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- Document the HISTORY of fdisk based on the original post to comp.unix.bsd by

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Julian Elischer [1] and the Mach 2.5 Installation notes [2].
I was unable to pin point the exact version of Mach the fdisk utility appeared
as I didn't find documentation older than version 2.5 & no source code or repo
history. fdisk utility appears as a separate utility[3] in v2.5. Due to this,
I've avoided stating the exact version fdisk first appeared in Mach.
- Make correction pointed by textproc/igor
- Bump date

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/comp.unix.bsd/14-Dec-89$20Robert$20Baron$20(rvb)$20at$20Carnegie-Mellon$20University%7Csort:relevance/comp.unix.bsd/Hhi45vAHxDg

[2] ftp://ftp.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/doc/misc/mach-i386-doc/i386_install.ps
[3] ftp://ftp.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/doc/misc/mach-i386-doc/i386_manpages.ps
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.\" $NetBSD: fdisk.8,v 1.85 2014/04/04 13:07:30 wiz Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: fdisk.8,v 1.86 2016/09/11 03:35:08 sevan Exp $
.\"
.Dd April 3, 2014
.Dd September 11, 2016
.Dt FDISK 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -157,11 +157,11 @@ is specified and
is not specified, then the offset is set to the alignment.
If
.Fl A
isn't specified, then the alignment of the first partition is inspected.
is not specified, then the alignment of the first partition is inspected.
If it ends on a 2048 sector boundary, then the alignment is set to 2048,
if the start is a power of 2 less than, or equal to 2048 then the offset
is set to the start sector.
If the first partition isn't defined then the alignment and offset for disks
If the first partition is not defined then the alignment and offset for disks
larger than 128GB is set to 2048 (1MB).
In all other cases the alignment default to a cylinder
and the offset to a track (both using the BIOS geometry).
@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ machines.
Specify logical partition
.Ar number
to be printed or updated.
If the specified logical partition doesn't exist on updating partition data
If the specified logical partition does not exist on updating partition data
an additional logical partition will be created.
.It Fl F
Indicate that
@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ If
is specified for any partition
.Nm
will determine whether the installed boot code supports the bootselect code,
if it doesn't you will be asked whether you want to install the required
if it does not you will be asked whether you want to install the required
boot code.
To remove a
.Em bootmenu
@ -652,6 +652,21 @@ partition using whole disk without prompt against 1GB disk image file
.Xr installboot 8 ,
.Xr mbr 8 ,
.Xr mbrlabel 8
.Sh HISTORY
A version of
.Nm
first appeared in the Mach Operating System.
It was subsequently ported to
.Bx 386 .
.Sh AUTHORS
.An -nosplit
.Nm
for Mach Operating System was written by
.An Robert Baron Aq Mt rvb@cs.cmu.edu .
It was ported to
.Bx 386
by
.An Julian Elischer Aq Mt julian@tfs.com .
.Sh BUGS
The word
.Sq partition