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[PATCH] doc: improve NEWS
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Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
[PATCH] doc: improve NEWS |
Date: |
Sat, 25 Feb 2012 11:18:13 +0100 |
FYI,
>From 187e7cba48094505f00532698dfb04ab40575231 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 11:16:54 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] doc: improve NEWS
* NEWS: Expand/adjust wording in two entries.
---
NEWS | 13 ++++++++-----
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 2793ce4..fc93e98 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -4,7 +4,9 @@ GNU parted NEWS -*- outline
-*-
** New features
- Increased limit for msdos partitions from 16 to 64
+ parted now supports up to 64 msdos partitions (was 16). The partition
+ table format imposes no limit (it's simply a linked list), so we may
+ raise it further, if needed.
parted has improved support for partitionable loopback devices
@@ -75,10 +77,11 @@ GNU parted NEWS -*-
outline -*-
anyhow, and some users have a misconfigured BIOS that claims to have a
floppy when they don't, and scanning gets hung up.
- parted: mkpart command has changed semantics with regard to specifying end
- of the partition. If the end is specified using MiB, GiB, etc. unit, parted
- subtracts one sector from the specified value. With this change, it is now
- possible to create partitions like 1MiB-2MiB, 2MiB-3MiB and so on.
+ parted: the mkpart command has changed semantics with regard to specifying
+ the end of the partition. If the end is specified using units of MiB, GiB,
+ etc., parted subtracts one sector from the specified value. With this
+ change, it is now possible to create partitions like 1MiB-2MiB, 2MiB-3MiB
+ and so on.
Device-mapper devices ( LVM, dmraid ) no longer insert a 'p' between the
base device name and the partition number unless the last character of
--
1.7.9.2.263.g9be8b7
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