[Parted-maintainers] Bug#719194: say that mkpart makes empty partitions right there in the mkpart paragraph

[jidanni at jidanni.org]

Package: parted
Version: 2.3-13
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/share/man/man8/parted.8.gz

We read

              mkpart part-type [fs-type] start end
                     Make a part-type partition with  filesystem  fs-type  (if
                     specified),  beginning  at  start  and  ending at end (by
                     default in megabytes).  fs-type can be  one  of  "fat16",
                     "fat32", "ext2", "HFS", "linux-swap", "NTFS", "reiserfs",
                     or "ufs".  part-type should be one of  "primary",  "logi-
                     cal", or "extended".

              mkpartfs part-type fs-type start end
                     Make a part-type partition with filesystem fs-type begin-
                     ning  at  start  and  ending  at  end  (by   default   in
                     megabytes).   Using this command is discouraged.  Instead
                     use mkpart to create an empty  partition,  and  then  use
                     external tools like mke2fs(8) to create the filesystem.

Empty partitions?!?!

Well then change the previous paragraph to say

              mkpart part-type [fs-type] start end
                     Make AN EMPTY part-type partition with  filesystem  fs-type  (if
                     specified),  beginning  at  start  and  ending at end (by
                     default in megabytes).  fs-type can be  one  of  "fat16",
                     "fat32", "ext2", "HFS", "linux-swap", "NTFS", "reiserfs",
                     or "ufs".  part-type should be one of  "primary",  "logi-
                     cal", or "extended".

for crying out loud!