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Re: [docs] Suggestion for improvements
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Andrew Clausen |
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Re: [docs] Suggestion for improvements |
Date: |
Sat, 5 Mar 2005 03:26:55 +1100 |
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On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 12:50:13AM +0200, Jari Aalto wrote:
>
> [Keep CC I'm not in list]
>
> For page http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/html_mono/parted.html
> Please add more explanation (to manual pages as well) concerning these:
>
> 2.4.2 cp
>
> - Must the DEST partition be equal size?
> - What actually happens when FROM is smaller to DEST?
> - if DEST is maller than FROM, can parted copy only the DATA
> that is occupied in FROM and ignore rest?
>
> Like if FROM is 100M but only 30M used, and DEST is 50M
I think the answers to your questions are obvious after reading the
manual page. But, I'm the worst person to make that judgement :)
The answers to these questions are:
(1) No.
(2) The file system gets grown to take up the full space of DEST.
(3) In the case of FAT16/FAT32, yes. In the case of ext2, Parted
will refuse to copy the partition. (The ext2 code isn't as versatile
as the FAT code)
Feel free to suggest an alternative wording.
Cheers,
Andrew