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- GNU Parted for Debian
- ----------------------
-
- The nature of this software means that any bugs could cause massive data loss.
- While there are no known bugs at the moment, they could exist, so please back
- up all important files before running it, and do so at your own risk.
-
- General:
- * Actively maintained
- * Support for CHS and LBA addressing modes
- * Support for logical sector sizes not equal to 512
- * Support for device's alignment requirements (e.g. physical sector sizes that
- are a multiple of the logical sector size)
- * Uses SI units (byte multiples of 1000), supporting arbitrary specification
- of disk locations in sectors, bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes,
- cylinders and CHS notation
- * Knows about, detects and works around quirks of other partitioning tools and
- operating system implementations
-
- Operating system support:
- * GNU/Linux
- * GNU/Hurd
- * BeOS
- * FreeBSD
-
- Parted currently supports:
- * Intel EFI/GPT parition tables
- * MS-DOS partition tables
- * Raw access (useful for RAID/LVM)
- * MIPS/DVH partition tables
- * Amiga partition tables
- * PC98 partition tabled
- * Sun disk labels
- * BSD disk labels (Linux-style; currently broken from a BSD view)
- * Macintosh parition maps
-
- Filesystems currently supported:
- [from the user documentation]
-
- Filesystem | Supported Operations
- |detect |create |resize | copy | check
- ----------------|-------|-------|-------|-------|--------
- ext2 | * | * | *[1] | *[2] | *[3]
- ext3 | * | | *[1] | *[2] | *[3]
- fat16 | * | * | *[4] | *[4] | *
- fat32 | * | * | * | * | *
- linux-swap | * | * | * | * | *
- hfs/hfs+ | * | | *[1,5]| |
- jfs | * | | | |
- ntfs | * | | | |
- reiserfs | * | *[6] | *[1,6]| *[6] | *[3,6]
- ufs | * | | | |
- xfs | * | | | |
-
- [1] The start of the partition must stay fixed.
- [2] The partition you copy to must be bigger or exactly the same size as the
- partition you copy from.
- [3] Limited checking is done when the file system is opened. This is the only
- checking at the moment. All commands (including resize) will gracefully
- fail, leaving the file system intact, if there are any errors.
- [4] You can always shrink your partition. If you can't use FAT32 for some
- reason, you may not be able to grow your partition due to restrictions in
- cluster size.
- [5] Parted can only shrink HFS and HFS+ filesystems.
- [6] ReiserFS support is enabled if you install libreiserfs.
-
- -- Xavier Oswald <x.oswald@free.fr> Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:31:15 +0200
-