On Sunday 09 March 2003 06:09 pm, Kurt Wall wrote: > Feigning erudition, edj wrote: > % On Sunday 09 March 2003 04:30 pm, Kurt Wall wrote: > % > Feigning erudition, edj wrote: > % > > % > I'm going to move away from SUSE, but before I do that I must > % > resize partitions. SUSE provides parted 1.6.3; it doesn't seem > to % > work with reiserfs. The latest is 1.6.5, which acc/to GNU's > site, % > will work with reiser if progsreiserfs is installed. Did > that. % > But when I tried to configure parted, it failed - couldn't > find % > libuuid. I have that, as e2fsprogs is installed. I went > through % > the documentation, configure --help, etc. and couldn't > find how to % > pass the location to configure. I'm probably missing > something very % > obvious here. Why would SUSE provide a parted > which won't read the % > default fs? Also, SUSE doesn't% seem to > provide an updated parted, % > and some of that YAST stuff depends > on it. I hope the newer % > parted, installed with checkinstall, > won't break anything. But % > who knows?? > % > > % > Any advice appreciated. Thanks. > % > > % > What is the output of ``locate libuuid''? Where is uuid.h on your > % > system? > % > > % > Kurt > % > % [Sun Mar 09] edj:~$ locate libuuid > % /lib/libuuid.so.1 > % /lib/libuuid.so.1.2 > % > % [Sun Mar 09] edj:~$ locate uuid.h > % /usr/lib/qt-3.1.1/include/quuid.h > % /usr/src/linux-2.4.19.SuSE/include/linux/xfs_support/uuid.h > > Okay, well, you don't really have libuuid installed, then, becuase > you need the headers for it. The Qt stuff is worthless in this > respect, and something that lives only in your kernel sources > shouldn't be used either. If you like, I have a statically-linked > parted binary tarball located on > ftp.kurtwerks.com:/pub/parted-bin-1.6.5.tar.gz that you're welcome to > use. Because it is statically-linked, parted will run even if the > proper libraries are not already installed. > > Kurt
Thanks. I didn't know to look for uuid.h This time I installed e2fsprogs with "make install-libs". uuid.h now lives happily in /usr/include/uuid/ and parted doesn't choke on a reiser system. Still, SUSE should have installed a parted and other needed stuff which would read a fs it uses by default. Thanks again. -- Ed Jabbour _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
