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--- linuxfdisk.8.orig Tue Aug 6 17:33:33 2002
+++ linuxfdisk.8 Mon Jun 16 18:52:50 2003
@@ -5,14 +5,14 @@
.SH NAME
fdisk \- Partition table manipulator for Linux
.SH SYNOPSIS
-.BI "fdisk [\-u] [\-b " sectorsize ]
+.BI "linuxfdisk [\-u] [\-b " sectorsize ]
.BI "[\-C " cyls "] [\-H " heads "] [\-S " sects "] " device
.sp
-.BI "fdisk \-l [\-u] [" "device ..." ]
+.BI "linuxfdisk \-l [\-u] [" "device ..." ]
.sp
-.BI "fdisk \-s " "partition ..."
+.BI "linuxfdisk \-s " "partition ..."
.sp
-.BI "fdisk \-v
+.BI "linuxfdisk \-v
.SH DESCRIPTION
Hard disks can be divided into one or more logical disks called
.IR partitions .
@@ -54,8 +54,7 @@
/dev/sdb
.RE
.fi
-(/dev/hd[a-h] for IDE disks, /dev/sd[a-p] for SCSI disks,
-/dev/ed[a-d] for ESDI disks, /dev/xd[ab] for XT disks).
+(/dev/adN for IDE disks, /dev/daN for SCSI disks, N=0,1,2...)
A device name refers to the entire disk.
The
@@ -63,11 +62,9 @@
is a
.I device
name followed by a partition number. For example,
-.B /dev/hda1
+.B /dev/ad0s1
is the first partition on the first IDE hard disk in the system.
IDE disks can have up to 63 partitions, SCSI disks up to 15.
-See also
-.IR /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt .
A BSD/SUN type disklabel can describe 8 partitions,
the third of which should be a `whole disk' partition.
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