parted failure on SUSE 8.1

[edj]

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.

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Ed Jabbour