Bug#298020: [Parted-maintainers] Bug#298020: Suggested reopen: "298020: parted: hfs(+) support is still poorly documented"

[A. Costa]

On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 12:08:40 -0300
Otavio Salvador <otavio at debian.org> wrote:

> If you can prepare a new patch against the current release would
> awesome :-)

See attached .diff files for '/usr/share/man/man8/parted.8.gz' and
'/usr/share/doc/parted/README.Debian'.  Kindly check 'em for accuracy
please, as I'm not a Mac or HFS expert and may have missed some
significant detail.

Examples:  

I cribbed my data from the 'info' manual -- which doesn't mention 'hfs
+' that often.  (It has a lot about 'hfs' without the ''+'.)  The changelog
includes 'HFS+', but I didn't know which was correct, so I left 'hfs
+' out.

The man page says 'parted mkfs FAT' is OK, but the info page says
it should be 'parted mkfs fat16' (or fat32).  I changed it to agree
with the info page.

Also, should 'hfs' be capitilized?  The changelog has 'HFS', but the
info page has both 'hfs' and 'HFS'.  Right or wrong, I copied the
'info' usage.

HTH...
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--- /usr/share/doc/parted/README.Debian	2005-09-03 12:22:47.000000000 -0400
+++ /tmp/README.Debian	2005-09-08 01:26:10.000000000 -0400
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 ext3            | *     |       | *[1]  | *[2]  | *[3]
 fat16           | *     | *     | *[4]  | *[4]  | *
 fat32           | *     | *     | *     | *     | *
-hfs             | *     |       |       |       |
+hfs             | *     | *     | *     |       |
 jfs             | *     |       |       |       |
 linux-swap      | *     | *     | *     | *     | *
 ntfs            | *     |       |       |       |
@@ -40,3 +40,5 @@
     reiserfs create/resize/copy/check support is not built in in the debian package.
  
  -- Sven Luther <luther at debian.org>  Tue, 28 Sep 2004 06:14:20 +0200
+
+ -- Minor revision Thu, 8 Sep 2005 01:23:16 -- updated table row for 'hfs'.
\ No newline at end of file
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--- -	2005-09-08 02:30:02.302502000 -0400
+++ /tmp/parted8.gz.12875	2005-09-08 02:30:02.000000000 -0400
@@ -28,8 +28,9 @@
 .PP
 .B parted
 is a disk partitioning and partition resizing program.  It allows you to
-create, destroy, resize, move and copy ext2, ext3, linux-swap, FAT and FAT32
-partitions. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems,
+create, destroy, resize, move and copy ext2, ext3, linux-swap, FAT, FAT32, and reiserfs
+partitions.  It can create, resize and move Macintosh HFS partitions, as well as detect jfs, 
+ntfs, ufs, and xfs partitions.  It is useful for creating space for new operating systems,
 reorganising disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks.
 .SH OPTIONS
 .TP
@@ -67,7 +68,7 @@
 .TP
 .B mkfs \fIpartition\fP \fIfs-type\fP
 make a filesystem \fIfs-type\fP on \fIpartition\fP. \fIfs-type\fP can be one
-of "FAT", "ext2" or "linux-swap".
+of "fat16", "fat32", "ext2", "linux-swap" or "reiserfs".
 .TP
 .B mklabel \fIlabel-type\fP
 Creates a new disklabel (partition table) of \fIlabel-type\fP.
@@ -77,6 +78,8 @@
 .B mkpart \fIpart-type\fP \fI[fs-type]\fP \fIstart\fP \fIend\fP
 make a \fIpart-type\fP partition with filesystem \fIfs-type\fP (if specified),
 beginning at \fIstart\fP and ending at \fIend\fP (in megabytes).
+\fIfs-type\fP can be one of 
+"fat16", "fat32", "ext2", "HFS", "linux-swap", "NTFS", "reiserfs" or "ufs".
 \fIpart-type\fP should be one of "primary", "logical" or "extended"
 .TP
 .B mkpartfs \fIpart-type\fP \fIfs-type\fP \fIstart\fP \fIend\fP
@@ -120,9 +123,11 @@
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .BR fdisk (8),
 .BR mkfs (8),
-The \fIparted\fP program is documented fully in the
+The \fIparted\fP program is fully documented in the
+.BR info(1) 
+format
 .IR "GNU partitioning software"
-manual available via the Info system.
+manual.
 .SH AUTHOR
 This manual page was written by Timshel Knoll <timshel at debian.org>,
 for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).