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

[K.G.]

On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 02:36:23 -0400
"A. Costa" <agcosta at gis.net> wrote:

> 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...
> 
> ext3            | *     |       | *[1]  | *[2]  | *[3]
> fat16           | *     | *     | *[4]  | *[4]  | *
> fat32           | *     | *     | *     | *     | *
>-hfs             | *     |       |       |       |
>+hfs             | *     | *     | *     |       |
> jfs             | *     |       |       |       |
> linux-swap      | *     | *     | *     | *     | *
> ntfs            | *     |       |       |       |

Parted doesn't support hfs (or hfs+ / hfsx) creation (or somebody wrote
it behind my back ;) )

Cheers,
Guillaume Knispel