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
values. For example:
fdisk -f -i /dev/rsd0d # initialize mbr and create an msdos partition.
fdisk -f -u -0 -a -s 169/-1/-1 /dev/rsd0d # converts the msdos partition
to a netbsd one, and makes it active.
in C source file to define option features.
Define proper options in each Makefile per ${MACHINE_ARCH} variable instead.
Previously if a host is x86 and it has /usr/mdec/mbr file in its system,
tools fdisk implicitly installs it as mbr bootcode even for !x86 targets.
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.
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.
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).
>> 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?
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.
