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@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ +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. |