From 187e7cba48094505f00532698dfb04ab40575231 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 11:16:54 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] doc: improve NEWS * NEWS: Expand/adjust wording in two entries. --- NEWS | 13 ++++++++----- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2793ce4..fc93e98 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -4,7 +4,9 @@ GNU parted NEWS -*- outline -*- ** New features - Increased limit for msdos partitions from 16 to 64 + parted now supports up to 64 msdos partitions (was 16). The partition + table format imposes no limit (it's simply a linked list), so we may + raise it further, if needed. parted has improved support for partitionable loopback devices @@ -75,10 +77,11 @@ GNU parted NEWS -*- outline -*- anyhow, and some users have a misconfigured BIOS that claims to have a floppy when they don't, and scanning gets hung up. - parted: mkpart command has changed semantics with regard to specifying end - of the partition. If the end is specified using MiB, GiB, etc. unit, parted - subtracts one sector from the specified value. With this change, it is now - possible to create partitions like 1MiB-2MiB, 2MiB-3MiB and so on. + parted: the mkpart command has changed semantics with regard to specifying + the end of the partition. If the end is specified using units of MiB, GiB, + etc., parted subtracts one sector from the specified value. With this + change, it is now possible to create partitions like 1MiB-2MiB, 2MiB-3MiB + and so on. Device-mapper devices ( LVM, dmraid ) no longer insert a 'p' between the base device name and the partition number unless the last character of -- 2.11.0