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Re: [docs] Suggestion for improvements (cp command)
From: |
Jari Aalto |
Subject: |
Re: [docs] Suggestion for improvements (cp command) |
Date: |
Sat, 05 Mar 2005 14:18:58 +0200 |
| 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)
Thank you,
I think these should be explained next to the 'cp' command. The
explanation for all commands is quite terse.
Where is the source document; that I could use to send diffs?
Jari