parted failure on SUSE 8.1

[edj]

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

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Ed Jabbour