dsl
5281921f56
Add info for -A ptn_alignment[/ptn_0_offset]
2009-12-23 20:56:18 +00:00
dsl
4d8b353d15
Put #endif in correct place - fixes PR/42500
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Update usage() for -A, and rename one of the variables for clarity.
2009-12-23 18:50:40 +00:00
dsl
9193c05dda
Add support for partition being aligned on non-cylinder boundaries.
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Info can be specified with -A parameter.
Default is based on how the first partition is defined.
For empty disks larger than 128GB (arbitrary figure) use 1MB alignment.
2009-12-22 21:55:12 +00:00
dsl
5cb32d7a27
Editing partitions larger than 1TB works better if 'decimal' returns
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64 bit integer values!
2009-12-22 21:04:37 +00:00
dsl
795733c59e
Add a large comment about disk geometries.
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Rename (with #defines) the variables use for aligning partitions to
separate them from the bios geometry.
All in advance of allowing other partition alignments (eg 2048 sectors).
2009-12-20 17:32:09 +00:00
pooka
3d1523b600
Use implicit -F for regular files, much like disklabel(8).
2009-12-17 14:27:49 +00:00
pooka
d6224f4507
Remove support for NetBSD/playstation2.
2009-12-05 16:29:10 +00:00
tsutsui
1baf5ea42e
Add a bunch of useful typical examples. Also use appropriate markup there.
2009-11-29 04:19:55 +00:00
tsutsui
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
tsutsui
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
tsutsui
fcf4b7e0c1
Remove fdisk/mbr for macppc which was blindly pulled from OpenBSD.
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It just fakes MBR partition map which contains 1MB FAT16B partition
and ~1GB OpenBSD partition, and we can always create necessary
MBR partitions for OpenFirmware by the fdisk(8) command itself.
2009-11-27 15:37:32 +00:00
dsl
fb64c309b2
Allow MB, GB and CYL (not just M, G and C) and lower case.
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Don't output a splurious 'd' before "cyl".
Fixes PR/37414.
Patch in PR is wrong!
2009-11-04 22:25:56 +00:00
dsl
3b8f95158f
Make absence of /usr/mdec/mbr only a warning.
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Fixes PR/26510
2009-10-31 20:41:00 +00:00
joerg
b2ed4022ca
Do not use .Xo / .Xc without a good reason.
2009-10-14 22:00:55 +00:00
yamt
44484fcfa9
an example.
2009-08-10 02:56:23 +00:00
dsl
68a8748cf1
Change arguments to decimal() to be int64_t.
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They need to be able to hold disk sector numbers > 2^31 and also -1.
Should fix PR/34807
2009-08-05 21:31:50 +00:00
snj
b80e388902
Small grammar tweak.
2009-07-02 00:49:58 +00:00
christos
1f751faed6
make this compile one non mbr machines (move #define to the general section)
2009-06-02 21:15:53 +00:00
christos
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
drochner
dff56c2587
also fix a comment wrt use of the csysid/cstart/csize vars
2009-04-20 17:06:55 +00:00
sborrill
45a4197562
When using -s flag, read start and size as unsigned to allow for larger
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disks. (Thanks to drochner@ for catching it).
2009-04-20 15:03:56 +00:00
lukem
e6cb0042e9
remove mispelt WARNS. (it will be set in ../Makefile.inc "soon")
2009-04-06 12:19:16 +00:00
lukem
428fc016ff
fix sign-compare issues
2009-04-06 12:18:19 +00:00
apb
44f43cf298
Remove local definitions of PRIxxxx macros in favour of the
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centralised definitions from tools/compat/compat_defs.h, which
are included via nbtool_config.h.
2009-01-18 21:15:14 +00:00
tnn
bc465dcf63
mbr_dsn is unsigned, print it as such.
2008-03-09 14:57:10 +00:00
dsl
7ddd81a137
Add support for mbr code with ascii keycodes
2008-01-25 23:19:10 +00:00
dsl
683572a3a3
Note the existance of mbr_com0 and mbr_com0_9600.
2008-01-20 15:04:09 +00:00
tsutsui
aa7cb7b8f0
- add a sanity check to avoid possible division by zero
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- adjust sector numbers _after_ "Sanity check the data against all zeroes"
Should close PR bin/37656.
2008-01-20 06:39:31 +00:00
apb
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
apb
ca6bb6217d
Track zero is not strictly reserved for the BIOS, that's just a
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convention, so don't make it an error in check_overlap(). Sector 0 is
reserved for the MBR, so make that an error in check_overlap().
2007-12-23 10:43:57 +00:00
apb
49b1fa58d7
Report the first active partition.
2007-12-23 08:58:34 +00:00
apb
29a92a49d4
If the partition is unused, then attempting to decode the PBR would
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actually decode the MBR from sector 0 of the disk. Don't do it if
v_flag < 3.
2007-12-23 08:14:28 +00:00
dsl
fe8a8005c1
Make this compile without -Wno-pointer-sign
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(Needs updated bootblock.h)
2007-11-29 23:19:25 +00:00
dsl
0d1f6529aa
Change -F to not use opendisk().
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Don't change default to the boot volume until after we've found we aren't
doing -F.
For tool-fdisk enforce -F and use #defines to make code that can no
longer possibly execute compile.
2007-11-29 23:02:00 +00:00
apb
02c42d6bae
Remove unwanted ">" from a printed message.
2007-11-18 19:19:00 +00:00
tsutsui
b682074ae4
Don't print Drive serial number if -S (setting shell variables) is specified.
2007-10-28 10:02:08 +00:00
tls
ae75a5cdbe
This program is a host tool, so when we use newfangled C features like
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PRIxyz we have to ensure it still builds on hosts with Old compilers.
Noticed while building a cross-toolchain on FreeBSD 4.
2007-09-04 00:34:58 +00:00
dsl
4c11bfb2e9
Preserve the mbr 'driver serial number' when copying in the netbsd
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mbr code. Should leave windows vista bootable.
Print the dsn from the mbr, not each pbr.
2007-07-05 20:30:29 +00:00
wiz
a115c64dc7
Plural fix.
2007-05-20 22:27:46 +00:00
christos
7731d9378a
PR/36223: Milos Negovanovic: Don't ask if we want to install mbr_bootselect
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with -f.
2007-04-26 18:51:00 +00:00
apb
41bcdc8c57
Bump date for previous.
2007-03-11 10:51:03 +00:00
apb
4713b815f3
WARNS= 4
2007-03-10 18:22:04 +00:00
apb
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
apb
4c9d64d78e
Try to check whether each partition is bootable. If not,
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always print an error message. If bootable and -v flag was
specified, print a success message. If -v flag was specified
more than once, also try to decode more information from
the PBR.
Input from dsl and bad.
2007-03-10 14:18:28 +00:00
dsl
26ad77c3e1
Report the last sector number of a partition, instead of that of the first
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of the next - with appropriate discarding of the head/sector values
if the partition is cylinder aligned.
Fixes PR 26921
2006-11-25 16:10:32 +00:00
wiz
da100ff1d9
Use more macros. New sentence, new line.
2006-09-24 15:52:12 +00:00
jmcneill
4fd9dcb2a0
PR# 28660: how to remove bootmenu text from some partition
2006-09-24 15:22:01 +00:00
lukem
272515842e
Support MAKEVERBOSE.
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Use CLEANFILES to cleanup temp files instead of rm.
Cosmetic tweaks.
2006-06-28 15:03:00 +00:00
lukem
a0f0fb81a8
Convert to using CC instead of LD, as LDFLAGS is for CC not LD.
2006-06-28 15:00:51 +00:00
christos
e5ea88eb01
PR/33633: Yoshito Komatsu: /sbin/fdisk does not work
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Downgrade error getting heads to a warning.
2006-06-02 17:40:34 +00:00