4d8d2d3c45
Revert my previous commit, I misunderstood the intention.
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Noted by njoly.
2012-10-06 09:11:34 +00:00
ff22935a2e
Previous slightly more consistently.
2012-10-05 21:30:29 +00:00
1fd47d12e9
Fix indented blocks rendering with mandoc. Switch from .in unsupported
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macro to .Bd/.Ed ones. While here kill some unneeded .Pp/.br macros.
2012-10-05 18:07:46 +00:00
1ac719d147
Remove unnecessary Bk/Ek pairs from SYNOPSIS.
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No effective change except where I used the opportunity to sort options
and/or option descriptions.
2012-04-08 22:00:37 +00:00
788118e647
support sector sizes > 512.
2012-04-06 20:09:26 +00:00
68693617f8
Remove trailing whitespace.
2012-01-04 10:57:40 +00:00
99370de066
According to most other OSes and documentation sources, an MBR has
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one "extended" partition and the partitions inside that are "logical"
partitions. Make fdisk(8) man page follow suit.
Patch from Julian Fagir in PR#45695.
2011-12-31 22:18:56 +00:00
1b8846959e
Remove trailing whitespace.
2011-12-01 23:14:06 +00:00
7bef7412af
Add a flag to support writing overlapping partitions and explain why.
2011-12-01 22:24:29 +00:00
a26db019aa
Use Nx.
2011-04-25 22:23:47 +00:00
d129d948ec
Minor punctuation fixes, improve and sort SYNOPSIS, sort flag descriptions.
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From Bug Hunting in PR 43130.
2010-04-07 09:40:58 +00:00
5281921f56
Add info for -A ptn_alignment[/ptn_0_offset]
2009-12-23 20:56:18 +00:00
3d1523b600
Use implicit -F for regular files, much like disklabel(8).
2009-12-17 14:27:49 +00:00
d6224f4507
Remove support for NetBSD/playstation2.
2009-12-05 16:29:10 +00:00
1baf5ea42e
Add a bunch of useful typical examples. Also use appropriate markup there.
2009-11-29 04:19:55 +00:00
1735ad7d34
Update -u usage to follow changes in fdisk.c rev 1.125:
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>> Allow MB, GB and CYL (not just M, G and C) and lower case.
>> Don't output a splurious 'd' before "cyl".
>> Fixes PR/37414.
XXX "NNcy" is also allowed?
2009-11-28 17:25:45 +00:00
d5fb21858d
Clarify description of -f and -u options.
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(-u means updating partition data, not interactive mode)
2009-11-28 16:45:20 +00:00
b2ed4022ca
Do not use .Xo / .Xc without a good reason.
2009-10-14 22:00:55 +00:00
44484fcfa9
an example.
2009-08-10 02:56:23 +00:00
b80e388902
Small grammar tweak.
2009-07-02 00:49:58 +00:00
cb3a6fdee7
Delete GPT partitions if we overwrite with MBR to avoid confusion with disks
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that have both MBR and a secondary left over GPT partition signature. From
Mike M. Volokhov
2009-06-01 19:57:33 +00:00
683572a3a3
Note the existance of mbr_com0 and mbr_com0_9600.
2008-01-20 15:04:09 +00:00
bb3a1dfc42
Remove note about the first track being reserved for the BIOS (it's
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not), and replace it with a note about the first partition traditionally
beginning in the second track of the first cylinder.
2007-12-23 10:47:42 +00:00
49b1fa58d7
Report the first active partition.
2007-12-23 08:58:34 +00:00
a115c64dc7
Plural fix.
2007-05-20 22:27:46 +00:00
41bcdc8c57
Bump date for previous.
2007-03-11 10:51:03 +00:00
7a268741a3
Document the new checks for whether a PBR is bootable.
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Also add more detail in the introduction, and a few
more references.
2007-03-10 14:19:46 +00:00
da100ff1d9
Use more macros. New sentence, new line.
2006-09-24 15:52:12 +00:00
4fd9dcb2a0
PR# 28660: how to remove bootmenu text from some partition
2006-09-24 15:22:01 +00:00
4118385742
Allow partition sizes to be input in GB
2005-04-07 20:23:13 +00:00
3eac78fb64
s/Nm/Nx/, as it's NetBSD that has ports, not fdisk.
2004-07-13 19:24:03 +00:00
af679c56e7
Bump date for previous; new sentence, new line;
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sort list of ports where fdisk is available.
2004-07-13 13:38:39 +00:00
e3937fb4c5
Add note top man page explaining that fdisk is not used on all platforms
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and list the ones that is is.
Partial fix to PR#25943
2004-07-13 10:45:49 +00:00
fcfc427464
Use .Pp instead of .br as appropriate.
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(This needs more work)
2004-03-22 05:07:56 +00:00
24be734e2d
Nm needs no argument; also, correct wrong Nm usage.
2004-03-20 18:49:33 +00:00
17ed0d0099
Bump date for last. Use Sq for single quotes. Drop trailing space.
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New sentence, new line. Sort xrefs. Fix a spelling error.
2004-03-19 22:21:36 +00:00
6c02382b7e
Add flag -F, options -t disktab and -T disktype to fdisk. Flag -F
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indicates that the target of the fdisk operation is a file, not a
disk. With -t and -T, the user tells fdisk the geometry for the
file If the default geometry that fdisk will "fake up" for a file
are not satisfactory, the user may tell the geometry to fdisk using
-t disktab -T disktype.
2004-03-19 18:19:17 +00:00
f41de51799
be consistent about "MS-DOS"
2003-10-06 12:02:52 +00:00
e5986b088f
add missing . before Fl
2003-06-03 12:35:54 +00:00
c94730c38a
MBR, not mbr.
2003-05-06 07:56:03 +00:00
5e53f766f8
Change a couple of .Em to .Ar
2003-05-01 13:36:25 +00:00
0682f1a427
Replace some raw roff with mdoc.
2003-05-01 13:01:17 +00:00
0d14e41651
Improve formatting for [/bootmenu], requested by dsl; add some commas.
2003-05-01 12:55:52 +00:00
315515ebe4
a mbr -> an mbr
2003-05-01 10:43:58 +00:00
b3d7fe267b
Drop trailing space.
2003-05-01 09:50:12 +00:00
fa01152676
Rototilled fdisk that supports:
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- editing of the extended partition list
- user friendly default start/size for new partitions
- partition start/size input in sectors, cylinders or MB
- bootsel menu names configured with paritition bounds
- partition update loop asks used which partition to change
(instead of asking about each partition in turn).
- detection (and erroring) of overlapped partitions.
- automatic installation of correct mbr_xxx code (after prompting user)
2003-04-30 19:47:10 +00:00
990562bfef
.Nm does not need a dummy argument ("") before punctuation or
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for correct formatting of the SYNOPSIS any longer.
2003-02-25 10:34:36 +00:00
82ece76c41
Drop trailing space (in last).
2003-02-09 21:56:19 +00:00
d259c39de5
Slightly clarify/improve the documentation for the -B (boot selector)
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option
2003-02-09 20:46:29 +00:00
2fb4b1db52
New sentence, new line. By Robert Elz with minimal fixes.
2002-10-01 13:40:23 +00:00
wiz