[PATCH] fdisk.8: update information about GNU Parted

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The support for resizing partitions and filesystems has been
removed from parted since version 3.0.

Signed-off-by: Petr Uzel <petr.uzel@xxxxxxx>
---
 fdisk/fdisk.8 |    7 +++----
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fdisk/fdisk.8 b/fdisk/fdisk.8
index 2b12f34..fdaa050 100644
--- a/fdisk/fdisk.8
+++ b/fdisk/fdisk.8
@@ -256,10 +256,9 @@ is for hackers only -- the user interface is terrible, but it is
 more correct than fdisk and more powerful than both fdisk and cfdisk.
 Moreover, it can be used noninteractively.)
 .PP
-These days there also is
-.BR parted .
-The cfdisk interface is nicer, but parted does much more: it not only
-resizes partitions, but also the filesystems that live in them.
+There also is
+.BR parted
+which supports many types of different partition table formats.
 .PP
 The IRIX/SGI-type disklabel is currently not supported by the kernel.
 Moreover, IRIX/SGI header directories are not fully supported yet.
-- 
1.7.7

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