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<appendix id="installation">
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<title>Installation</title>
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<sect1 id="obtaining">
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<title>How to obtain &partman;</title>
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<para>
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The main website for &partman; is <ulink url="http://www.partitionmanager.org">www.partitionmanager.org</ulink>. For
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the most current version, this is the place to go.
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</para>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="requirements">
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<title>Requirements</title>
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<para>
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In order to successfully use &partman;, you need &kde; 4.1 or later and &Qt; 4.4.0 or later. You do however not need to be logged into &kde; to use it: &partman; will run just fine under any other desktop environment as long as you have the basic &kde; libraries installed.
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</para>
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For a large part of its basic functionality &partman; relies on <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/index.shtml">libparted</ulink>. To generate UUIDs for copied file systems, it uses libuuid, which is part of <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/e2fsprogs">e2fsprogs</ulink>. Both of these are required to build or run &partman;.
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</para>
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&partman; makes extensive use of external tools to support a wide range of file systems. A specific tool is only required if you need the support for an operation it provides for a certain file system. For example, if you have no need to resize NTFS file systems you do not require to have <quote>ntfsresize</quote> installed. None of these tools are required to build &partman; from sources.
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</para>
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Here is a list of all external tools &partman; can make use of:
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</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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&debugfsreiser4;: Reads usage information and file system labels for reiser4 file systems. Part of the reiser4progs utility suite that can be downloaded from <ulink url="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/fs/reiser4/reiser4progs/"/>.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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&debugreiserfs;: Reads usage information and file system labels for reiserfs file systems. Part of the reiserfsprogs utility suite that can be downloaded from <ulink url="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/fs/reiserfs/"/>.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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&dumpe2fs;: Reads usage information for ext2/ext3/ext4 file systems. Part of the e2fsprogs utility suite that can be downloaded from <ulink url="http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/"/>.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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&e2label;: Reads and writes file system labels for ext2/ext3/ext4 file systems. Part of the e2fsprogs utility suite that can be downloaded from <ulink url="http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/"/>.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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&fsckmsdos;: Reads usage information and checks FAT16 and FAT32 file systems. Part of the dosfstools utility suite that can be downloaded from <ulink url="ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/Linux/LOCAL/dosfstools/"/>.
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</para>
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&hfsck;: Reads file system labels and checks HFS file systems. Part of the hfsutils utility suite that can be downloaded from <ulink url="http://www.mars.org/home/rob/proj/hfs/"/>.
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</para>
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&hpfsck;: Checks HFS+ file systems. Part of the hfsplusutils utility suite that can be downloaded from <ulink url="http://www.penguinppc.org/historical/hfsplus/"/>.
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</para>
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&jfsdebugfs;: Reads usage information for JFS file systems. Part of the jfsutils utility suite that can be downloaded from <ulink url="http://jfs.sourceforge.net/"/>.
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</para>
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&jfstune;: Reads and writes file system labels for JFS file systems. Part of the jfsutils utility suite that can be downloaded from <ulink url="http://jfs.sourceforge.net/"/>.
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</para>
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&ntfslabel;: Reads and writes file system labels for NTFS file systems. Part of the ntfsprogs utility suite that can be downloaded from <ulink url="http://www.linux-ntfs.org/"/>.
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</para>
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&ntfsresize;: Reads usage information, checks and resizes NTFS file systems. Part of the ntfsprogs utility suite that can be downloaded from <ulink url="http://www.linux-ntfs.org/"/>.
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</para>
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&swapoff;: Deactivates swap file systems. Part of the util-linux utility suite that can be downloaded from <ulink url="ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/"/>.
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&swapon;: Activates swap file systems. Part of the util-linux utility suite that can be downloaded from <ulink url="ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/"/>.
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</para>
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&volid;: Reads file system labels for linuxswap file systems. Part of udev that can be downloaded from <ulink url="http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/"/>.
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</para>
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&xfsdb;: Reads usage information and reads and writes file system labels for XFS file systems. Part of the xfsprogs utility suite that can be downloaded from <ulink url="ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/cmd_tars/"/>.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="compilation">
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<title>Compilation and Installation</title>
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&install.compile.documentation;
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="furtherreading">
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<title>Further Reading</title>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<ulink url="http://www.linfo.org/">The Linux Information Project</ulink> has a ton of information on many aspects of Linux. Their article on <ulink url="http://www.linfo.org/partition.html">partitions</ulink> is very informative. But also see their entries on <ulink url="http://www.linfo.org/partition_table.html">partition tables</ulink>, <ulink url="http://www.linfo.org/hdd.html">hard disk devices</ulink> and <ulink url="http://www.linfo.org/filesystem.html">file systems</ulink>.
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</para>
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<para>
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The <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition/index.html">Linux Partition HOWTO</ulink> is a basic overview of handling and partitioning disk devices on Linux and the native Linux file systems. It also covers swap partitions.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<para>
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<ulink url="http://www.wikipedia.org">Wikipedia</ulink> has an entry on <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_partitioning">disk partitioning</ulink>.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect1>
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</appendix>
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