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[PATCH] doc: improve NEWS


From: 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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