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author | Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2007-11-25 17:38:14 +0000 |
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committer | Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2007-11-25 17:38:14 +0000 |
commit | 59e530b18b223cedc65a249c15e1a49d4c2cf6d5 (patch) | |
tree | 039e472d4ad9ceddf5f3364d271e648af11669db | |
parent | ae69c063ee808ae65e6a10aee06551f5d24d3cde (diff) |
tweak previous;
-rw-r--r-- | sbin/fdisk/fdisk.8 | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/fdisk/fdisk.8 b/sbin/fdisk/fdisk.8 index ddd22c5c790..438fc9d9bfd 100644 --- a/sbin/fdisk/fdisk.8 +++ b/sbin/fdisk/fdisk.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: fdisk.8,v 1.61 2007/11/25 15:55:42 deraadt Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: fdisk.8,v 1.62 2007/11/25 17:38:13 jmc Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1997 Tobias Weingartner .\" All rights reserved. @@ -60,18 +60,18 @@ place of the original (MBR) boot block. Some other architectures (like the zaurus), consider sector 0 of the disk to contain the MBR partition table, but do not use the MBR bootcode at all. .Pp -Upon the first access to a disk, the partition information is fetched, +Upon first access to a disk, the partition information is retrieved, typically in .Xr disklabel 5 format. The location of the disklabel can vary from architecture to architecture, -but if one is not found the existance of a MBR partition table will create +but if one is not found the existence of an MBR partition table will create a spoofed prototypical disklabel which can be viewed using .Xr disklabel 8 . This spoofing mechanism is useful for permitting partition access for -devices which one would not normally want to place a true +devices which would not normally have a .Xr disklabel 5 -sector on. +sector. .Pp The options are as follows: .Bl -tag -width Ds @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ has passed to the kernel. .It Fl e Use the interactive edit of .Nm -to modify a MBR partition table. +to modify an MBR partition table. The editor permits configuration of the MBR partition, as well as extended MBR partitions. See |