9. Related Software and Info

If you want to find out more information, feel free to send questions to [email protected]. (!) indicates the information/software is probably included in your distribution.

These files in the Parted distribution contain further information:

• ABOUT-NLS - information about using Native Language Support, and the Free Translation Project
• API - the documentation for the libparted API
• AUTHORS - who wrote what
• BUGS - unfixed bugs
• ChangeLog - record of changes made to Parted
• COPYING - the GNU General Public License, the terms under which GNU Parted may be distributed
• COPYING.DOC - the GNU Free Documentation Licence, the term under which Parted's documentation may be distributed.
• FAT -- information on how the FAT resizer works (for programmers)
• INSTALL -- how to compile and install Parted, and most other free software
• TODO -- planned features that are not yet implemented

These documents are not distributed with Parted, but you may find them useful. Most of these will probably be in your distribution. For example, on Red Hat Linux, look on the CD in `/doc/HOWTO' and `/doc/FAQ'.

• Filesystems HOWTO http://penguin.cz/~mhi/fs
• Hard Disk Upgrade mini-HOWTO (!): http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO
• Large Disk HOWTO http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/Large-Disk.html
• LILO mini-HOWTO (!) http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO
• MILO HOWTO (!) http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO
• Linux+OS mini-HOWTOs (!): Linux+DOS+Win95+OS2, Linux+FreeBSD-mini-HOWTO, Linux+Win95, Linux+FreeBSD, Linux+NT-Loader. You can get these from: http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO
• Partition mini-HOWTO (!): http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Partition/index.html
• Partition Table HOWTO http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_tables.html
• Partition Types list http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types.html
• Software RAID HOWTO http://linas.org/linux/Software-RAID/Software-RAID.html

Other related programs are listed here. Some of these also have useful documentation:

• Disk Drake. Available at www.linux-mandrake.com/diskdrake This is similar in functionality to Parted. The FAT code in Disk Drake is based on our Parted code. Here's how Disk Drake compares to Parted: (which we both agree to :-) Disk Drake is:
  • easier to use, protects you from making mistakes
  • more complete solution (handles `/etc/fstab', lilo, etc.)
  • less support for FAT (can't convert FAT16<->FAT32, can't copy partitions)
  • less support for ext2 (at the moment)
  • less attention to compatibility between (older) DOS/Windows systems
  • no support for non-PC architectures
• dvhtool (for SGI/MIPS) (!)
• dosfsck (!)
• e2fsck, resize2fs e2fsprogs (!) http://web.mit.edu/tytso/www/linux/e2fsprogs.html
• ext2resize - uses the same code as Parted, but includes some other goodies as well, such as an online ext2 resizer, that doesn't require unmounting. http://ext2resize.sourceforge.net
• fdisk (!)
• FIPS (!) (First Interactive Partition Splitter) http://www.igd.fhg.de/~aschaefe/fips RMK: standards: GPL'd
• GPart - recovers broken partition tables. http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart
• GNU GRUB - GRand Unified Boot-loader http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub.html
• LILO (!) (LInux LOader) ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/packages/lilo
• LVM http://linux.msede.com/lvm
• mkdosfs (!) (sometimes called mkfs.msdos)
• mke2fs (!) (sometimes called mkfs.ext2)
• mkfs (!)
• mkswap (!)
• quik (!)
• reiserfs: NOTE: a reiserfs resizer is included with normal reiserfs distribution. http://devlinux.com/projects/reiserfs Also, an independent reimplementation of reiserfs userland (which parted can utilize) http://reiserfs.linux.kiev.ua. This may be adopted by the other reiserfs people in future...
• yaboot (!) http://ppclinux.apple.com/~benh/
• ybin (!) http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ybin/

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