Information about the package, parted, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The parted package is designed for, The GNU disk partition manipulation program.
Package Name:
parted
Summary:
The GNU disk partition manipulation program
Description:
The GNU Parted program allows you to create, destroy, resize, move, and copy hard disk partitions. Parted can be used for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.1
Release:
29.el6
Size:
2.2 M
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
base
Licence:
GPLv3+
Control the parted package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install parted
This command will install parted on the server.
yum remove parted
This command will un-install parted on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove parted, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove parted
This command will un-install parted on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove parted when using the -y flag.
yum update parted
This command will update parted to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove parted, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update parted
This command will update parted to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove parted when using the -y flag.
yum info parted
This command will show you core information about the parted package.
yum deplist parted
This command will show you the dependencies for parted. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update parted
This command will check if there is an update waiting on parted. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.