christos
cd40e75014
explain how to clear an entry (without reading the source)
2015-11-22 15:53:10 +00:00
christos
5bf62a09d2
a few more \n's in errors
2015-06-16 23:58:30 +00:00
christos
d3037dba83
fix error messages containing \n
2015-06-16 23:18:54 +00:00
christos
b2fb66aceb
remove debugging.
2014-04-04 16:15:30 +00:00
wiz
57965cb9dc
-s:
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If the optional arguments are not provided, they stay as before or
use the same defaults as the interactive mode, if new.
(feel free to improve)
2014-04-04 13:07:30 +00:00
wiz
ec456f9653
Fix a bug in previous and update detailed -s description.
2014-04-04 09:32:56 +00:00
wiz
dd17dc5d6c
Update SYNOPSIS.
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Christos, please check.
2014-04-03 21:56:19 +00:00
christos
1e0f8240e6
instead of using ugly -1's make args optional
2014-04-03 17:07:11 +00:00
christos
6449a2097b
default to something reasonable (like the interactive mode does) instead
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of 0 when -1 is specified for the start or size.
2014-04-01 19:08:48 +00:00
martin
aad6ef8bb5
Bring back the playstation2 port - now that a toolchain for it is
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available again.
2014-03-31 11:25:47 +00:00
christos
58dbdf3810
Allow -1 values in the -s <sysid>/<start>/<size> indicate use the previous
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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.
2014-03-30 22:18:13 +00:00
jakllsch
6b4d75e30b
Always print the MBR drive serial number, even if it's 0.
2014-03-10 15:42:51 +00:00
apb
d53a09e4f6
Suggest using -b 1023/255/63 for modern disks where the BIOS is
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configured to use LBA-Assisted translation.
2013-10-06 12:27:15 +00:00
jakllsch
3106f2915c
Improve support for logical sector sizes greater than 512.
2013-04-14 22:48:22 +00:00
christos
c1fffff4c4
Don't produce spurious errors when creating labels on files.
2013-02-13 00:40:28 +00:00
christos
26a38a4618
CID/979997: missing va_end()
2013-02-09 01:50:04 +00:00
wiz
4d8d2d3c45
Revert my previous commit, I misunderstood the intention.
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Noted by njoly.
2012-10-06 09:11:34 +00:00
wiz
ff22935a2e
Previous slightly more consistently.
2012-10-05 21:30:29 +00:00
njoly
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
tsutsui
0532bb776d
Use ${DESTDIR}/usr/mdec for DEFAULT_BOOTDIR on tools fdisk(8)
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rather than unknown build host's /usr/mdec directory.
XXX: no option to leave MBR bootcode empty on x86 targets
2012-06-05 13:41:23 +00:00
tsutsui
56ed3d51fc
Don't use "#if defined(__i386__) || defined(__x86_64__)" conditionals
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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.
2012-05-05 16:03:55 +00:00
wiz
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
christos
788118e647
support sector sizes > 512.
2012-04-06 20:09:26 +00:00
joerg
66dd2755f5
Add __printflike attribution to use vprintf and friends with an argument
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as format string.
2012-03-15 02:02:20 +00:00
wiz
68693617f8
Remove trailing whitespace.
2012-01-04 10:57:40 +00:00
riz
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
christos
765bd39696
Also ignore out of space conditions for -I so we can create overlapping
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partitions on a full disk. Document and add it to the options.
2011-12-02 15:21:15 +00:00
enami
ecc71da821
Add missing -F flag and -I flag in usage. Sort the order to match
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manpage.
2011-12-02 04:05:20 +00:00
christos
6d19ec83d5
put the error check in the conditional where it belongs.
2011-12-02 03:04:11 +00:00
wiz
1b8846959e
Remove trailing whitespace.
2011-12-01 23:14:06 +00:00
christos
7bef7412af
Add a flag to support writing overlapping partitions and explain why.
2011-12-01 22:24:29 +00:00
gson
d2c5449570
fix the sparc build
2011-08-28 15:46:26 +00:00
christos
4d53e32690
one static is enough, otherwise you risk zapping yourself.
2011-08-27 20:49:03 +00:00
joerg
9c28fb5747
staticfy. __dead.
2011-08-27 17:16:01 +00:00
pgoyette
821775e983
Fix parsing of -A option so that the [/ptn_0_offset] part is optional, as
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described in the man page.
2011-05-08 14:22:16 +00:00
wiz
a26db019aa
Use Nx.
2011-04-25 22:23:47 +00:00
wiz
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
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