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This article has been viewed , times. Learn more These steps apply to any written instruction, from the very simple How to Clap to the intensely complicated How to Build a Semiconductor. To write a manual, break the process you're trying to outline down into easy, digestible chunks so that readers can follow along step-by-step. Also, make sure your manual follows a logical sequence so that readers can do everything in order without having to skip around between sections.
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Follow a logical sequence. This is especially useful if you do not know the subject matter well. Use this as your template for your table of contents. Review your steps. Gather your supplies. Part 3. Write the introduction. Will it be light and amusing, or straightforward and no-nonsense? It depends on your readership. Establish the tone early and keep that tone throughout the manual. Perform each step as you write. Not only does this give your writing the air of honesty and authenticity, you also ensure nothing will get left out.
If, for some reason, it isn't feasible to do the steps, think them through thoroughly and consult somebody who is an expert. If you accidently delete a partition with this command, use mkpart to recover it. Also, you can use the gpart program see Related information to recover damaged disk labels. Note for msdos disk labels: if you delete a logical partition, all logical partitions with a larger partition number will be renumbered.
For example, if you delete a logical partition with a partition number of 6, then logical partitions that were number 7, 8 and 9 would be renumbered to 6, 7 and 8 respectively.
Next: set , Previous: rm , Up: Command explanations [ Index ]. Selects the device, device , for Parted to edit. Next: unit , Previous: select , Up: Command explanations [ Index ]. Changes a flag on the partition with number number. The semantics vary between disk labels.
If you are installing LILO on a partition that partition must be bootable. For PC98 disk labels, all ext2 partitions must be bootable this is enforced by Parted. It may optionally be set on Linux filesystems to mimic the type of configuration created by parted 3. This flag can only be removed within parted by replacing it with a competing flag, such as boot or msftres. GPT - this flag indicates a partition that can be used with the Chrome OS bootloader and verified boot implementation.
Previous: set , Up: Command explanations [ Index ]. Selects the current default unit that Parted will use to display locations and capacities on the disk and to interpret those given by the user if they are not suffixed by an unit. This is a special unit that defaults to megabytes for input, and picks a unit that gives a compact human readable representation for output. The default unit apply only for the output and when no unit is specified after an input number. Input numbers can be followed by an unit without any space or other character between them , in which case this unit apply instead of the default unit for this particular number, but CHS and cylinder units are not supported as a suffix.
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