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Add section number to .Xr. Use of .Nm. Typo. Add rcsid. Remove unused #includes. Use err(3).
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.\" @(#)disklabel.8 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/19/94
$Id$ -> $FreeBSD$
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
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.Dd March 15, 2003
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.Dt DISKLABEL 8
mdoc(7) police: removed HISTORY info from the .Os call.
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
.Nm disklabel
.Nd read and write disk pack label
.Sh SYNOPSIS
mdoc(7) police: use the new features of the Nm macro.
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.Nm
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.Op Fl r
.Ar disk
mdoc(7) police: use the new features of the Nm macro.
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.Nm
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.Fl w
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Op Fl nr
Teach disklabel(8) about different hardware architectures. This is aimed at creating floppies during cross-releases. For different endianness machines, a tool like bswapfs(8) is necessary to make the generated floppies readable on the target machine. While here, fixed unaligned access on Alphas. Tested on: i386, alpha
2003-03-16 00:11:49 +00:00
.Op Fl m Ar machine
.Ar disk type
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
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.Op Ar packid
mdoc(7) police: use the new features of the Nm macro.
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.Nm
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.Fl e
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Op Fl nr
Teach disklabel(8) about different hardware architectures. This is aimed at creating floppies during cross-releases. For different endianness machines, a tool like bswapfs(8) is necessary to make the generated floppies readable on the target machine. While here, fixed unaligned access on Alphas. Tested on: i386, alpha
2003-03-16 00:11:49 +00:00
.Op Fl m Ar machine
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.Ar disk
mdoc(7) police: use the new features of the Nm macro.
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.Nm
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.Fl R
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Op Fl nr
Teach disklabel(8) about different hardware architectures. This is aimed at creating floppies during cross-releases. For different endianness machines, a tool like bswapfs(8) is necessary to make the generated floppies readable on the target machine. While here, fixed unaligned access on Alphas. Tested on: i386, alpha
2003-03-16 00:11:49 +00:00
.Op Fl m Ar machine
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Ar disk protofile
Avoid use of direct troff requests in mdoc(7) manual pages.
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.Pp
mdoc(7) police: use the new features of the Nm macro.
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.Nm
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.Fl B
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Op Fl b Ar boot
Teach disklabel(8) about different hardware architectures. This is aimed at creating floppies during cross-releases. For different endianness machines, a tool like bswapfs(8) is necessary to make the generated floppies readable on the target machine. While here, fixed unaligned access on Alphas. Tested on: i386, alpha
2003-03-16 00:11:49 +00:00
.Op Fl m Ar machine
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.Ar disk
mdoc(7) police: use the new features of the Nm macro.
2000-11-20 16:52:27 +00:00
.Nm
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Fl w B
Allow for easier configuration when using disklabel. A sample being: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 400M 0 4.2BSD 4096 16384 75 # (Cyl. 0 - 812*) b: 1G * swap c: * * unused e: 204800 * 4.2BSD f: 5g * 4.2BSD g: * * 4.2BSD These patches are the original work of Randell Jesup, and I believe Matt Dillon, with additional work by Warner Losh. Please let me know if I've left someone out. Incorporated into this is the fix for PR bin/22727. This patchset still has style issues and a possible problem on large disks. However, it was a agreed to get these committed before performing major surgery on them. PR: bin/22727 Submitted by: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>
2001-02-25 16:47:44 +00:00
.Op Fl n
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Op Fl b Ar boot
Teach disklabel(8) about different hardware architectures. This is aimed at creating floppies during cross-releases. For different endianness machines, a tool like bswapfs(8) is necessary to make the generated floppies readable on the target machine. While here, fixed unaligned access on Alphas. Tested on: i386, alpha
2003-03-16 00:11:49 +00:00
.Op Fl m Ar machine
.Ar disk type
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Op Ar packid
mdoc(7) police: use the new features of the Nm macro.
2000-11-20 16:52:27 +00:00
.Nm
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Fl R B
Allow for easier configuration when using disklabel. A sample being: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 400M 0 4.2BSD 4096 16384 75 # (Cyl. 0 - 812*) b: 1G * swap c: * * unused e: 204800 * 4.2BSD f: 5g * 4.2BSD g: * * 4.2BSD These patches are the original work of Randell Jesup, and I believe Matt Dillon, with additional work by Warner Losh. Please let me know if I've left someone out. Incorporated into this is the fix for PR bin/22727. This patchset still has style issues and a possible problem on large disks. However, it was a agreed to get these committed before performing major surgery on them. PR: bin/22727 Submitted by: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>
2001-02-25 16:47:44 +00:00
.Op Fl n
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Op Fl b Ar boot
Teach disklabel(8) about different hardware architectures. This is aimed at creating floppies during cross-releases. For different endianness machines, a tool like bswapfs(8) is necessary to make the generated floppies readable on the target machine. While here, fixed unaligned access on Alphas. Tested on: i386, alpha
2003-03-16 00:11:49 +00:00
.Op Fl m Ar machine
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Ar disk protofile
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
The .Nm utility
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The
.Nm
utility
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
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installs, examines or modifies the label on a disk drive or pack.
When writing
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
the label, it can be used to change the drive identification, the disk
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
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partitions on the drive, or to replace a damaged label.
There are several forms
of the command that read (display), install, or edit the label on a disk.
In addition,
Add section number to .Xr. Use of .Nm. Typo. Add rcsid. Remove unused #includes. Use err(3).
1998-06-04 06:49:13 +00:00
.Nm
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
can install bootstrap code.
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Ss Raw or In-Core Label
disklabel(8) manual page: --change "-s newboot" to "-s newboot2" in an example --Fixed spelling --Fixed some confusion between slice/parition/primary partition and other things. PR: 35947 and 35951 Noticed by: Gary W. Swearingen <swear@blarg.net> Reviewed by: keramida Thanks to: grog MFC after: 2 days
2002-04-15 22:24:34 +00:00
The disk label resides close to or at the beginning of each disk slice.
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
For faster access, the kernel maintains a copy in core at all times.
By default, most
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
.Nm
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
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access the in-core copy of the label.
To access the raw (on-disk) copy, use the
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
.Fl r
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
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option.
This option allows a label to be installed on a disk without kernel
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
support for a label, such as when labels are first installed on a system; it
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
must be used when first installing a label on a disk.
The specific effect of
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.Fl r
is described under each command.
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Ss Disk Device Name
Remove whitespace at EOL.
2001-07-15 07:53:42 +00:00
All
mdoc(7) police: use the new features of the Nm macro.
2000-11-20 16:52:27 +00:00
.Nm
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
forms require a disk device name, which should always be the raw
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
device name representing the disk or slice.
For example,
Add support for virgin disklabels Submitted by: dillon
2000-10-31 07:07:39 +00:00
.Pa da0
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
represents the entire disk regardless of any
.Tn DOS
partitioning,
Add support for virgin disklabels Submitted by: dillon
2000-10-31 07:07:39 +00:00
and
.Pa da0s1
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
represents a slice.
Some devices, most notably
.Xr ccd 4 ,
Add support for virgin disklabels Submitted by: dillon
2000-10-31 07:07:39 +00:00
require that the
Avoid use of direct troff requests in mdoc(7) manual pages.
2000-11-10 17:46:15 +00:00
.Dq whole-disk
(or
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
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.Ql c )
partition be specified.
For example,
Add support for virgin disklabels Submitted by: dillon
2000-10-31 07:07:39 +00:00
.Pa ccd0c .
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
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When specifying the device,
the
Add support for virgin disklabels Submitted by: dillon
2000-10-31 07:07:39 +00:00
.Pa /dev/
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
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path prefix may be omitted;
the
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
.Nm
The .Nm utility
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utility will automatically prepend it.
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
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.Ss Reading the Disk Label
In the words of the submitter: disklabel(8)'s "Reading the disk label" section starts out "To examine or save the label on a disk drive,...". This is confusing. The given command (disklabel [-r] disk) doesn't save anything (except to standard out, but that should go without saying). It reads as if the command might save something on the disk drive. PR: 32452 Submitted by: Gary W. Swearingen <swear@blarg.net>
2002-01-07 06:45:17 +00:00
To examine the label on a disk drive, use
Remove whitespace at EOL.
2001-07-15 07:53:42 +00:00
.Nm
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
without options:
.Pp
mdoc(7) police: use the new features of the Nm macro.
2000-11-20 16:52:27 +00:00
.Nm
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
.Op Fl r
.Ar disk
.Pp
.Ar disk
represents the raw disk in question, and may be in the form
.Pa da0
or
/dev/r<FOO> => /dev/<FOO>
2000-04-26 11:24:44 +00:00
.Pa /dev/da0c .
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
It will display all of the parameters associated with the drive and its
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
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partition layout.
Unless the
BSD 4.4 Lite sbin Sources Note: XNSrouted and routed NOT imported here, they shall be imported with usr.sbin.
1994-05-26 06:35:07 +00:00
.Fl r
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
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option is given,
BSD 4.4 Lite sbin Sources Note: XNSrouted and routed NOT imported here, they shall be imported with usr.sbin.
1994-05-26 06:35:07 +00:00
the kernel's in-core copy of the label is displayed;
if the disk has no label, or the partition types on the disk are incorrect,
the kernel may have constructed or modified the label.
If the
.Fl r
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
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option is given,
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
.Nm
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
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reads the label from the raw disk and displays it.
Both versions are usually
Add support for virgin disklabels Submitted by: dillon
2000-10-31 07:07:39 +00:00
identical except in the case where a label has not yet been initialized or
is corrupt.
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
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.Ss Writing a Standard Label
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
To write a standard label, use the form
BSD 4.4 Lite sbin Sources Note: XNSrouted and routed NOT imported here, they shall be imported with usr.sbin.
1994-05-26 06:35:07 +00:00
.Pp
mdoc(7) police: use the new features of the Nm macro.
2000-11-20 16:52:27 +00:00
.Nm
BSD 4.4 Lite sbin Sources Note: XNSrouted and routed NOT imported here, they shall be imported with usr.sbin.
1994-05-26 06:35:07 +00:00
.Fl w
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Op Fl nr
Teach disklabel(8) about different hardware architectures. This is aimed at creating floppies during cross-releases. For different endianness machines, a tool like bswapfs(8) is necessary to make the generated floppies readable on the target machine. While here, fixed unaligned access on Alphas. Tested on: i386, alpha
2003-03-16 00:11:49 +00:00
.Op Fl m Ar machine
.Ar disk type
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
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.Op Ar packid
Add support for virgin disklabels Submitted by: dillon
2000-10-31 07:07:39 +00:00
.Pp
BSD 4.4 Lite sbin Sources Note: XNSrouted and routed NOT imported here, they shall be imported with usr.sbin.
1994-05-26 06:35:07 +00:00
The required arguments to
Add section number to .Xr. Use of .Nm. Typo. Add rcsid. Remove unused #includes. Use err(3).
1998-06-04 06:49:13 +00:00
.Nm
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
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are the drive to be labeled, and the drive type as described in the
.Xr disktab 5
file.
The drive parameters and partitions are taken from that file.
If different disks of the same physical type are to have different partitions,
it will be necessary to have separate
mdoc(7) police: split punctuation characters + misc fixes.
2001-02-01 16:38:02 +00:00
.Xr disktab 5
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
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entries describing each, or to edit
the label after installation as described below.
The optional argument is a
pack identification string, up to 16 characters long.
The
.Ar packid
must be quoted if it contains blanks.
Allow for easier configuration when using disklabel. A sample being: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 400M 0 4.2BSD 4096 16384 75 # (Cyl. 0 - 812*) b: 1G * swap c: * * unused e: 204800 * 4.2BSD f: 5g * 4.2BSD g: * * 4.2BSD These patches are the original work of Randell Jesup, and I believe Matt Dillon, with additional work by Warner Losh. Please let me know if I've left someone out. Incorporated into this is the fix for PR bin/22727. This patchset still has style issues and a possible problem on large disks. However, it was a agreed to get these committed before performing major surgery on them. PR: bin/22727 Submitted by: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>
2001-02-25 16:47:44 +00:00
.Pp
Teach disklabel(8) about different hardware architectures. This is aimed at creating floppies during cross-releases. For different endianness machines, a tool like bswapfs(8) is necessary to make the generated floppies readable on the target machine. While here, fixed unaligned access on Alphas. Tested on: i386, alpha
2003-03-16 00:11:49 +00:00
If the
.Fl m
option is given, then label will be written so that
it is understood by the target
.Ar machine ;
defaults to the current hardware architecture.
.Pp
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
If
Allow for easier configuration when using disklabel. A sample being: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 400M 0 4.2BSD 4096 16384 75 # (Cyl. 0 - 812*) b: 1G * swap c: * * unused e: 204800 * 4.2BSD f: 5g * 4.2BSD g: * * 4.2BSD These patches are the original work of Randell Jesup, and I believe Matt Dillon, with additional work by Warner Losh. Please let me know if I've left someone out. Incorporated into this is the fix for PR bin/22727. This patchset still has style issues and a possible problem on large disks. However, it was a agreed to get these committed before performing major surgery on them. PR: bin/22727 Submitted by: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>
2001-02-25 16:47:44 +00:00
.Fl n
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
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is used, no data will be written to the device, and instead the
disk label that would have been written will be printed to standard output.
Allow for easier configuration when using disklabel. A sample being: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 400M 0 4.2BSD 4096 16384 75 # (Cyl. 0 - 812*) b: 1G * swap c: * * unused e: 204800 * 4.2BSD f: 5g * 4.2BSD g: * * 4.2BSD These patches are the original work of Randell Jesup, and I believe Matt Dillon, with additional work by Warner Losh. Please let me know if I've left someone out. Incorporated into this is the fix for PR bin/22727. This patchset still has style issues and a possible problem on large disks. However, it was a agreed to get these committed before performing major surgery on them. PR: bin/22727 Submitted by: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>
2001-02-25 16:47:44 +00:00
.Pp
If the
BSD 4.4 Lite sbin Sources Note: XNSrouted and routed NOT imported here, they shall be imported with usr.sbin.
1994-05-26 06:35:07 +00:00
.Fl r
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
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option is given, the disk sectors containing the label and bootstrap
BSD 4.4 Lite sbin Sources Note: XNSrouted and routed NOT imported here, they shall be imported with usr.sbin.
1994-05-26 06:35:07 +00:00
will be written directly.
A side-effect of this is that any existing bootstrap code will be overwritten
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
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and the disk rendered unbootable.
See the boot options below for a method of
Teach disklabel(8) about different hardware architectures. This is aimed at creating floppies during cross-releases. For different endianness machines, a tool like bswapfs(8) is necessary to make the generated floppies readable on the target machine. While here, fixed unaligned access on Alphas. Tested on: i386, alpha
2003-03-16 00:11:49 +00:00
writing the and the bootstrap at the same time.
BSD 4.4 Lite sbin Sources Note: XNSrouted and routed NOT imported here, they shall be imported with usr.sbin.
1994-05-26 06:35:07 +00:00
If
.Fl r
is not specified,
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
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the existing label will be updated via the in-core copy, and any bootstrap
BSD 4.4 Lite sbin Sources Note: XNSrouted and routed NOT imported here, they shall be imported with usr.sbin.
1994-05-26 06:35:07 +00:00
code will be unaffected.
If the disk does not already have a label, the
.Fl r
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
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option must be used.
BSD 4.4 Lite sbin Sources Note: XNSrouted and routed NOT imported here, they shall be imported with usr.sbin.
1994-05-26 06:35:07 +00:00
In either case, the kernel's in-core label is replaced.
.Pp
Finally implement the "auto" disktype. It attempts to get all the required information from the driver, and produce a virgin disklabel for it. The latter might be further edited with `disklabel -e' to satisfy the user's need. The magic sequence is: disklabel -r -w sdX auto disklabel -e sdX
1996-01-22 01:01:15 +00:00
For a virgin disk that is not known to
.Xr disktab 5 ,
Teach disklabel(8) about different hardware architectures. This is aimed at creating floppies during cross-releases. For different endianness machines, a tool like bswapfs(8) is necessary to make the generated floppies readable on the target machine. While here, fixed unaligned access on Alphas. Tested on: i386, alpha
2003-03-16 00:11:49 +00:00
.Ar type
Finally implement the "auto" disktype. It attempts to get all the required information from the driver, and produce a virgin disklabel for it. The latter might be further edited with `disklabel -e' to satisfy the user's need. The magic sequence is: disklabel -r -w sdX auto disklabel -e sdX
1996-01-22 01:01:15 +00:00
can be specified as
Properly mark "auto" as a keyword.
2003-03-14 09:38:54 +00:00
.Cm auto .
Finally implement the "auto" disktype. It attempts to get all the required information from the driver, and produce a virgin disklabel for it. The latter might be further edited with `disklabel -e' to satisfy the user's need. The magic sequence is: disklabel -r -w sdX auto disklabel -e sdX
1996-01-22 01:01:15 +00:00
In this case, the driver is requested to produce a virgin label for the
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
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disk.
This might or might not be successful, depending on whether the
Finally implement the "auto" disktype. It attempts to get all the required information from the driver, and produce a virgin disklabel for it. The latter might be further edited with `disklabel -e' to satisfy the user's need. The magic sequence is: disklabel -r -w sdX auto disklabel -e sdX
1996-01-22 01:01:15 +00:00
driver for the disk is able to get the required data without reading
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
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anything from the disk at all.
It will likely succeed for all
.Tn SCSI
disks, most
.Tn IDE
disks, and
.Cm vnode
type memory disks
.Pq Xr md 4 .
Writing a label to the
Finally implement the "auto" disktype. It attempts to get all the required information from the driver, and produce a virgin disklabel for it. The latter might be further edited with `disklabel -e' to satisfy the user's need. The magic sequence is: disklabel -r -w sdX auto disklabel -e sdX
1996-01-22 01:01:15 +00:00
disk is the only supported operation, and the
.Ar disk
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
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itself must be provided as the canonical name, i.e., not as a full
Finally implement the "auto" disktype. It attempts to get all the required information from the driver, and produce a virgin disklabel for it. The latter might be further edited with `disklabel -e' to satisfy the user's need. The magic sequence is: disklabel -r -w sdX auto disklabel -e sdX
1996-01-22 01:01:15 +00:00
path name.
Add support for virgin disklabels Submitted by: dillon
2000-10-31 07:07:39 +00:00
.Pp
Allow for easier configuration when using disklabel. A sample being: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 400M 0 4.2BSD 4096 16384 75 # (Cyl. 0 - 812*) b: 1G * swap c: * * unused e: 204800 * 4.2BSD f: 5g * 4.2BSD g: * * 4.2BSD These patches are the original work of Randell Jesup, and I believe Matt Dillon, with additional work by Warner Losh. Please let me know if I've left someone out. Incorporated into this is the fix for PR bin/22727. This patchset still has style issues and a possible problem on large disks. However, it was a agreed to get these committed before performing major surgery on them. PR: bin/22727 Submitted by: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>
2001-02-25 16:47:44 +00:00
For most harddisks, a label based on percentages for most partitions (and
mdoc(7) police: misc formatting fixes. (This page still needs a lot of work.)
2001-03-05 15:33:54 +00:00
one partition with a size of
.Ql * )
will produce a reasonable configuration.
Allow for easier configuration when using disklabel. A sample being: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 400M 0 4.2BSD 4096 16384 75 # (Cyl. 0 - 812*) b: 1G * swap c: * * unused e: 204800 * 4.2BSD f: 5g * 4.2BSD g: * * 4.2BSD These patches are the original work of Randell Jesup, and I believe Matt Dillon, with additional work by Warner Losh. Please let me know if I've left someone out. Incorporated into this is the fix for PR bin/22727. This patchset still has style issues and a possible problem on large disks. However, it was a agreed to get these committed before performing major surgery on them. PR: bin/22727 Submitted by: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>
2001-02-25 16:47:44 +00:00
.Pp
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
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PC-based systems have special requirements in order for the
.Tn BIOS
to properly recognize a
Use Fx macro wherever possible.
2000-11-14 11:20:58 +00:00
.Fx
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
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disk label.
Older systems may require what is known as a
.Dq dangerously-dedicated
disk label, which creates a fake
.Tn DOS
partition to work around problems older
.Tn BIOS Ns es
have with modern disk geometries.
On newer systems, a normal
.Tn DOS
partition should generally be created using
.Xr fdisk 8 ,
and then a
Use Fx macro wherever possible.
2000-11-14 11:20:58 +00:00
.Fx
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
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disk label within that slice.
This is described later on in this page.
Add support for virgin disklabels Submitted by: dillon
2000-10-31 07:07:39 +00:00
.Pp
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
Installing a new disk label does not in of itself allow the system to boot
a kernel using that label.
Boot blocks must also be installed, which is
Add support for virgin disklabels Submitted by: dillon
2000-10-31 07:07:39 +00:00
described later on in this manual page.
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Ss Editing an Existing Disk Label
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
To edit an existing disk label, use the form
.Pp
mdoc(7) police: use the new features of the Nm macro.
2000-11-20 16:52:27 +00:00
.Nm
BSD 4.4 Lite sbin Sources Note: XNSrouted and routed NOT imported here, they shall be imported with usr.sbin.
1994-05-26 06:35:07 +00:00
.Fl e
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Op Fl nr
Teach disklabel(8) about different hardware architectures. This is aimed at creating floppies during cross-releases. For different endianness machines, a tool like bswapfs(8) is necessary to make the generated floppies readable on the target machine. While here, fixed unaligned access on Alphas. Tested on: i386, alpha
2003-03-16 00:11:49 +00:00
.Op Fl m Ar machine
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
.Ar disk
.Pp
This command reads the label from the in-core kernel copy, or directly from the
disk if the
BSD 4.4 Lite sbin Sources Note: XNSrouted and routed NOT imported here, they shall be imported with usr.sbin.
1994-05-26 06:35:07 +00:00
.Fl r
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
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option is also specified.
The label is written to a file in
.Tn ASCII
format, and then supplied to an editor for changes.
If no editor is specified in the
BSD 4.4 Lite sbin Sources Note: XNSrouted and routed NOT imported here, they shall be imported with usr.sbin.
1994-05-26 06:35:07 +00:00
.Ev EDITOR
environment variable,
.Xr vi 1
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
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is used.
When the editor terminates, the label file is used to rewrite the disk label.
Existing bootstrap code is unchanged regardless of whether
BSD 4.4 Lite sbin Sources Note: XNSrouted and routed NOT imported here, they shall be imported with usr.sbin.
1994-05-26 06:35:07 +00:00
.Fl r
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
was specified.
Teach disklabel(8) about different hardware architectures. This is aimed at creating floppies during cross-releases. For different endianness machines, a tool like bswapfs(8) is necessary to make the generated floppies readable on the target machine. While here, fixed unaligned access on Alphas. Tested on: i386, alpha
2003-03-16 00:11:49 +00:00
.Pp
If the
.Fl m
option is given, then the label will be written so that
it is understood by the target
.Ar machine ;
defaults to the current hardware architecture.
.Pp
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
If
Allow for easier configuration when using disklabel. A sample being: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 400M 0 4.2BSD 4096 16384 75 # (Cyl. 0 - 812*) b: 1G * swap c: * * unused e: 204800 * 4.2BSD f: 5g * 4.2BSD g: * * 4.2BSD These patches are the original work of Randell Jesup, and I believe Matt Dillon, with additional work by Warner Losh. Please let me know if I've left someone out. Incorporated into this is the fix for PR bin/22727. This patchset still has style issues and a possible problem on large disks. However, it was a agreed to get these committed before performing major surgery on them. PR: bin/22727 Submitted by: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>
2001-02-25 16:47:44 +00:00
.Fl n
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
is used, no data will be written to the device, and instead the
disk label that would have been written will be printed to standard output.
This is
Allow for easier configuration when using disklabel. A sample being: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 400M 0 4.2BSD 4096 16384 75 # (Cyl. 0 - 812*) b: 1G * swap c: * * unused e: 204800 * 4.2BSD f: 5g * 4.2BSD g: * * 4.2BSD These patches are the original work of Randell Jesup, and I believe Matt Dillon, with additional work by Warner Losh. Please let me know if I've left someone out. Incorporated into this is the fix for PR bin/22727. This patchset still has style issues and a possible problem on large disks. However, it was a agreed to get these committed before performing major surgery on them. PR: bin/22727 Submitted by: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>
2001-02-25 16:47:44 +00:00
useful to see how a partitioning scheme will work out for a specific disk.
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Ss Restoring a Disk Label From a File
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
To restore a disk label from a file, use the form
BSD 4.4 Lite sbin Sources Note: XNSrouted and routed NOT imported here, they shall be imported with usr.sbin.
1994-05-26 06:35:07 +00:00
.Pp
mdoc(7) police: use the new features of the Nm macro.
2000-11-20 16:52:27 +00:00
.Nm
BSD 4.4 Lite sbin Sources Note: XNSrouted and routed NOT imported here, they shall be imported with usr.sbin.
1994-05-26 06:35:07 +00:00
.Fl R
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Op Fl nr
Teach disklabel(8) about different hardware architectures. This is aimed at creating floppies during cross-releases. For different endianness machines, a tool like bswapfs(8) is necessary to make the generated floppies readable on the target machine. While here, fixed unaligned access on Alphas. Tested on: i386, alpha
2003-03-16 00:11:49 +00:00
.Op Fl m Ar machine
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Ar disk protofile
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
.Pp
Add section number to .Xr. Use of .Nm. Typo. Add rcsid. Remove unused #includes. Use err(3).
1998-06-04 06:49:13 +00:00
.Nm
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
is capable of restoring a disk label that was previously saved in a file in
.Tn ASCII
format.
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
The prototype file used to create the label should be in the same format as that
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
produced when reading or editing a label.
Comments are delimited by
.Ql #
and newline.
As when writing a new label, any existing bootstrap code will be
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
clobbered if
BSD 4.4 Lite sbin Sources Note: XNSrouted and routed NOT imported here, they shall be imported with usr.sbin.
1994-05-26 06:35:07 +00:00
.Fl r
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
is specified, and will be unaffected otherwise.
See the boot options below for a
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
method of restoring the label and writing the bootstrap at the same time.
Teach disklabel(8) about different hardware architectures. This is aimed at creating floppies during cross-releases. For different endianness machines, a tool like bswapfs(8) is necessary to make the generated floppies readable on the target machine. While here, fixed unaligned access on Alphas. Tested on: i386, alpha
2003-03-16 00:11:49 +00:00
.Pp
If the
.Fl m
option is given, then the label will be written so that
it is understood by the target
.Ar machine ;
defaults to the current hardware architecture.
.Pp
Allow for easier configuration when using disklabel. A sample being: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 400M 0 4.2BSD 4096 16384 75 # (Cyl. 0 - 812*) b: 1G * swap c: * * unused e: 204800 * 4.2BSD f: 5g * 4.2BSD g: * * 4.2BSD These patches are the original work of Randell Jesup, and I believe Matt Dillon, with additional work by Warner Losh. Please let me know if I've left someone out. Incorporated into this is the fix for PR bin/22727. This patchset still has style issues and a possible problem on large disks. However, it was a agreed to get these committed before performing major surgery on them. PR: bin/22727 Submitted by: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>
2001-02-25 16:47:44 +00:00
If
.Fl n
is used, no data will be written to the device, and instead the
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
disk label that would have been written will be printed to standard output.
This is
Allow for easier configuration when using disklabel. A sample being: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 400M 0 4.2BSD 4096 16384 75 # (Cyl. 0 - 812*) b: 1G * swap c: * * unused e: 204800 * 4.2BSD f: 5g * 4.2BSD g: * * 4.2BSD These patches are the original work of Randell Jesup, and I believe Matt Dillon, with additional work by Warner Losh. Please let me know if I've left someone out. Incorporated into this is the fix for PR bin/22727. This patchset still has style issues and a possible problem on large disks. However, it was a agreed to get these committed before performing major surgery on them. PR: bin/22727 Submitted by: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>
2001-02-25 16:47:44 +00:00
useful to see how a partitioning scheme will work out for a specific disk.
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Ss Installing Bootstraps
BSD 4.4 Lite sbin Sources Note: XNSrouted and routed NOT imported here, they shall be imported with usr.sbin.
1994-05-26 06:35:07 +00:00
The final three forms of
Add section number to .Xr. Use of .Nm. Typo. Add rcsid. Remove unused #includes. Use err(3).
1998-06-04 06:49:13 +00:00
.Nm
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
are used to install bootstrap code.
If a
Avoid use of direct troff requests in mdoc(7) manual pages.
2000-11-10 17:46:15 +00:00
.Dq dangerously-dedicated
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
disk is created for compatibility with older PC systems,
the raw disk name such as
.Pa da0
should be specified.
If an existing slice should be labeled,
the slice name such as
.Pa da0s1
should be specified,
and to make it bootable,
.Tn MBR
on the base disk should probably be updated; see
.Xr fdisk 8 .
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
.Pp
mdoc(7) police: use the new features of the Nm macro.
2000-11-20 16:52:27 +00:00
.Nm
BSD 4.4 Lite sbin Sources Note: XNSrouted and routed NOT imported here, they shall be imported with usr.sbin.
1994-05-26 06:35:07 +00:00
.Fl B
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Op Fl b Ar boot
Teach disklabel(8) about different hardware architectures. This is aimed at creating floppies during cross-releases. For different endianness machines, a tool like bswapfs(8) is necessary to make the generated floppies readable on the target machine. While here, fixed unaligned access on Alphas. Tested on: i386, alpha
2003-03-16 00:11:49 +00:00
.Op Fl m Ar machine
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
.Ar disk
.Pp
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
This form installs the bootstrap only.
It does not change the disk label.
Never use this command on a base disk, such as
.Pa da0 ,
unless the intent is to create a
Avoid use of direct troff requests in mdoc(7) manual pages.
2000-11-10 17:46:15 +00:00
.Dq dangerously-dedicated
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
disk.
Remove whitespace at EOL.
2001-07-15 07:53:42 +00:00
This command is typically run on a slice such as
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Pa da0s1 .
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
.Pp
Teach disklabel(8) about different hardware architectures. This is aimed at creating floppies during cross-releases. For different endianness machines, a tool like bswapfs(8) is necessary to make the generated floppies readable on the target machine. While here, fixed unaligned access on Alphas. Tested on: i386, alpha
2003-03-16 00:11:49 +00:00
The
.Fl m
option should be specified if the label was
created for a different hardware architecture,
.Ar machine .
.Pp
mdoc(7) police: use the new features of the Nm macro.
2000-11-20 16:52:27 +00:00
.Nm
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Fl w B
Allow for easier configuration when using disklabel. A sample being: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 400M 0 4.2BSD 4096 16384 75 # (Cyl. 0 - 812*) b: 1G * swap c: * * unused e: 204800 * 4.2BSD f: 5g * 4.2BSD g: * * 4.2BSD These patches are the original work of Randell Jesup, and I believe Matt Dillon, with additional work by Warner Losh. Please let me know if I've left someone out. Incorporated into this is the fix for PR bin/22727. This patchset still has style issues and a possible problem on large disks. However, it was a agreed to get these committed before performing major surgery on them. PR: bin/22727 Submitted by: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>
2001-02-25 16:47:44 +00:00
.Op Fl n
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Op Fl b Ar boot
Teach disklabel(8) about different hardware architectures. This is aimed at creating floppies during cross-releases. For different endianness machines, a tool like bswapfs(8) is necessary to make the generated floppies readable on the target machine. While here, fixed unaligned access on Alphas. Tested on: i386, alpha
2003-03-16 00:11:49 +00:00
.Op Fl m Ar machine
.Ar disk type
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Op Ar packid
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
.Pp
Avoid use of direct troff requests in mdoc(7) manual pages.
2000-11-10 17:46:15 +00:00
This form corresponds to the
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Dq "write label"
Remove whitespace at EOL.
2001-07-15 07:53:42 +00:00
command described above.
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
In addition to writing a new volume label, it also installs the bootstrap.
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
If run on a base disk, this command will create a
Avoid use of direct troff requests in mdoc(7) manual pages.
2000-11-10 17:46:15 +00:00
.Dq dangerously-dedicated
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
label.
This command is normally run on a slice rather than a base disk.
Teach disklabel(8) about different hardware architectures. This is aimed at creating floppies during cross-releases. For different endianness machines, a tool like bswapfs(8) is necessary to make the generated floppies readable on the target machine. While here, fixed unaligned access on Alphas. Tested on: i386, alpha
2003-03-16 00:11:49 +00:00
.Pp
If the
.Fl m
option is given, then the label and bootstrap will be written so that
they are understood by the target
.Ar machine ;
defaults to the current hardware architecture.
.Pp
Allow for easier configuration when using disklabel. A sample being: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 400M 0 4.2BSD 4096 16384 75 # (Cyl. 0 - 812*) b: 1G * swap c: * * unused e: 204800 * 4.2BSD f: 5g * 4.2BSD g: * * 4.2BSD These patches are the original work of Randell Jesup, and I believe Matt Dillon, with additional work by Warner Losh. Please let me know if I've left someone out. Incorporated into this is the fix for PR bin/22727. This patchset still has style issues and a possible problem on large disks. However, it was a agreed to get these committed before performing major surgery on them. PR: bin/22727 Submitted by: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>
2001-02-25 16:47:44 +00:00
If
.Fl n
is used, no data will be written to the device, and instead the
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
disk label that would have been written will be printed to standard output.
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
.Pp
mdoc(7) police: use the new features of the Nm macro.
2000-11-20 16:52:27 +00:00
.Nm
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Fl R B
Allow for easier configuration when using disklabel. A sample being: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 400M 0 4.2BSD 4096 16384 75 # (Cyl. 0 - 812*) b: 1G * swap c: * * unused e: 204800 * 4.2BSD f: 5g * 4.2BSD g: * * 4.2BSD These patches are the original work of Randell Jesup, and I believe Matt Dillon, with additional work by Warner Losh. Please let me know if I've left someone out. Incorporated into this is the fix for PR bin/22727. This patchset still has style issues and a possible problem on large disks. However, it was a agreed to get these committed before performing major surgery on them. PR: bin/22727 Submitted by: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>
2001-02-25 16:47:44 +00:00
.Op Fl n
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Op Fl b Ar boot
Teach disklabel(8) about different hardware architectures. This is aimed at creating floppies during cross-releases. For different endianness machines, a tool like bswapfs(8) is necessary to make the generated floppies readable on the target machine. While here, fixed unaligned access on Alphas. Tested on: i386, alpha
2003-03-16 00:11:49 +00:00
.Op Fl m Ar machine
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Ar disk protofile
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
.Pp
Avoid use of direct troff requests in mdoc(7) manual pages.
2000-11-10 17:46:15 +00:00
This form corresponds to the
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Dq "restore label"
Remove whitespace at EOL.
2001-07-15 07:53:42 +00:00
command described above.
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
In addition to restoring the volume label, it also installs the bootstrap.
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
If run on a base disk, this command will create a
Avoid use of direct troff requests in mdoc(7) manual pages.
2000-11-10 17:46:15 +00:00
.Dq dangerously-dedicated
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
label.
This command is normally run on a slice rather than a base disk.
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
.Pp
The bootstrap commands always access the disk directly, so it is not necessary
to specify the
.Fl r
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
option.
Teach disklabel(8) about different hardware architectures. This is aimed at creating floppies during cross-releases. For different endianness machines, a tool like bswapfs(8) is necessary to make the generated floppies readable on the target machine. While here, fixed unaligned access on Alphas. Tested on: i386, alpha
2003-03-16 00:11:49 +00:00
.Pp
If the
.Fl m
option is given, then the label and bootstrap will be written so that
they are understood by the target
.Ar machine ;
defaults to the current hardware architecture.
.Pp
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
If
Allow for easier configuration when using disklabel. A sample being: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 400M 0 4.2BSD 4096 16384 75 # (Cyl. 0 - 812*) b: 1G * swap c: * * unused e: 204800 * 4.2BSD f: 5g * 4.2BSD g: * * 4.2BSD These patches are the original work of Randell Jesup, and I believe Matt Dillon, with additional work by Warner Losh. Please let me know if I've left someone out. Incorporated into this is the fix for PR bin/22727. This patchset still has style issues and a possible problem on large disks. However, it was a agreed to get these committed before performing major surgery on them. PR: bin/22727 Submitted by: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>
2001-02-25 16:47:44 +00:00
.Fl n
is used, no data will be written to the device, and instead the
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
disk label that would have been written will be printed to standard output.
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
.Pp
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
The bootstrap code is comprised of two boot programs compiled into a single
Deal with vestiges of d_boot[01].
2003-02-23 01:48:42 +00:00
.Pa /boot/boot
image.
An alternative boot image may be specified with the
BSD 4.4 Lite sbin Sources Note: XNSrouted and routed NOT imported here, they shall be imported with usr.sbin.
1994-05-26 06:35:07 +00:00
.Fl b
Deal with vestiges of d_boot[01].
2003-02-23 01:48:42 +00:00
option.
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Ss Initializing/Formatting a Bootable Disk From Scratch
To initialize a disk from scratch, the following sequence is recommended.
Add support for virgin disklabels Submitted by: dillon
2000-10-31 07:07:39 +00:00
Please note that this will wipe everything that was previously on the disk,
Use Fx macro wherever possible.
2000-11-14 11:20:58 +00:00
including any
.No non- Ns Fx
slices.
Add support for virgin disklabels Submitted by: dillon
2000-10-31 07:07:39 +00:00
.Bl -enum
.It
Use
disklabel(8) manual page: --change "-s newboot" to "-s newboot2" in an example --Fixed spelling --Fixed some confusion between slice/parition/primary partition and other things. PR: 35947 and 35951 Noticed by: Gary W. Swearingen <swear@blarg.net> Reviewed by: keramida Thanks to: grog MFC after: 2 days
2002-04-15 22:24:34 +00:00
.Xr fdisk 8
to initialize the hard disk, and create a slice table, referred to
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
as the
.Dq "partition table"
in
Small mdoc fix
2003-03-29 02:09:02 +00:00
.Tn DOS .
Add support for virgin disklabels Submitted by: dillon
2000-10-31 07:07:39 +00:00
.It
Use
mdoc(7) police: Deal with self-xrefs.
2002-12-24 13:41:48 +00:00
.Nm
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
to define partitions on
.Fx
slices created in the previous step.
Add support for virgin disklabels Submitted by: dillon
2000-10-31 07:07:39 +00:00
.It
disklabel(8) manual page: --change "-s newboot" to "-s newboot2" in an example --Fixed spelling --Fixed some confusion between slice/parition/primary partition and other things. PR: 35947 and 35951 Noticed by: Gary W. Swearingen <swear@blarg.net> Reviewed by: keramida Thanks to: grog MFC after: 2 days
2002-04-15 22:24:34 +00:00
Finally use
.Xr newfs 8
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
to create file systems on new partitions.
.El
.Pp
disklabel(8) manual page: --change "-s newboot" to "-s newboot2" in an example --Fixed spelling --Fixed some confusion between slice/parition/primary partition and other things. PR: 35947 and 35951 Noticed by: Gary W. Swearingen <swear@blarg.net> Reviewed by: keramida Thanks to: grog MFC after: 2 days
2002-04-15 22:24:34 +00:00
A typical partitioning scheme would be to have an
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Ql a
Remove whitespace at EOL.
2001-07-15 07:53:42 +00:00
partition
s/filesystem/file system/g as discussed on -developers
2002-08-21 18:11:48 +00:00
of approximately 128MB to hold the root file system, a
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Ql b
Avoid use of direct troff requests in mdoc(7) manual pages.
2000-11-10 17:46:15 +00:00
partition for
swap, a
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Ql d
partition for
.Pa /var
(usually 128MB), an
.Ql e
Avoid use of direct troff requests in mdoc(7) manual pages.
2000-11-10 17:46:15 +00:00
partition
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
for
.Pa /var/tmp
(usually 128MB), an
.Ql f
partition for
.Pa /usr
(usually around 2GB),
Avoid use of direct troff requests in mdoc(7) manual pages.
2000-11-10 17:46:15 +00:00
and finally a
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Ql g
partition for
.Pa /home
(usually all remaining space).
Add support for virgin disklabels Submitted by: dillon
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Your mileage may vary.
.Pp
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
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.Nm fdisk Fl BI Pa da0
Add support for virgin disklabels Submitted by: dillon
2000-10-31 07:07:39 +00:00
.Pp
mdoc(7) police: use the new features of the Nm macro.
2000-11-20 16:52:27 +00:00
.Nm
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Fl w B
.Pa da0s1
Properly mark "auto" as a keyword.
2003-03-14 09:38:54 +00:00
.Cm auto
Add support for virgin disklabels Submitted by: dillon
2000-10-31 07:07:39 +00:00
.Pp
mdoc(7) police: use the new features of the Nm macro.
2000-11-20 16:52:27 +00:00
.Nm
Add support for virgin disklabels Submitted by: dillon
2000-10-31 07:07:39 +00:00
.Fl e
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Pa da0s1
BSD 4.4 Lite sbin Sources Note: XNSrouted and routed NOT imported here, they shall be imported with usr.sbin.
1994-05-26 06:35:07 +00:00
.Sh FILES
Deal with vestiges of d_boot[01].
2003-02-23 01:48:42 +00:00
.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /etc/disktab" -compact
.It Pa /boot/boot
Default boot image.
BSD 4.4 Lite sbin Sources Note: XNSrouted and routed NOT imported here, they shall be imported with usr.sbin.
1994-05-26 06:35:07 +00:00
.It Pa /etc/disktab
Deal with vestiges of d_boot[01].
2003-02-23 01:48:42 +00:00
Disk description file.
BSD 4.4 Lite sbin Sources Note: XNSrouted and routed NOT imported here, they shall be imported with usr.sbin.
1994-05-26 06:35:07 +00:00
.El
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
.Sh SAVED FILE FORMAT
The .Nm utility
2002-07-06 19:34:18 +00:00
The
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
.Nm
The .Nm utility
2002-07-06 19:34:18 +00:00
utility
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
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uses an
.Tn ASCII
version of the label when examining, editing, or restoring a disk
label.
The format is:
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
.Bd -literal -offset 4n
/dev/r<FOO> => /dev/<FOO>
2000-04-26 11:24:44 +00:00
# /dev/da1c:
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
type: SCSI
/dev/r<FOO> => /dev/<FOO>
2000-04-26 11:24:44 +00:00
disk: da0s1
Remove whitespace at EOL.
2001-07-15 07:53:42 +00:00
label:
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 51
tracks/cylinder: 19
sectors/cylinder: 969
cylinders: 1211
sectors/unit: 1173930
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0 # milliseconds
track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds
Remove whitespace at EOL.
2001-07-15 07:53:42 +00:00
drivedata: 0
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
8 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
a: 81920 0 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 0 - 84*)
b: 160000 81920 swap # (Cyl. 84* - 218*)
c: 1173930 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 1211*)
h: 962010 211920 vinum # (Cyl. 218*- 1211*)
.Ed
.Pp
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
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Lines starting with a
.Ql #
mark are comments.
Most of the other specifications are no longer used.
The ones which must still be set correctly are:
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
.Pp
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
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.Bl -inset
.It Ar label
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
is an optional label, set by the
.Ar packid
option when writing a label.
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
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.It Ar flags
may be
.Cm removable , ecc
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
or
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Cm badsect .
.Cm removable
Use Fx macro wherever possible.
2000-11-14 11:20:58 +00:00
is set for removable media drives, but no current
.Fx
driver evaluates this
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
flag.
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Cm ecc
Remove whitespace at EOL.
2001-07-15 07:53:42 +00:00
is no longer supported;
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Cm badsect
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
specifies that the drive can perform bad sector remapping.
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
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.It Ar sectors/unit
describes the total size of the disk.
This value must be correct.
.It Ar "the partition table"
is the
mdoc(7) police: misc formatting fixes. (This page still needs a lot of work.)
2001-03-05 15:33:54 +00:00
.Ux
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
partition table, not the
.Tn DOS
partition table described in
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
.Xr fdisk 8 .
.El
.Pp
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
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The partition table can have up to 8 entries.
It contains the following information:
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Ar #
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
The partition identifier is a single letter in the range
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Ql a
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
to
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Ql h .
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
By convention, partition
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Ql c
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
is reserved to describe the entire disk.
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
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.It Ar size
The size of the partition in sectors,
mdoc(7) police: misc formatting fixes. (This page still needs a lot of work.)
2001-03-05 15:33:54 +00:00
.Cm K
Allow for easier configuration when using disklabel. A sample being: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 400M 0 4.2BSD 4096 16384 75 # (Cyl. 0 - 812*) b: 1G * swap c: * * unused e: 204800 * 4.2BSD f: 5g * 4.2BSD g: * * 4.2BSD These patches are the original work of Randell Jesup, and I believe Matt Dillon, with additional work by Warner Losh. Please let me know if I've left someone out. Incorporated into this is the fix for PR bin/22727. This patchset still has style issues and a possible problem on large disks. However, it was a agreed to get these committed before performing major surgery on them. PR: bin/22727 Submitted by: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>
2001-02-25 16:47:44 +00:00
(kilobytes - 1024),
mdoc(7) police: misc formatting fixes. (This page still needs a lot of work.)
2001-03-05 15:33:54 +00:00
.Cm M
Allow for easier configuration when using disklabel. A sample being: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 400M 0 4.2BSD 4096 16384 75 # (Cyl. 0 - 812*) b: 1G * swap c: * * unused e: 204800 * 4.2BSD f: 5g * 4.2BSD g: * * 4.2BSD These patches are the original work of Randell Jesup, and I believe Matt Dillon, with additional work by Warner Losh. Please let me know if I've left someone out. Incorporated into this is the fix for PR bin/22727. This patchset still has style issues and a possible problem on large disks. However, it was a agreed to get these committed before performing major surgery on them. PR: bin/22727 Submitted by: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>
2001-02-25 16:47:44 +00:00
(megabytes - 1024*1024),
mdoc(7) police: misc formatting fixes. (This page still needs a lot of work.)
2001-03-05 15:33:54 +00:00
.Cm G
Allow for easier configuration when using disklabel. A sample being: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 400M 0 4.2BSD 4096 16384 75 # (Cyl. 0 - 812*) b: 1G * swap c: * * unused e: 204800 * 4.2BSD f: 5g * 4.2BSD g: * * 4.2BSD These patches are the original work of Randell Jesup, and I believe Matt Dillon, with additional work by Warner Losh. Please let me know if I've left someone out. Incorporated into this is the fix for PR bin/22727. This patchset still has style issues and a possible problem on large disks. However, it was a agreed to get these committed before performing major surgery on them. PR: bin/22727 Submitted by: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>
2001-02-25 16:47:44 +00:00
(gigabytes - 1024*1024*1024),
mdoc(7) police: misc formatting fixes. (This page still needs a lot of work.)
2001-03-05 15:33:54 +00:00
.Cm %
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
(percentage of free space
.Em after
removing any fixed-size partitions other than partition
.Ql c ) ,
mdoc(7) police: misc formatting fixes. (This page still needs a lot of work.)
2001-03-05 15:33:54 +00:00
or
.Cm *
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
(all remaining free space
.Em after
fixed-size and percentage partitions).
For partition
.Ql c ,
mdoc(7) police: misc formatting fixes. (This page still needs a lot of work.)
2001-03-05 15:33:54 +00:00
a size of
.Cm *
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
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indicates the entire disk.
Lowercase versions of
mdoc(7) police: misc formatting fixes. (This page still needs a lot of work.)
2001-03-05 15:33:54 +00:00
.Cm K , M ,
and
.Cm G
Allow for easier configuration when using disklabel. A sample being: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 400M 0 4.2BSD 4096 16384 75 # (Cyl. 0 - 812*) b: 1G * swap c: * * unused e: 204800 * 4.2BSD f: 5g * 4.2BSD g: * * 4.2BSD These patches are the original work of Randell Jesup, and I believe Matt Dillon, with additional work by Warner Losh. Please let me know if I've left someone out. Incorporated into this is the fix for PR bin/22727. This patchset still has style issues and a possible problem on large disks. However, it was a agreed to get these committed before performing major surgery on them. PR: bin/22727 Submitted by: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>
2001-02-25 16:47:44 +00:00
are allowed.
Size and type should be specifed without any spaces between them.
.Pp
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
Example: 2097152, 1G, 1024M and 1048576K are all the same size
Allow for easier configuration when using disklabel. A sample being: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 400M 0 4.2BSD 4096 16384 75 # (Cyl. 0 - 812*) b: 1G * swap c: * * unused e: 204800 * 4.2BSD f: 5g * 4.2BSD g: * * 4.2BSD These patches are the original work of Randell Jesup, and I believe Matt Dillon, with additional work by Warner Losh. Please let me know if I've left someone out. Incorporated into this is the fix for PR bin/22727. This patchset still has style issues and a possible problem on large disks. However, it was a agreed to get these committed before performing major surgery on them. PR: bin/22727 Submitted by: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>
2001-02-25 16:47:44 +00:00
(assuming 512-byte sectors).
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.It Ar offset
The offset of the start of the partition from the beginning of the
mdoc(7) police: misc formatting fixes. (This page still needs a lot of work.)
2001-03-05 15:33:54 +00:00
drive in sectors, or
.Cm *
to have
Allow for easier configuration when using disklabel. A sample being: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 400M 0 4.2BSD 4096 16384 75 # (Cyl. 0 - 812*) b: 1G * swap c: * * unused e: 204800 * 4.2BSD f: 5g * 4.2BSD g: * * 4.2BSD These patches are the original work of Randell Jesup, and I believe Matt Dillon, with additional work by Warner Losh. Please let me know if I've left someone out. Incorporated into this is the fix for PR bin/22727. This patchset still has style issues and a possible problem on large disks. However, it was a agreed to get these committed before performing major surgery on them. PR: bin/22727 Submitted by: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>
2001-02-25 16:47:44 +00:00
.Nm
calculate the correct offset to use (the end of the previous partition plus
one, ignoring partition
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Ql c .
Allow for easier configuration when using disklabel. A sample being: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 400M 0 4.2BSD 4096 16384 75 # (Cyl. 0 - 812*) b: 1G * swap c: * * unused e: 204800 * 4.2BSD f: 5g * 4.2BSD g: * * 4.2BSD These patches are the original work of Randell Jesup, and I believe Matt Dillon, with additional work by Warner Losh. Please let me know if I've left someone out. Incorporated into this is the fix for PR bin/22727. This patchset still has style issues and a possible problem on large disks. However, it was a agreed to get these committed before performing major surgery on them. PR: bin/22727 Submitted by: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>
2001-02-25 16:47:44 +00:00
For partition
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Ql c ,
mdoc(7) police: misc formatting fixes. (This page still needs a lot of work.)
2001-03-05 15:33:54 +00:00
.Cm *
will be interpreted as an offset of 0.
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.It Ar fstype
Describes the purpose of the partition.
The example shows all currently used partition types.
For
.Tn UFS
file systems and
.Xr ccd 4
partitions, use type
mdoc(7) police: misc formatting fixes. (This page still needs a lot of work.)
2001-03-05 15:33:54 +00:00
.Cm 4.2BSD .
Clarify the currently used partition types. Add cross-references to ccd(4) and vinum(8).
2001-05-14 23:26:40 +00:00
For Vinum drives, use type
.Cm vinum .
Allow for easier configuration when using disklabel. A sample being: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 400M 0 4.2BSD 4096 16384 75 # (Cyl. 0 - 812*) b: 1G * swap c: * * unused e: 204800 * 4.2BSD f: 5g * 4.2BSD g: * * 4.2BSD These patches are the original work of Randell Jesup, and I believe Matt Dillon, with additional work by Warner Losh. Please let me know if I've left someone out. Incorporated into this is the fix for PR bin/22727. This patchset still has style issues and a possible problem on large disks. However, it was a agreed to get these committed before performing major surgery on them. PR: bin/22727 Submitted by: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>
2001-02-25 16:47:44 +00:00
Other common types are
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Cm swap
Allow for easier configuration when using disklabel. A sample being: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 400M 0 4.2BSD 4096 16384 75 # (Cyl. 0 - 812*) b: 1G * swap c: * * unused e: 204800 * 4.2BSD f: 5g * 4.2BSD g: * * 4.2BSD These patches are the original work of Randell Jesup, and I believe Matt Dillon, with additional work by Warner Losh. Please let me know if I've left someone out. Incorporated into this is the fix for PR bin/22727. This patchset still has style issues and a possible problem on large disks. However, it was a agreed to get these committed before performing major surgery on them. PR: bin/22727 Submitted by: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>
2001-02-25 16:47:44 +00:00
and
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Cm unused .
mdoc(7) police: fix markup in revision 1.27.
2001-05-15 16:03:59 +00:00
By convention, partition
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Ql c
mdoc(7) police: fix markup in revision 1.27.
2001-05-15 16:03:59 +00:00
represents the entire slice and should be of type
Clarify the currently used partition types. Add cross-references to ccd(4) and vinum(8).
2001-05-14 23:26:40 +00:00
.Cm unused ,
though
.Nm
does not enforce this convention.
The .Nm utility
2002-07-06 19:34:18 +00:00
The
Clarify the currently used partition types. Add cross-references to ccd(4) and vinum(8).
2001-05-14 23:26:40 +00:00
.Nm
The .Nm utility
2002-07-06 19:34:18 +00:00
utility
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
also knows about a number of other partition types,
none of which are in current use.
(See the definitions starting with
mdoc(7) police: fix markup in revision 1.27.
2001-05-15 16:03:59 +00:00
.Dv FS_UNUSED
in
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Aq Pa sys/disklabel.h
for more details.)
.It Ar fsize
Allow for easier configuration when using disklabel. A sample being: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 400M 0 4.2BSD 4096 16384 75 # (Cyl. 0 - 812*) b: 1G * swap c: * * unused e: 204800 * 4.2BSD f: 5g * 4.2BSD g: * * 4.2BSD These patches are the original work of Randell Jesup, and I believe Matt Dillon, with additional work by Warner Losh. Please let me know if I've left someone out. Incorporated into this is the fix for PR bin/22727. This patchset still has style issues and a possible problem on large disks. However, it was a agreed to get these committed before performing major surgery on them. PR: bin/22727 Submitted by: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>
2001-02-25 16:47:44 +00:00
For
mdoc(7) police: misc formatting fixes. (This page still needs a lot of work.)
2001-03-05 15:33:54 +00:00
.Cm 4.2BSD
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
and
.Tn LFS
file systems only, the fragment size.
Defaults to 1024 for partitions smaller than 1GB,
4096 for partitions 1GB or larger.
.It Ar bsize
Allow for easier configuration when using disklabel. A sample being: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 400M 0 4.2BSD 4096 16384 75 # (Cyl. 0 - 812*) b: 1G * swap c: * * unused e: 204800 * 4.2BSD f: 5g * 4.2BSD g: * * 4.2BSD These patches are the original work of Randell Jesup, and I believe Matt Dillon, with additional work by Warner Losh. Please let me know if I've left someone out. Incorporated into this is the fix for PR bin/22727. This patchset still has style issues and a possible problem on large disks. However, it was a agreed to get these committed before performing major surgery on them. PR: bin/22727 Submitted by: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>
2001-02-25 16:47:44 +00:00
For
mdoc(7) police: misc formatting fixes. (This page still needs a lot of work.)
2001-03-05 15:33:54 +00:00
.Cm 4.2BSD
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
and
.Tn LFS
file systems only, the block size.
Defaults to 8192 for partitions smaller than 1GB,
16384 for partitions 1GB or larger.
.It Ar bps/cpg
Allow for easier configuration when using disklabel. A sample being: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 400M 0 4.2BSD 4096 16384 75 # (Cyl. 0 - 812*) b: 1G * swap c: * * unused e: 204800 * 4.2BSD f: 5g * 4.2BSD g: * * 4.2BSD These patches are the original work of Randell Jesup, and I believe Matt Dillon, with additional work by Warner Losh. Please let me know if I've left someone out. Incorporated into this is the fix for PR bin/22727. This patchset still has style issues and a possible problem on large disks. However, it was a agreed to get these committed before performing major surgery on them. PR: bin/22727 Submitted by: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>
2001-02-25 16:47:44 +00:00
For
mdoc(7) police: misc formatting fixes. (This page still needs a lot of work.)
2001-03-05 15:33:54 +00:00
.Cm 4.2BSD
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
file systems, the number of cylinders in a cylinder group.
For
.Tn LFS
file systems, the segment shift value.
Defaults to 16 for partitions smaller than 1GB,
64 for partitions 1GB or larger.
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
.El
Fix typos and layout problem. PR: 23109 Submitted by: Jimmy Olgeni <olgeni@uli.it>
2000-11-28 20:38:20 +00:00
.Pp
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
The remainder of the line is a comment and shows the cylinder allocations based
on the obsolete (but possibly correct) geometry information about the drive.
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
The asterisk
.Pq Ql *
indicates that the partition does not begin or end exactly on a
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
cylinder boundary.
BSD 4.4 Lite sbin Sources Note: XNSrouted and routed NOT imported here, they shall be imported with usr.sbin.
1994-05-26 06:35:07 +00:00
.Sh EXAMPLES
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Dl "disklabel da0s1"
BSD 4.4 Lite sbin Sources Note: XNSrouted and routed NOT imported here, they shall be imported with usr.sbin.
1994-05-26 06:35:07 +00:00
.Pp
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
Display the in-core label for the first slice of the
.Pa da0
disk, as obtained via
Add support for virgin disklabels Submitted by: dillon
2000-10-31 07:07:39 +00:00
.Pa /dev/da0s1 .
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
(If the disk is
.Dq dangerously-dedicated ,
the base disk name should be specified, such as
.Pa da0 . )
BSD 4.4 Lite sbin Sources Note: XNSrouted and routed NOT imported here, they shall be imported with usr.sbin.
1994-05-26 06:35:07 +00:00
.Pp
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Dl "disklabel da0s1 > savedlabel"
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
.Pp
Remove whitespace at EOL.
2001-07-15 07:53:42 +00:00
Save the in-core label for
Add support for virgin disklabels Submitted by: dillon
2000-10-31 07:07:39 +00:00
.Pa da0s1
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
into the file
.Pa savedlabel .
This file can be used with the
.Fl R
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
option to restore the label at a later date.
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
.Pp
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Dl "disklabel -w -r /dev/da0s1 da2212 foo"
BSD 4.4 Lite sbin Sources Note: XNSrouted and routed NOT imported here, they shall be imported with usr.sbin.
1994-05-26 06:35:07 +00:00
.Pp
Remove whitespace at EOL.
2001-07-15 07:53:42 +00:00
Create a label for
Add support for virgin disklabels Submitted by: dillon
2000-10-31 07:07:39 +00:00
.Pa da0s1
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
based on information for
Avoid use of direct troff requests in mdoc(7) manual pages.
2000-11-10 17:46:15 +00:00
.Dq da2212
found in
BSD 4.4 Lite sbin Sources Note: XNSrouted and routed NOT imported here, they shall be imported with usr.sbin.
1994-05-26 06:35:07 +00:00
.Pa /etc/disktab .
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
Any existing bootstrap code will be clobbered
and the disk rendered unbootable.
BSD 4.4 Lite sbin Sources Note: XNSrouted and routed NOT imported here, they shall be imported with usr.sbin.
1994-05-26 06:35:07 +00:00
.Pp
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Dl "disklabel -e -r da0s1"
BSD 4.4 Lite sbin Sources Note: XNSrouted and routed NOT imported here, they shall be imported with usr.sbin.
1994-05-26 06:35:07 +00:00
.Pp
Remove whitespace at EOL.
2001-07-15 07:53:42 +00:00
Read the on-disk label for
Add support for virgin disklabels Submitted by: dillon
2000-10-31 07:07:39 +00:00
.Pa da0s1 ,
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
edit it, and reinstall in-core as well as on-disk.
Existing bootstrap code is unaffected.
BSD 4.4 Lite sbin Sources Note: XNSrouted and routed NOT imported here, they shall be imported with usr.sbin.
1994-05-26 06:35:07 +00:00
.Pp
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Dl "disklabel -e -r -n da0s1"
Allow for easier configuration when using disklabel. A sample being: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 400M 0 4.2BSD 4096 16384 75 # (Cyl. 0 - 812*) b: 1G * swap c: * * unused e: 204800 * 4.2BSD f: 5g * 4.2BSD g: * * 4.2BSD These patches are the original work of Randell Jesup, and I believe Matt Dillon, with additional work by Warner Losh. Please let me know if I've left someone out. Incorporated into this is the fix for PR bin/22727. This patchset still has style issues and a possible problem on large disks. However, it was a agreed to get these committed before performing major surgery on them. PR: bin/22727 Submitted by: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>
2001-02-25 16:47:44 +00:00
.Pp
Remove whitespace at EOL.
2001-07-15 07:53:42 +00:00
Read the on-disk label for
Allow for easier configuration when using disklabel. A sample being: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 400M 0 4.2BSD 4096 16384 75 # (Cyl. 0 - 812*) b: 1G * swap c: * * unused e: 204800 * 4.2BSD f: 5g * 4.2BSD g: * * 4.2BSD These patches are the original work of Randell Jesup, and I believe Matt Dillon, with additional work by Warner Losh. Please let me know if I've left someone out. Incorporated into this is the fix for PR bin/22727. This patchset still has style issues and a possible problem on large disks. However, it was a agreed to get these committed before performing major surgery on them. PR: bin/22727 Submitted by: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>
2001-02-25 16:47:44 +00:00
.Pa da0s1 ,
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
edit it, and display what the new label would be (in sectors).
It does
.Em not
install the new label either in-core or on-disk.
Allow for easier configuration when using disklabel. A sample being: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 400M 0 4.2BSD 4096 16384 75 # (Cyl. 0 - 812*) b: 1G * swap c: * * unused e: 204800 * 4.2BSD f: 5g * 4.2BSD g: * * 4.2BSD These patches are the original work of Randell Jesup, and I believe Matt Dillon, with additional work by Warner Losh. Please let me know if I've left someone out. Incorporated into this is the fix for PR bin/22727. This patchset still has style issues and a possible problem on large disks. However, it was a agreed to get these committed before performing major surgery on them. PR: bin/22727 Submitted by: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>
2001-02-25 16:47:44 +00:00
.Pp
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Dl "disklabel -r -w da0s1 auto"
Finally implement the "auto" disktype. It attempts to get all the required information from the driver, and produce a virgin disklabel for it. The latter might be further edited with `disklabel -e' to satisfy the user's need. The magic sequence is: disklabel -r -w sdX auto disklabel -e sdX
1996-01-22 01:01:15 +00:00
.Pp
Remove whitespace at EOL.
2001-07-15 07:53:42 +00:00
Try to auto-detect the required information from
Add support for virgin disklabels Submitted by: dillon
2000-10-31 07:07:39 +00:00
.Pa da0s1 ,
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
and write a new label to the disk.
Use another
.Nm Fl e
command to edit the
s/filesystem/file system/g as discussed on -developers
2002-08-21 18:11:48 +00:00
partitioning and file system information.
Finally implement the "auto" disktype. It attempts to get all the required information from the driver, and produce a virgin disklabel for it. The latter might be further edited with `disklabel -e' to satisfy the user's need. The magic sequence is: disklabel -r -w sdX auto disklabel -e sdX
1996-01-22 01:01:15 +00:00
.Pp
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Dl "disklabel -R da0s1 savedlabel"
BSD 4.4 Lite sbin Sources Note: XNSrouted and routed NOT imported here, they shall be imported with usr.sbin.
1994-05-26 06:35:07 +00:00
.Pp
Remove whitespace at EOL.
2001-07-15 07:53:42 +00:00
Restore the on-disk and in-core label for
Add support for virgin disklabels Submitted by: dillon
2000-10-31 07:07:39 +00:00
.Pa da0s1
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
from information in
.Pa savedlabel .
BSD 4.4 Lite sbin Sources Note: XNSrouted and routed NOT imported here, they shall be imported with usr.sbin.
1994-05-26 06:35:07 +00:00
Existing bootstrap code is unaffected.
.Pp
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Dl "disklabel -R -n da0s1 label_layout"
Allow for easier configuration when using disklabel. A sample being: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 400M 0 4.2BSD 4096 16384 75 # (Cyl. 0 - 812*) b: 1G * swap c: * * unused e: 204800 * 4.2BSD f: 5g * 4.2BSD g: * * 4.2BSD These patches are the original work of Randell Jesup, and I believe Matt Dillon, with additional work by Warner Losh. Please let me know if I've left someone out. Incorporated into this is the fix for PR bin/22727. This patchset still has style issues and a possible problem on large disks. However, it was a agreed to get these committed before performing major surgery on them. PR: bin/22727 Submitted by: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>
2001-02-25 16:47:44 +00:00
.Pp
Remove whitespace at EOL.
2001-07-15 07:53:42 +00:00
Display what the label would be for
Allow for easier configuration when using disklabel. A sample being: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 400M 0 4.2BSD 4096 16384 75 # (Cyl. 0 - 812*) b: 1G * swap c: * * unused e: 204800 * 4.2BSD f: 5g * 4.2BSD g: * * 4.2BSD These patches are the original work of Randell Jesup, and I believe Matt Dillon, with additional work by Warner Losh. Please let me know if I've left someone out. Incorporated into this is the fix for PR bin/22727. This patchset still has style issues and a possible problem on large disks. However, it was a agreed to get these committed before performing major surgery on them. PR: bin/22727 Submitted by: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>
2001-02-25 16:47:44 +00:00
.Pa da0s1
using the partition layout in
.Pa label_layout .
This is useful for determining how much space would be alloted for various
mdoc(7) police: misc formatting fixes. (This page still needs a lot of work.)
2001-03-05 15:33:54 +00:00
partitions with a labelling scheme using
.Cm % Ns -based
or
.Cm *
partition sizes.
Allow for easier configuration when using disklabel. A sample being: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 400M 0 4.2BSD 4096 16384 75 # (Cyl. 0 - 812*) b: 1G * swap c: * * unused e: 204800 * 4.2BSD f: 5g * 4.2BSD g: * * 4.2BSD These patches are the original work of Randell Jesup, and I believe Matt Dillon, with additional work by Warner Losh. Please let me know if I've left someone out. Incorporated into this is the fix for PR bin/22727. This patchset still has style issues and a possible problem on large disks. However, it was a agreed to get these committed before performing major surgery on them. PR: bin/22727 Submitted by: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>
2001-02-25 16:47:44 +00:00
.Pp
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Dl "disklabel -B da0s1"
BSD 4.4 Lite sbin Sources Note: XNSrouted and routed NOT imported here, they shall be imported with usr.sbin.
1994-05-26 06:35:07 +00:00
.Pp
Remove whitespace at EOL.
2001-07-15 07:53:42 +00:00
Install a new bootstrap on
Add support for virgin disklabels Submitted by: dillon
2000-10-31 07:07:39 +00:00
.Pa da0s1 .
BSD 4.4 Lite sbin Sources Note: XNSrouted and routed NOT imported here, they shall be imported with usr.sbin.
1994-05-26 06:35:07 +00:00
The boot code comes from
Drop the silly notion that i386 has two bootstrap files now that sys/boot creates a single file named just "boot". Apart from the fact that the option "-s" is now gone and that "-b" should be pointed at /boot/boot instead of /boot/boot1, this patch should be a no-op.
2003-01-26 14:35:53 +00:00
.Pa /boot/boot .
BSD 4.4 Lite sbin Sources Note: XNSrouted and routed NOT imported here, they shall be imported with usr.sbin.
1994-05-26 06:35:07 +00:00
On-disk and in-core labels are unchanged.
.Pp
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Dl "disklabel -w -B /dev/da0s1 -b newboot da2212"
BSD 4.4 Lite sbin Sources Note: XNSrouted and routed NOT imported here, they shall be imported with usr.sbin.
1994-05-26 06:35:07 +00:00
.Pp
Install a new label and bootstrap.
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
The label is derived from
.Xr disktab 5
information for
.Dq da2212 ,
Avoid use of direct troff requests in mdoc(7) manual pages.
2000-11-10 17:46:15 +00:00
and installed both in-core and on-disk.
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
The bootstrap code comes from the file
.Pa newboot
in the current working directory.
.Bd -literal -offset indent
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=512 count=32
fdisk -BI da0
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0s1 bs=512 count=32
disklabel -w -B da0s1 auto
disklabel -e da0s1
.Ed
Add support for virgin disklabels Submitted by: dillon
2000-10-31 07:07:39 +00:00
.Pp
Completely wipe any prior information on the disk, creating a new bootable
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
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disk with a
.Tn DOS
partition table containing one slice, covering the whole disk.
Initialize the label on this slice,
then edit it.
The
.Xr dd 1
commands are optional, but may be necessary for some
.Tn BIOS Ns es
to properly
Add support for virgin disklabels Submitted by: dillon
2000-10-31 07:07:39 +00:00
recognize the disk.
Allow for easier configuration when using disklabel. A sample being: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 400M 0 4.2BSD 4096 16384 75 # (Cyl. 0 - 812*) b: 1G * swap c: * * unused e: 204800 * 4.2BSD f: 5g * 4.2BSD g: * * 4.2BSD These patches are the original work of Randell Jesup, and I believe Matt Dillon, with additional work by Warner Losh. Please let me know if I've left someone out. Incorporated into this is the fix for PR bin/22727. This patchset still has style issues and a possible problem on large disks. However, it was a agreed to get these committed before performing major surgery on them. PR: bin/22727 Submitted by: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>
2001-02-25 16:47:44 +00:00
.Pp
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
This is an example disk label that uses some of the new partition size types
mdoc(7) police: misc formatting fixes. (This page still needs a lot of work.)
2001-03-05 15:33:54 +00:00
such as
.Cm % , M , G ,
and
.Cm * ,
which could be used as a source file for
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Dq Li "disklabel -R ad0s1c new_label_file" :
Allow for easier configuration when using disklabel. A sample being: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 400M 0 4.2BSD 4096 16384 75 # (Cyl. 0 - 812*) b: 1G * swap c: * * unused e: 204800 * 4.2BSD f: 5g * 4.2BSD g: * * 4.2BSD These patches are the original work of Randell Jesup, and I believe Matt Dillon, with additional work by Warner Losh. Please let me know if I've left someone out. Incorporated into this is the fix for PR bin/22727. This patchset still has style issues and a possible problem on large disks. However, it was a agreed to get these committed before performing major surgery on them. PR: bin/22727 Submitted by: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>
2001-02-25 16:47:44 +00:00
.Bd -literal -offset 4n
# /dev/ad0s1c:
type: ESDI
disk: ad0s1
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label:
Allow for easier configuration when using disklabel. A sample being: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 400M 0 4.2BSD 4096 16384 75 # (Cyl. 0 - 812*) b: 1G * swap c: * * unused e: 204800 * 4.2BSD f: 5g * 4.2BSD g: * * 4.2BSD These patches are the original work of Randell Jesup, and I believe Matt Dillon, with additional work by Warner Losh. Please let me know if I've left someone out. Incorporated into this is the fix for PR bin/22727. This patchset still has style issues and a possible problem on large disks. However, it was a agreed to get these committed before performing major surgery on them. PR: bin/22727 Submitted by: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>
2001-02-25 16:47:44 +00:00
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 16
sectors/cylinder: 1008
cylinders: 40633
sectors/unit: 40959009
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0 # milliseconds
track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds
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drivedata: 0
Allow for easier configuration when using disklabel. A sample being: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 400M 0 4.2BSD 4096 16384 75 # (Cyl. 0 - 812*) b: 1G * swap c: * * unused e: 204800 * 4.2BSD f: 5g * 4.2BSD g: * * 4.2BSD These patches are the original work of Randell Jesup, and I believe Matt Dillon, with additional work by Warner Losh. Please let me know if I've left someone out. Incorporated into this is the fix for PR bin/22727. This patchset still has style issues and a possible problem on large disks. However, it was a agreed to get these committed before performing major surgery on them. PR: bin/22727 Submitted by: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>
2001-02-25 16:47:44 +00:00
8 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
a: 400M 0 4.2BSD 4096 16384 75 # (Cyl. 0 - 812*)
Remove whitespace at EOL.
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b: 1G * swap
c: * * unused
e: 204800 * 4.2BSD
f: 5g * 4.2BSD
g: * * 4.2BSD
Allow for easier configuration when using disklabel. A sample being: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 400M 0 4.2BSD 4096 16384 75 # (Cyl. 0 - 812*) b: 1G * swap c: * * unused e: 204800 * 4.2BSD f: 5g * 4.2BSD g: * * 4.2BSD These patches are the original work of Randell Jesup, and I believe Matt Dillon, with additional work by Warner Losh. Please let me know if I've left someone out. Incorporated into this is the fix for PR bin/22727. This patchset still has style issues and a possible problem on large disks. However, it was a agreed to get these committed before performing major surgery on them. PR: bin/22727 Submitted by: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>
2001-02-25 16:47:44 +00:00
.Ed
BSD 4.4 Lite sbin Sources Note: XNSrouted and routed NOT imported here, they shall be imported with usr.sbin.
1994-05-26 06:35:07 +00:00
.Sh SEE ALSO
Clarify the currently used partition types. Add cross-references to ccd(4) and vinum(8).
2001-05-14 23:26:40 +00:00
.Xr ccd 4 ,
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Xr md 4 ,
Sort cross references.
1997-01-13 00:25:51 +00:00
.Xr disklabel 5 ,
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
.Xr disktab 5 ,
Various man page cleanup: - Sort xrefs - FreeBSD.ORG -> FreeBSD.org - Properly xref RFCs. - Be consistent with section names as outlined in mdoc(7). - Other misc mdoc cleanup. PR: doc/13144 Submitted by: Alexey M. Zelkin <phantom@cris.net>
1999-08-15 08:06:12 +00:00
.Xr boot0cfg 8 ,
Clarify the currently used partition types. Add cross-references to ccd(4) and vinum(8).
2001-05-14 23:26:40 +00:00
.Xr fdisk 8 ,
.Xr vinum 8
BSD 4.4 Lite sbin Sources Note: XNSrouted and routed NOT imported here, they shall be imported with usr.sbin.
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.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
The kernel device drivers will not allow the size of a disk partition
to be decreased or the offset of a partition to be changed while it is open.
Some device drivers create a label containing only a single large partition
Remove whitespace at EOL.
2001-07-15 07:53:42 +00:00
if a disk is unlabeled; thus, the label must be written to the
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Ql a
partition of the disk while it is open.
This sometimes requires the desired label to be set in two steps,
the first one creating at least one other partition,
and the second one setting the label on the new partition
while shrinking the
.Ql a
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
partition.
BSD 4.4 Lite sbin Sources Note: XNSrouted and routed NOT imported here, they shall be imported with usr.sbin.
1994-05-26 06:35:07 +00:00
.Pp
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
On some machines, the bootstrap code may not fit entirely in the area
s/filesystem/file system/g as discussed on -developers
2002-08-21 18:11:48 +00:00
allocated for it by some file systems.
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
As a result,
it may not be possible to have file systems on some partitions of a
Avoid use of direct troff requests in mdoc(7) manual pages.
2000-11-10 17:46:15 +00:00
.Dq bootable
disk.
BSD 4.4 Lite sbin Sources Note: XNSrouted and routed NOT imported here, they shall be imported with usr.sbin.
1994-05-26 06:35:07 +00:00
When installing bootstrap code,
Add section number to .Xr. Use of .Nm. Typo. Add rcsid. Remove unused #includes. Use err(3).
1998-06-04 06:49:13 +00:00
.Nm
BSD 4.4 Lite sbin Sources Note: XNSrouted and routed NOT imported here, they shall be imported with usr.sbin.
1994-05-26 06:35:07 +00:00
checks for these cases.
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
If the installed boot code would overlap a partition of type
.Dv FS_UNUSED ,
it is marked as type
.Dv FS_BOOT .
BSD 4.4 Lite sbin Sources Note: XNSrouted and routed NOT imported here, they shall be imported with usr.sbin.
1994-05-26 06:35:07 +00:00
The
.Xr newfs 8
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
utility will disallow creation of file systems on
.Dv FS_BOOT
partitions.
Conversely, if a partition has a type other than
.Dv FS_UNUSED
or
.Dv FS_BOOT ,
Add section number to .Xr. Use of .Nm. Typo. Add rcsid. Remove unused #includes. Use err(3).
1998-06-04 06:49:13 +00:00
.Nm
BSD 4.4 Lite sbin Sources Note: XNSrouted and routed NOT imported here, they shall be imported with usr.sbin.
1994-05-26 06:35:07 +00:00
will not install bootstrap code that overlaps it.
.Sh BUGS
When a disk name is given without a full pathname,
Avoid use of direct troff requests in mdoc(7) manual pages.
2000-11-10 17:46:15 +00:00
the constructed device name uses the
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Ql c
Avoid use of direct troff requests in mdoc(7) manual pages.
2000-11-10 17:46:15 +00:00
partition.
Try to preserve the fdisk table in the primary bootstrap, should it already exist. Mention the cases where this doesn't work in the BUGS section of the man page.
1996-02-03 21:14:09 +00:00
.Pp
For the i386 architecture, the primary bootstrap sector contains
an embedded
.Em fdisk
table.
The .Nm utility
2002-07-06 19:34:18 +00:00
The
.Nm
utility takes care to not clobber it when installing a bootstrap only
Try to preserve the fdisk table in the primary bootstrap, should it already exist. Mention the cases where this doesn't work in the BUGS section of the man page.
1996-02-03 21:14:09 +00:00
.Pq Fl B ,
or when editing an existing label
.Pq Fl e ,
but it unconditionally writes the primary bootstrap program onto
the disk for
.Fl w
or
.Fl R ,
thus replacing the
.Em fdisk
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
table by the dummy one in the bootstrap program.
This is only of
mdoc(7) police: s/BSD/.Bx/ where appropriate.
2001-08-14 10:01:54 +00:00
concern if the disk is fully dedicated, so that the
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
.Fx
disk label
Try to preserve the fdisk table in the primary bootstrap, should it already exist. Mention the cases where this doesn't work in the BUGS section of the man page.
1996-02-03 21:14:09 +00:00
starts at absolute block 0 on the disk.
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
.Pp
The .Nm utility
2002-07-06 19:34:18 +00:00
The
Make intelligible: Describe the command formats in English. Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk). Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps. Add example of output format. Not-objected-to-by: msmith rnordier
1999-07-31 08:11:58 +00:00
.Nm
The .Nm utility
2002-07-06 19:34:18 +00:00
utility
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
does not perform all possible error checking.
Quick grammar fix.
2003-04-17 17:36:31 +00:00
Warnings are given if partitions overlap,
Give this manpage a good overhaul, including the markup. Notable changes: - Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't use this argument. - Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard. - Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8) may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these, ``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
2003-03-15 22:00:45 +00:00
if an absolute offset does not match the expected offset,
if the
.Ql c
partition does not start at 0 or does not cover the entire slice,
if a partition runs past the end of the device,
and a number of other errors,
Quick grammar fix.
2003-04-17 17:36:31 +00:00
but no warning is given if space remains unused.
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