The -H, -L and -P options are ignored unless the -R option is
specified. In addition, these options override each other and the
command's actions are determined by the last one specified.
Add:
The default is as if the -P option had been specified.
to create/resize an aligned one failed. This simplifies the code
and prevents surprises. If the user wants an unaligned partition
in the case where an aligned one fails, they can simply retry the
command without the "-a" option. This change was requested by
wiz@, and after some thought I agree with it.
Use less bogus CHS addresses in PMBR.
With the ending head set at 0xff one machine I have will never leave
the initial startup screen if such a disk is present. Additionally,
Wikipedia suggests without citiation that 254 is the maximium allowable
value for the head, and this seems to be the case.
This would be a problem only when allocating a new data block and the
indir block is already allocated, which explains why automated tests didn't
find it.
Problem reported on tech-kern@ and fix tested by manu@.
- s/-b number/-b blocknr/
- s/-s count/-s sectors/
- s/-p count/-p partitions/
In the program:
- s/-b lba/-b blocknr/
- s/-s lba/-s sectors/
This makes the documentation in the manpage and the program consistent
and makes it more clear what the parameters are. Also, "-s lba" was
just plain wrong since LBA stands for Logical Block Address[ing], and
the -s option didn't represent any kind of address, but rather a size.
-a alignment -- attempt to align the start and size of the partition
-l label -- supply a label for the partition
These options were inspired by FreeBSD's gpart(8) command, but the
code was written by me.
figure out how to enable mounts for unprivileged users. (Why don't we
just explain vfs.generic.usermount in the mount(8) man page?)
Also add another example of different ways in which the "special"
argument is interpreted by different file systems: mount_tmpfs(8)
ignores it.
apb