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@@ -3,25 +3,20 @@ GNU Parted GNU Parted is a program for manipulating partition tables. -WARNING: USING PARTED TO PERFORM FILE SYSTEM OPERATIONS IS DEPRECATED ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - -Parted retains (for now) the ability to create and modify a few types of -file systems, but that functionality is deprecated. Whenever possible, -we recommend that you use file-system-specific tools to create and -operate on file systems. For example, use the e2fsprogs programs -to operate on ext2, ext3 and ext4 file systems. Use programs from -the reiserfsprogs package if you want to manipulate reiserfs file -systems. Although Parted lets you do some of the same things, the -file-system-related code in parted is not as robust as the code in -more specialized, FS-specific packages. - -So far, we have good arguments for retaining the capability to resize -FAT and HFS file systems: as far as we know, no other free software -provides that functionality. However, all other FS-related functionality -will be removed from an upcoming release of Parted. Thus, you should -now avoid using the following commands: mkpartfs, mkfs, cp, move, check -since support for them will be removed. +WARNING: USING PARTED TO PERFORM FILE SYSTEM OPERATIONS IS NO LONGER SUPPORTED +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ + +Parted (post-2.4) no longer has the ability to create and modify file systems. +Use file-system-specific tools to create and operate on file systems. +For example, use the e2fsprogs programs to operate on ext2, ext3 and ext4 +file systems. Use programs from the reiserfsprogs package if you want to +manipulate reiserfs file systems. Although Parted lets you do some of the +same things, the file-system-related code in parted is not as robust as the +code in more specialized, FS-specific packages. + +Most FS-related functionality was removed after Parted 2.4. +Thus, the following commands are no longer supported: +mkpartfs, mkfs, cp, move, check, resize. See the file NEWS for a list of major changes in the current release. |