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parted.8 patches
From: |
Otavio Salvador |
Subject: |
parted.8 patches |
Date: |
Fri, 09 Sep 2005 11:15:34 -0300 |
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Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
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Hello,
A user provided a patch for Debian package and I think it's very
suitable for upstream merge. Please do a look and comment:
diff -urNad --exclude=CVS --exclude=.svn ./doc/parted.8
/tmp/dpep-work.OLWW4L/parted-1.6.24/doc/parted.8
--- ./doc/parted.8 2005-03-04 23:03:00.000000000 -0300
+++ /tmp/dpep-work.OLWW4L/parted-1.6.24/doc/parted.8 2005-09-09
10:52:05.105098112 -0300
@@ -28,8 +28,9 @@
.PP
.B parted
is a disk partitioning and partition resizing program. It allows you to
-create, destroy, resize, move and copy ext2, ext3, linux-swap, FAT and FAT32
-partitions. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems,
+create, destroy, resize, move and copy ext2, ext3, linux-swap, FAT, FAT32, and
reiserfs
+partitions. It can create, resize and move Macintosh HFS partitions, as well
as detect jfs,
+ntfs, ufs, and xfs partitions. It is useful for creating space for new
operating systems,
reorganising disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
@@ -67,7 +68,7 @@
.TP
.B mkfs \fIpartition\fP \fIfs-type\fP
make a filesystem \fIfs-type\fP on \fIpartition\fP. \fIfs-type\fP can be one
-of "FAT", "ext2" or "linux-swap".
+of "fat16", "fat32", "ext2", "linux-swap" or "reiserfs".
.TP
.B mklabel \fIlabel-type\fP
Creates a new disklabel (partition table) of \fIlabel-type\fP.
@@ -77,6 +78,8 @@
.B mkpart \fIpart-type\fP \fI[fs-type]\fP \fIstart\fP \fIend\fP
make a \fIpart-type\fP partition with filesystem \fIfs-type\fP (if specified),
beginning at \fIstart\fP and ending at \fIend\fP (in megabytes).
+\fIfs-type\fP can be one of
+"fat16", "fat32", "ext2", "HFS", "linux-swap", "NTFS", "reiserfs" or "ufs".
\fIpart-type\fP should be one of "primary", "logical" or "extended"
.TP
.B mkpartfs \fIpart-type\fP \fIfs-type\fP \fIstart\fP \fIend\fP
@@ -120,9 +123,11 @@
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR fdisk (8),
.BR mkfs (8),
-The \fIparted\fP program is documented fully in the
+The \fIparted\fP program is fully documented in the
+.BR info(1)
+format
.IR "GNU partitioning software"
-manual available via the Info system.
+manual.
.SH AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Timshel Knoll <address@hidden>,
for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
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- parted.8 patches,
Otavio Salvador <=