1 From 22a2fd360f5f0f8e7e522712a6187b1c6ac74ba7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
2 From: Gareth Randall <gareth.randall@virgin.net>
3 Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 10:07:42 -0700
4 Subject: [PATCH 43/53] docs: Improve partition description in parted.texi
6 (cherry picked from commit e27ac8ff6706f67817f68246311899bd920b9c88)
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11 diff --git a/doc/parted.texi b/doc/parted.texi
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15 @@ -291,12 +291,38 @@ or you want to modify a root or boot partition, use GParted Live:
16 @section Introduction to Partitioning
17 @cindex partitioning overview
19 -Unfortunately, partitioning your disk is rather complicated. This is
20 -because there are interactions between many different systems that need
21 -to be taken into consideration.
22 +Partitioning is the process of dividing a storage device into local
23 +sections, called partitions, which help organize multiple filesystems
24 +and their associated operating systems.
26 +A storage device presents itself as a sequence of bytes, numbered
27 +starting from zero and increasing until the maximum capacity of the
28 +device is reached. Bytes are normally read and written a sector at a
29 +time, rather than individually. Each sector contains a fixed number
30 +of bytes, with the number determined by the device.
33 ++------------------------------------------------------------+
34 +| storage device with no partitions |
35 ++------------------------------------------------------------+
39 +In order to store multiple filesystems, a storage device can be divided
40 +up in to multiple partitions. Each partition can be thought of as an
41 +area which contains a real filesystem inside of it. To show where these
42 +partitions are on the device a small table is written at the start,
43 +shown as PT in the diagram below. This table is called a partition
44 +table, or disklabel, and also stores the type of each partition and
48 ++--+---------------+----------------+------------------------+
49 +|PT| Partition 1 | Partition 2 | Partition 3 |
50 ++--+---------------+----------------+------------------------+
54 -This manual used to introduce the reader to these systems and their
55 -working. This content has moved to the GNU Storage Guide.
58 @section Using GNU Parted