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Re: Features summary
From: |
Andrew Clausen |
Subject: |
Re: Features summary |
Date: |
Thu, 05 Oct 2000 15:36:15 +1100 |
Michal Svec wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> I wrote a small feature summary of the Parted, can you please look at it
> and possibly correct mistakes or fill up missing things?
Excellent :-)
> GNU Parted Features Summary
> ===========================
> + GPL License
> + create/destroy any fs
ext2, fat, linux-swap
> + cmdline interface
> + i386 platform
> + i18n
> - full fscking not implemented
>
> + safety checks
> + designed to minimize the chance of data loss
> + well supported (developers on the mailing-list)
> + Alpha platform supported
i386 supported (perhaps best to have this next "i386 platform"...
> + should be well tested
> + copy/move/resize ext2, fat and swap
> + good user documentation (DriveSpace, ...)
>
> - limited ext2 support
> - cannot change the cluster size of fat
Incorrect. It can't grow the cluster size, but it can shrink it. I
should be clearer in the docs, shouldn't I...!
> In development:
> + limited RAID/LVM support
> + alpha, ppc and pc98 platforms support
alpha is already supported (although untested for a while!)
> + FAT cluster changes (?)
Already complete in the current stable version (1.2.x). I am not
attempting to add support for growing the cluster size, at this stage.
+ can detect (but not do anything else with): NTFS, HFS, reiserfs
Andrew Clausen