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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.
-
- Parted currently supports DOS, Mac, PC98, BSD, GPT, MIPS and Sun disklabels /
- partition tables, as well as a 'loop' (raw disk) disklabel type which is
- useful for filesystems on RAID or LVM volumes.
-
- 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 | * | * | * | * | *
- hfs | * | | * | |
- jfs | * | | | |
- linux-swap | * | * | * | * | *
- ntfs | * | | | |
- reiserfs | * | *[5] | *[1,5]| *[5] | *[3,5]
- ufs | * | | | |
- xfs | * | | | |
-
- [1] Parted can't move the start of ext2 or ext3 partitions (yet).
- [2] The size of the partition you copy to must be greater than or equal to
- the size of the partition you copy from.
- [3] Limited checking is done when the filesystem is opened, this is the
- extent of ext2 checking done at the moment.
- [4] The size of the new partition, after resizing or copying, is restricted
- by the cluster size for fat (mainly affects FAT16). Parted can shrink
- cluster sizes, but cannot grow them on FAT16.
- [5] ReiserFS support is enabled if you install libreiserfs, currently in the
- libreiserfs0.3-0 package. Since libreiserfs0.3-0 is no more in sarge, the
- reiserfs create/resize/copy/check support is not built in in the debian package.
-
- -- Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org>, Fri Sep 9 10:19:39 2005
-