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From: Otavio Salvador
Subject: parted.8 patches
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 11:15:34 -0300
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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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