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Document the history of fdisk based on the original post to comp.unix.bsd by Julian Elischer [1] and the Mach 2.5 Installation notes [2].

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I was unable to pin point the exact version of Mach the fdisk utility appeared as I could not find documentation older than version 2.5 & no source code or repo history.
fdisk utility appears as a separate utility[3] in v2.5. Due to this, I have avoided stating the exact version fdisk first appeared in Mach.
Add authors section.
Make correction pointed by igor
[1] https://groups.google.com/d/topic/comp.unix.bsd/Hhi45vAHxDg/discussion
[2] ftp://ftp.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/doc/misc/mach-i386-doc/i386_install.ps
[3] ftp://ftp.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/doc/misc/mach-i386-doc/i386_manpages.ps
PR:		212469
Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
MFC after:	5 days
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8104
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Sevan Janiyan 2016-10-05 20:21:06 +00:00
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.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd October 1, 2013
.Dd October 5, 2016
.Dt FDISK 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -177,19 +177,19 @@ An example follows:
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 495, size 380160 (185 Meg), flag 0
start 495, size 380160 (185 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 1/ sector 1/ head 0;
end: cyl 768/ sector 33/ head 14
The data for partition 2 is:
sysid 164,(unknown)
start 378180, size 2475 (1 Meg), flag 0
start 378180, size 2475 (1 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 764/ sector 1/ head 0;
end: cyl 768/ sector 33/ head 14
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 4 is:
sysid 99,(ISC UNIX, other System V/386, GNU HURD or Mach)
start 380656, size 224234 (109 Meg), flag 80
start 380656, size 224234 (109 Meg), flag 80
beg: cyl 769/ sector 2/ head 0;
end: cyl 197/ sector 33/ head 14
.Ed
@ -485,6 +485,21 @@ The default boot code.
.Xr bsdlabel 8 ,
.Xr gpart 8 ,
.Xr newfs 8
.Sh HISTORY
A version of
.Nm
first appeared in the Mach Operating System.
It was subsequently ported to
.Bx 386 .
.Sh AUTHORS
.An -nosplit
.Nm
for Mach Operating System was written by
.An Robert Baron Aq Mt rvb@cs.cmu.edu .
It was ported to
.Bx 386
by
.An Julian Elischer Aq Mt julian@tfs.com .
.Sh BUGS
The default boot code will not necessarily handle all slice types
correctly, in particular those introduced since