On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Yasha Karant wrote:
> ...
> Is it safe to do the merry chase down the dependency trail to port a later 
> parted to SL 6 or will some of these cause SL 6 to fail/become unstable? 
> Does anyone have a SL 6 port of either parted or gparted that is more recent 
> than the stock SL 6 versions?
>
     You asked about SL6, but my experience with SL5 may be relevant.  The 
stock SL5 parted wouldn't make a label on a 3TB WD USB drive (4096 byte 
sectors), so I compiled what was then the latest version, parted-2.4, from 
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/.  There were no absent dependencies, 
installation put the result into /usr/local/sbin, leaving the stock 
version alone, and the compiled version was adequate.  They're up to 
parted-3.0 now.

Steven Yellin