands and all response's 
> came back..."Command not found". What am I doing wrong? I have my entire 
> 20GB HD partition for Linux ext2 and would like to shrink that down to 
> 15-16GB for a second OS. Is there a file within the Parted directory 
> that could tell me whats going on....suggestions? Thanks in advance...

By default, parted gets installed in /usr/local/sbin/parted.  So, type
that... The vast majority of GNU/Linux programs work like this.
(XXX/sbin for things generally run as root, XXX/bin for things run by
normal users, where XXX is /usr/local by default)

Typing "parted" may or may not work, depending on the distribution,
how you logged in, etc.

You might prefer using the Parted bootdisk:

        ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/bootdisk

(I suspect you're wanting to resize your root partition, which you
can't do while you're using it, so use the bootdisk instead...)

Andrew