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Sevan Janiyan
e67d220bb7 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].
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
2016-10-05 20:21:06 +00:00
Edward Tomasz Napierala
b8c19fd719 It's 2015, and some people are still trying to use fdisk and then
go asking what debug flags to set for GEOM to make it work.  Advice
them to use gpart(8) instead.

Something similar should probably done with disklabel,
but I need to rewrite the disklabel examples first.

Reviewed by:	wblock@
MFC after:	1 month
Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3315
2015-09-02 14:08:43 +00:00
Sergey Kandaurov
05d98029e9 Sweep man pages replacing ad -> ada.
Approved by:	re (blackend)
MFC after:	1 week
X-MFC note:	stable/9 only
2013-10-01 18:41:53 +00:00
Andrey V. Elsukov
9a5e36b804 Add reference to gpart(8).
MFC after:	3 days
2011-11-06 20:38:27 +00:00
Brian Somers
1496abde06 Bump the document date to reflect the 'p' command enhancements.
Suggested by:	trhodes
2009-05-25 21:27:31 +00:00
Brian Somers
d1c77156d8 Enhance the 'p' command so that it understands size qualifiers (K/M/G) and
so that it understands '*' as 'DTRT'.

PR:		68312
Submitted by:	Rene de Vries - rene at tunix dot nl (mostly)
MFC after:	3 weeks
2009-05-25 09:23:26 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
a61d918656 Add a -q[uiet] flag for scripts. 2008-07-31 00:55:29 +00:00
Maxim Konovalov
7914c60f5a o Add -p flag: print a slice table in fdisk configuration file format.
Now it is possible to do something like fdisk -p ad0 | fdisk -f - ad1.

PR:		bin/110182
Submitted by:	Jukka A. Ukkonen
MFC after:	1 month
2007-04-30 18:29:36 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
75cb6f3da0 - Document -u, -i, and the difference between them better.
- Remove some historical notes about "future" decisions.
2006-12-12 15:26:25 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
6028403f2e Document the following change in behavior:
: fdisk.c revision 1.74
: date: 2004/06/14 07:21:19;  author: phk;  state: Exp;  lines: +3 -3
: Make fdisk initialize the first instead of the last slice by default.
2006-12-08 21:50:48 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
9806e23132 Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 21:45:06 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
8b23842d38 s/disklabel/bsdlabel where needed. 2003-10-11 08:24:07 +00:00
Tom Rhodes
ce66ddb763 s/filesystem/file system/g as discussed on -developers 2002-08-21 18:11:48 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
92dcf6fa35 mdoc(7) police: tidy up the markup and some wording. 2002-05-30 09:41:33 +00:00
Tom Rhodes
05a213f1e8 Fix the fdisk(8) manual page.
s/partition/slice/ in fdisk.8
fix a bug in fdisk(8) where it did not honer -t when using -I

PR:		36563 and 35688
Submitted by:	bde
Reviewed by:	bde
2002-04-18 16:25:18 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
57e4378bf6 mdoc(7) police: protect trailing full stops of abbreviations
with a trailing zero-width space: `e.g.\&'.
2001-08-10 13:45:36 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
504dd5eab0 fdisk(8): document the default for -b, add xref to boot0cfg(8).
boot0cfg(8): add FILES section.

Reviewed by:	rnordier
2001-07-18 07:12:46 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
7ebcc426ef Remove whitespace at EOL. 2001-07-15 07:53:42 +00:00
Joerg Wunsch
df77f711f3 After some (long-standing ;-) critics from Bruce, throw away the old
device search code i introduce nearly six years ago in rev 1.8.  Bruce
suggested to rather use the device name of the root filesystem instead
which is certainly the most sensible default.  Since there are many
possible cases for a root filesystem name (device with and without
slices, consider /dev/vinum/root even though it currently could not
work as such), there's some heuristic using a RE in order to find out
the canonical device name from the mounted name.  This probably won't
quite fit for a NFS root (can't test that right now), but then,
there's hard to find a good default for those machines anyway. ;-)

This unbreaks the functionality of rev 1.2 i once broke in 1.8. :)
2001-07-13 16:48:56 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
9fe48c6e8d mdoc(7) police: removed HISTORY info from the .Os call. 2001-07-10 11:04:34 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
7401f04659 wd0 -> ad0
PR:		26343
Submitted by:	Sergey A. Osokin <osa@FreeBSD.org.ru>
2001-04-08 18:41:22 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
c2d03ea879 Eliminate mdocNG warnings caused by misplaced or extraneous macro calls. 2001-02-28 17:38:53 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
d0353b836e mdoc(7) police: split punctuation characters + misc fixes. 2001-02-01 16:38:02 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
1252c1bb05 Prepare for mdoc(7)NG. 2000-12-18 15:16:24 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
88544700ca mdoc(7) police: added missing .Os call. 2000-12-14 13:58:15 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
7c7fb079b9 mdoc(7) police: use the new features of the Nm macro. 2000-11-20 16:52:27 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
b5c508fba3 Use Fx macro wherever possible. 2000-11-14 11:20:58 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
726b61ab5f Avoid use of direct troff requests in mdoc(7) manual pages. 2000-11-10 17:46:15 +00:00
Sheldon Hearn
7b0070fc20 Fix nits in previous commit: restore option ordering of the option
description list; break an overly long line; use the Fx macro instead
of "FreeBSD".
2000-03-13 10:55:21 +00:00
Warner Losh
10b0ee9392 -e -> -I change.
-s for sumary

Approved by:	jkh
2000-03-10 22:03:00 +00:00
Peter Wemm
7f3dea244c $Id$ -> $FreeBSD$ 1999-08-28 00:22:10 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
e6fb3dde93 Add new option to fdisk: -e
This wipes the MBR and creates slice 1 as a FreeBSD slice covering the
disk starting from the second track to the cylinder aligned end of the disk.

This is the most compatibly layout we have as far as I know.
1999-08-23 11:06:19 +00:00
Robert Nordier
26721a89ff Drop the embedded boot code in favour of a -B option which reads
the boot code from /boot/mbr, or elsewhere as defined by the revised
"-b bootcode" option; use getopt(3); clarify usage(); partially
revise man page; etc.
1999-06-27 19:29:15 +00:00
Robert Nordier
ef76b8c057 Note that a standard MBR supports booting only from hard drive 0 1999-03-13 01:40:57 +00:00
Robert Nordier
12d910e9bb Add a -b option as a simple way to rewrite the mbr code
(eg. replacing a boot manager with a standard mbr)
1999-01-22 11:54:17 +00:00
Joerg Wunsch
698b4def3f sd0 -> da0 1998-11-26 12:24:35 +00:00
Philippe Charnier
d98b16689b Correct use of .Nm, use .Bx Free for FreeBSD. Add rcsid, remove unused
#includes. Spelling. Use err(3) and add usage().
1998-07-06 06:44:36 +00:00
Steve Price
8588641614 Fix a spelling error.
PR:		6857
Submitted by:	Josh Gilliam <josh@quick.net>
1998-06-04 21:09:08 +00:00
Brian Somers
4ddd60b905 Number partitions 1-4, not 0-3.
Any existing config files (using the -f option) will need
to be changed although using the old files will usually result
in an error (partition 0 is invalid).
1997-06-03 21:24:39 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
f46af50517 Allow fdisk to be driven from a configuration file, making a 3rd-party
utility for front-ending its operation more of a possibility.

2.2-RELEASE candiate.  Closes PR#1960
Submitted-By: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com>
1996-11-06 14:08:39 +00:00
Mike Pritchard
a5ed710ccd Fix even more spelling errors in some more man pages. 1996-01-30 16:34:52 +00:00
Jean-Marc Zucconi
dc94a1c589 Fix the spelling of 'partition'. 1996-01-04 02:00:16 +00:00
Joerg Wunsch
e3038c6ef5 Update to the slices era. Make /dev/rfoo0 the defaults, not
/dev/rfoo0d.

Scan a list of devices instead of insisting on all the world
being wd0.

Allow for disk names to be specified (e.g. `sd0') instead of full
path names only.

Sync the man page with the reality.
1995-09-01 18:00:14 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
2caac73e76 Fix gross spelling and typographical errors pointed out by Keith Bostic. 1994-04-24 01:22:07 +00:00
Rodney W. Grimes
0ef0620351 The fdisk man page doesn't show correctly the usage possibilities of
fdisk.  It was missing the disk argument.

From: Andreas Schulz <ats@g386bsd.first.gmd.de>
1993-08-10 10:31:35 +00:00
Rodney W. Grimes
5b81b6b301 Initial import, 0.1 + pk 0.2.4-B1 1993-06-12 14:58:17 +00:00