Re: Features summary

[Andrew Clausen]

Michal Svec wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> I wrote a small feature summary of the Parted, can you please look at it
> and possibly correct mistakes or fill up missing things?

Excellent :-)

> GNU Parted Features Summary
> ===========================
> + GPL License
> + create/destroy any fs

ext2, fat, linux-swap

> + cmdline interface
> + i386 platform
> + i18n
> - full fscking not implemented
> 
> + safety checks
> + designed to minimize the chance of data loss
> + well supported (developers on the mailing-list)
> + Alpha platform supported
i386 supported (perhaps best to have this next "i386 platform"...

> + should be well tested
> + copy/move/resize ext2, fat and swap
> + good user documentation (DriveSpace, ...)
> 
> - limited ext2 support
> - cannot change the cluster size of fat

Incorrect.  It can't grow the cluster size, but it can shrink it.  I
should be clearer in the docs, shouldn't I...!

> In development:
> + limited RAID/LVM support
> + alpha, ppc and pc98 platforms support

alpha is already supported (although untested for a while!)

> + FAT cluster changes (?)

Already complete in the current stable version (1.2.x).  I am not
attempting to add support for growing the cluster size, at this stage.

 + can detect (but not do anything else with): NTFS, HFS, reiserfs

Andrew Clausen