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+GNU Parted
+----------
+
+GNU Parted is a program for manipulating partition tables.
+
+WARNING: USING PARTED TO PERFORM FILE SYSTEM OPERATIONS IS NO LONGER SUPPORTED
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Parted (post-2.4) no longer has the ability to create and modify file systems.
+Use file-system-specific tools to create and operate on file systems.
+For example, use the e2fsprogs programs to operate on ext2, ext3 and ext4
+file systems.  Use programs from the reiserfsprogs package if you want to
+manipulate reiserfs file systems.  Although Parted lets you do some of the
+same things, the file-system-related code in parted is not as robust as the
+code in more specialized, FS-specific packages.
+
+Most FS-related functionality was removed after Parted 2.4.
+Thus, the following commands are no longer supported:
+mkpartfs, mkfs, cp, move, check, resize.
+
+
+See the file NEWS for a list of major changes in the current release.
+
+
+ * documentation is in the doc/ directory.  The User's documentation is in
+texinfo format, and is built into a format viewable by info/pinfo when
+you run make.  To view the distributed texinfo documentation, run this:
+
+	$ info -f parted.info
+
+Or view it on-line at:
+
+  http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/parted.html
+
+ * the GNU Parted home page is http://www.gnu.org/software/parted
+ * the GNU Parted FAQ can be found at
+   http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/faq.html
+ * send bug reports, requests for help, feature requests, comments, etc. to
+   bug-parted@gnu.org.
+
+For any copyright year range specified as YYYY-ZZZZ in this package
+note that the range specifies every single year in that closed interval.
+
+
+NOTE TO DISTRIBUTIONS
+---------------------
+
+(1) When compiling Parted for distribution for general use, we recommend using
+the default configuration:
+
+	CFLAGS=-Os ./configure
+
+This includes --enable-debug (by default), which contains many assertions.
+Obviously, these "waste" space, but in the past, they have caught potentially
+dangerous bugs before they would have done damage, so we think it's worth
+it.  Also, it means we get more bug reports ;)
+
+
+(2) When space is important, we suggest --without-readline, --disable-shared,
+and possibly --disable-nls.