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

[Sven Luther]

On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 02:36:23AM -0400, A. Costa wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 12:08:40 -0300
> --- -	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".

Notice that in the current state of things, the debian package doesn't support
reiserfs anymore, ...

Friendly,

Sven Luther