From a4231f5c898f21748e429a415f6ce34805d8dddb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: sevan Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2016 20:28:04 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] 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. [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: 212470 Approved by: bcr (mentor) MFC after: 5 days Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8104 --- sbin/fdisk_pc98/fdisk.8 | 17 ++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/sbin/fdisk_pc98/fdisk.8 b/sbin/fdisk_pc98/fdisk.8 index aa3a6c4dc158..eea55590baa9 100644 --- a/sbin/fdisk_pc98/fdisk.8 +++ b/sbin/fdisk_pc98/fdisk.8 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd April 30, 2007 +.Dd October 5, 2016 .Dt FDISK 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -448,6 +448,21 @@ Example: to make slice 1 the active slice: .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