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From c051e9f7eaae007940a73be1509257bd52c569de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>
Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 14:43:39 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 44/48] Document resizepart command

(cherry picked from commit 5c793853fe5cb0718d895c3394fb909c73c6fa1e)

Related: rhbz#1423357
---
 doc/C/parted.8  |  4 ++++
 doc/parted.texi | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/C/parted.8 b/doc/C/parted.8
index 03bb3a5..5a24c94 100644
--- a/doc/C/parted.8
+++ b/doc/C/parted.8
@@ -95,6 +95,10 @@ Rescue a lost partition that was located somewhere between \fIstart\fP and
 \fIend\fP.  If a partition is found, \fBparted\fP will ask if you want to
 create an entry for it in the partition table.
 .TP
+.B resizepart \fIpartition\fP \fIend\fP
+Change the \fIend\fP position of \fIpartition\fP.  Note that this does not
+modify any filesystem present in the partition.
+.TP
 .B rm \fIpartition\fP
 Delete \fIpartition\fP.
 .TP
diff --git a/doc/parted.texi b/doc/parted.texi
index f10d5e1..d498367 100644
--- a/doc/parted.texi
+++ b/doc/parted.texi
@@ -423,6 +423,7 @@ GNU Parted provides the following commands:
 * print::
 * quit::
 * rescue::
+* resizepart::
 * rm::
 * select::
 * set::
@@ -715,6 +716,21 @@ It's back!  :)
 
 @end deffn
 
+@node resizepart
+@subsection resizepart
+@cindex resizepart, command description
+@cindex command description, resizepart
+
+@deffn Command resizepart @var{number} @var{end}
+
+Moves the @var{end} position of partition @var{number}.  Note that this
+does not modify any filesystem present in the partition.  If you wish to
+do this, you will need to use external tools, such as @command{resize2fs}.
+
+When growing a partition you will want to grow the filesystem afterwards,
+but when shrinking, you need to shrink the filesystem before the partition.
+@end deffn
+
 @node rm
 @subsection rm
 @cindex rm, command description
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