[parted-devel] parted for OSX

[Jim Meyering]

Anthony Generette wrote:
> I recently came across the following discussion:
>
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.parted.devel/60

That was a long time ago.

> And wondered if the port had ever been completed.

I don't know.

> I'm trying to get a disk imaging utility called Clonezilla to work on my Macs.   I have a firewire/USB 1TB external drive that I've partitioned so that it has a 1GB FAT32 partition and two Mac "journaled"  partitions. I've following the instructions listed at
>
> http://www.clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/livehd.php
>
> But the entire process fails for me when I try to run makeboot.sh:  I get something like "parted was not found on this GNU/Linux system".  I understand that OSX is a FreeBSD variant, but I have not been able to get the necessary software in place  to get the script to run to completion.

OSX portability is not on my radar now,
but if you can find someone to do the work
and submit a patch, we'd be happy to consider it.