Enhancing Debian Bookworm backports GNU Parted utilities with reiser4 detection/probe hack.

Although currently there is no reiser4 patch for the 6.x.y Linux kernel, I was prodded to use Debian Bookworm GCC12 compiler to generate a 5.17.12-3 reiser4 -enhanced kernel and, of course, downgrade the default kernel for Debian Bookworm backports, accordingly.

I also needed GNU Parted to recognize my former and ensuing reiser4 file system partitions in this aggregate ~ three(3) terabytes mixed dual hard disk storage medium.

The default tlilxochitl, i.e., vanilla, GNU Parted detection and/or probing utilities are stunted by design -- a likely reflection of its maintainer at Red Hat -- since they fail miserably at reiser4 file system detection -- as seen in the ensuing snapshot:

Evidently, I needed to enhance GNU Parted with reiser4 and, thus, generated the following DEBs:

libparted2_3.5-3.1_amd64.deb
libparted2_3.5-3.1_amd64.deb.SHA256SUM
parted_3.5-3.1_amd64.deb
parted_3.5-3.1_amd64.deb.SHA256SUM
libparted-dev_3.5-3.1_amd64.deb
libparted-dev_3.5-3.1_amd64.deb.SHA256SUM
libparted-fs-resize0_3.5-3.1_amd64.deb
libparted-fs-resize0_3.5-3.1_amd64.deb.SHA256SUM
libparted-i18n_3.5-3.1_all.deb
libparted-i18n_3.5-3.1_all.deb.SHA256SUM
parted-doc_3.5-3.1_all.deb
parted-doc_3.5-3.1_all.deb.SHA256SUM

Subsequently, acquiring root privilege -- with sudo or as root -- I installed the bare minimum DEB packages to enhance the Bookworm user environment experience:

i.e., specifically, at the shell prompt:

Shell

The magic was instantaneous as reiser4 -enhanced GNU Parted detected the existing reiser4 file systems in my system:

For a non-Debian-packaged GNU Parted enahanced with reiser4 (SFRN) 4.0.2, the GitHub testing repository https://github.com/Metztli/gnu-parted-reiser4 can be cloned -- and built (but sudo or root privilege is needed for the last incantation) -- as:

Shell

(Please type ./configure --help after ./bootstrap successfully completes -- as you may need to pass your preferred arguments to that ./configure directive).

Additionally, please note that you will need Autoconf-2.71 or greater as your ./bootstrap invocation will end in error if that requirement is not met. For instance, I was working in a Metztli Reiser4 / Debian Bullseye backports for AMD64 instance and I had to generate relevant Autoconf as the existing one is too old:

autoconf_2.71-4_all.deb
autoconf_2.71-4_all.deb.SHA256SUM

autoconf-doc_2.71-4_all.deb
autoconf-doc_2.71-4_all.deb.SHA256SUM


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