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bug #29578: No documentation on parttool

Submitter:  Chris K <colanderman>
Submitted:  Fri 16 Apr 2010 06:31:36 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Documentation Severity:  Major
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Feature Request
Status:  Fixed Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  cjwatson Originator Name:  Chris K
Open/Closed:  Closed Release:  1.97
Release:  Reproducibility:  Every Time
Planned Release:  None

Wed 02 Jun 2010 11:49:36 AM UTC, comment #1: 

I've committed documentation for the parttool command to 'info grub'.  Here's the text:

 -- Command: parttool partition commands
     Make various modifications to partition table entries.

     Each COMMAND is either a boolean option, in which case it must be
     followed with `+' or `-' (with no intervening space) to enable or
     disable that option, or else it takes a value in the form
     `COMMAND=VALUE'.

     Currently, `parttool' is only useful on DOS partition tables (also
     known as Master Boot Record, or MBR).  On these partition tables,
     the following commands are available:

    `boot' (boolean)
          When enabled, this makes the selected partition be the active
          (bootable) partition on its disk, clearing the active flag on
          all other partitions.  This command is limited to primary
          partitions.

    `type' (value)
          Change the type of an existing partition.  The value must be
          a number in the range 0-0xFF (prefix with `0x' to enter it in
          hexadecimal).

    `hidden' (boolean)
          When enabled, this hides the selected partition by setting
          the "hidden" bit in its partition type code; when disabled,
          unhides the selected partition by clearing this bit.  This is
          useful only when booting DOS or Wwindows and multiple primary
          FAT partitions exist in one disk.  See also *note
          DOS/Windows::.

Colin Watson <cjwatson>
Group Member
Fri 16 Apr 2010 06:31:36 PM UTC, original submission:  

Hi, I can't seem to find any documentation on the parttool command in Grub 2.  I've tried both the wiki and Google, and the best I can find is a mention in the CommandList page that hide, map and friends have been "replaced by parttool", with no link to any documentation on how exactly to use parttool.

Chris K <colanderman>

 

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    2010-06-02 cjwatson StatusNone Fixed
        Assigned toNone cjwatson
        Open/ClosedOpen Closed

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