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
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Edward Tomasz Napierala 2015-09-02 14:08:43 +00:00
parent 089d32934a
commit b8c19fd719
15 changed files with 25 additions and 24 deletions

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@ -445,7 +445,10 @@ to properly
recognize the disk:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=512 count=32
fdisk -BI da0
gpart create -s MBR da0
gpart add -t freebsd da0
gpart set -a active -i 1 da0
gpart bootcode -b /boot/mbr da0
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0s1 bs=512 count=32
bsdlabel -w -B da0s1
bsdlabel -e da0s1
@ -495,6 +498,5 @@ are not generally compatible.
.Xr md 4 ,
.Xr disktab 5 ,
.Xr boot0cfg 8 ,
.Xr fdisk 8 ,
.Xr gpart 8 ,
.Xr newfs 8

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@ -100,8 +100,8 @@ flag is needed if the filesystem uses
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr disktab 5 ,
.Xr fs 5 ,
.Xr disklabel 8 ,
.Xr fsck 8 ,
.Xr gpart 8 ,
.Xr newfs 8 ,
.Xr tunefs 8
.Sh HISTORY

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@ -39,6 +39,13 @@ The
utility can be used to divide space on the disk into slices and set one
active.
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Bf -symbolic
This command is obsolete.
Users are advised to use
.Xr gpart 8
instead.
.Ef
.Pp
The
.Fx
utility,

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@ -121,9 +121,9 @@ to
.Pa /var/tmp/ffsinfo
with all available information.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr disklabel 8 ,
.Xr dumpfs 8 ,
.Xr fsck 8 ,
.Xr gpart 8 ,
.Xr growfs 8 ,
.Xr gvinum 8 ,
.Xr newfs 8 ,

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@ -300,8 +300,7 @@ mount /dev/md1.nop /mnt
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr md 4 ,
.Xr ffs 7 ,
.Xr bsdlabel 8 ,
.Xr fdisk 8 ,
.Xr gpart 8 ,
.Xr mdmfs 8 ,
.Xr malloc 9
.Sh HISTORY

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@ -303,11 +303,11 @@ on file systems that contain many small files.
.Xr geom 4 ,
.Xr disktab 5 ,
.Xr fs 5 ,
.Xr bsdlabel 8 ,
.Xr camcontrol 8 ,
.Xr dump 8 ,
.Xr dumpfs 8 ,
.Xr fsck 8 ,
.Xr gpart 8 ,
.Xr gjournal 8 ,
.Xr growfs 8 ,
.Xr gvinum 8 ,

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@ -228,9 +228,7 @@ Create a 30MB image file, with the FAT partition starting
newfs_msdos -C 30M -@63s ./somefile
.Ed
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr disktab 5 ,
.Xr disklabel 8 ,
.Xr fdisk 8 ,
.Xr gpart 8 ,
.Xr newfs 8
.Sh HISTORY
The

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@ -63,9 +63,7 @@ Create a file system, using default parameters, on
newfs_nandfs /dev/ada0s1
.Ed
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr disktab 5 ,
.Xr disklabel 8 ,
.Xr fdisk 8 ,
.Xr gpart 8 ,
.Xr newfs 8
.Sh HISTORY
The

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@ -352,9 +352,9 @@ requirement has not been adhered to.
.Xr make.conf 5 ,
.Xr ttys 5 ,
.Xr boot0cfg 8 ,
.Xr bsdlabel 8 ,
.Xr btxld 8 ,
.Xr config 8 ,
.Xr gpart 8 ,
.Xr gptboot 8 ,
.Xr halt 8 ,
.Xr loader 8 ,

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@ -205,8 +205,7 @@ None.
.Xr ada 4 ,
.Xr cam 4 ,
.Xr geom 4 ,
.Xr bsdlabel 8 ,
.Xr fdisk 8
.Xr gpart 8
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm

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@ -81,8 +81,7 @@ disk found in the
man page.
Other tools will also create these images, such as NanoBSD.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr disklabel 8 ,
.Xr fdisk 8 ,
.Xr gpart 8 ,
.Xr loader 8 ,
.Xr mdconfig 8 ,
.Xr mdmfs 8 ,

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@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ When mounting a DOS file system or
formatting a
.Fx
file system, check the slice of the disk with the
.Xr fdisk 8
.Xr gpart 8
utility.
.Pp
In order to unixify a ZIP disk, put the following in /etc/disktab:

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@ -753,10 +753,10 @@ over services you export from your box (web services, email).
.Xr ports 7 ,
.Xr boot 8 ,
.Xr bsdinstall 8 ,
.Xr bsdlabel 8 ,
.Xr ccdconfig 8 ,
.Xr config 8 ,
.Xr fsck 8 ,
.Xr gpart 8 ,
.Xr gjournal 8 ,
.Xr gstripe 8 ,
.Xr gvinum 8 ,

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@ -425,7 +425,7 @@ third form, replacing
.Ar NN
with the actual start of the partition
(which you can determine using
.Xr fdisk 8 ) .
.Xr gpart 8 ) .
Note that after saving the image to the slice, it will not yet be
recognised.
You have to use the

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@ -180,14 +180,13 @@ To enable just slices 1 and 3 in the menu:
.Dl "boot0cfg -m 0x5 ada0"
.Pp
To go back to non-interactive booting, use
.Xr fdisk 8
.Xr gpart 8
to install the default MBR:
.Pp
.Dl "fdisk -B ada0"
.Dl "gpart bootcode -b /boot/mbr ada0"
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr geom 4 ,
.Xr boot 8 ,
.Xr fdisk 8 ,
.Xr gpart 8
.Sh AUTHORS
.An Robert Nordier Aq Mt rnordier@FreeBSD.org