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While there are no known bugs at the moment, they could exist, so please back
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up all important files before running it, and do so at your own risk.
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Parted currently supports DOS, Mac, PC98, BSD, GPT, MIPS and Sun disklabels /
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partition tables, as well as a 'loop' (raw disk) disklabel type which is
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useful for filesystems on RAID or LVM volumes.
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* Support for CHS and LBA addressing modes
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* Support for logical sector sizes not equal to 512
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* Support for device's alignment requirements (e.g. physical sector sizes that
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are a multiple of the logical sector size)
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* Uses SI units (byte multiples of 1000), supporting arbitrary specification
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of disk locations in sectors, bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes,
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cylinders and CHS notation
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* Knows about, detects and works around quirks of other partitioning tools and
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operating system implementations
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Operating system support:
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Parted currently supports:
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* Intel EFI/GPT parition tables
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* MS-DOS partition tables
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* Raw access (useful for RAID/LVM)
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* MIPS/DVH partition tables
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* Amiga partition tables
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* PC98 partition tabled
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* BSD disk labels (Linux-style; currently broken from a BSD view)
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* Macintosh parition maps
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Filesystems currently supported:
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[from the user documentation]
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ext3 | * | | *[1] | *[2] | *[3]
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fat16 | * | * | *[4] | *[4] | *
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fat32 | * | * | * | * | *
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linux-swap | * | * | * | * | *
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hfs/hfs+ | * | | *[1,5]| |
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linux-swap | * | * | * | * | *
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reiserfs | * | *[5] | *[1,5]| *[5] | *[3,5]
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reiserfs | * | *[6] | *[1,6]| *[6] | *[3,6]
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[1] Parted can't move the start of ext2 or ext3 partitions (yet).
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[2] The size of the partition you copy to must be greater than or equal to
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the size of the partition you copy from.
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[3] Limited checking is done when the filesystem is opened, this is the
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extent of ext2 checking done at the moment.
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[4] The size of the new partition, after resizing or copying, is restricted
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by the cluster size for fat (mainly affects FAT16). Parted can shrink
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cluster sizes, but cannot grow them on FAT16.
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[5] ReiserFS support is enabled if you install libreiserfs, currently in the
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libreiserfs0.3-0 package. Since libreiserfs0.3-0 is no more in sarge, the
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reiserfs create/resize/copy/check support is not built in in the debian package.
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[1] The start of the partition must stay fixed.
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[2] The partition you copy to must be bigger or exactly the same size as the
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partition you copy from.
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[3] Limited checking is done when the file system is opened. This is the only
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checking at the moment. All commands (including resize) will gracefully
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fail, leaving the file system intact, if there are any errors.
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[4] You can always shrink your partition. If you can't use FAT32 for some
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reason, you may not be able to grow your partition due to restrictions in
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[5] Parted can only shrink HFS and HFS+ filesystems.
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[6] ReiserFS support is enabled if you install libreiserfs.
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-- Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org>, Fri Sep 9 10:19:39 2005
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-- Xavier Oswald <x.oswald@free.fr> Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:31:15 +0200