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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2009-04-01 06:44:02 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2009-04-01 06:44:02 +0000
commit956a96b371cf52f5fb4d01d4b604ca321f6664a6 (patch)
treee0b3ba8db08d985939ac758f4257b3a55e384f49
parent171b506659098a8e98bf455baca526bc8d97b3b8 (diff)
the note explaining partition letters is not a caveat, it is integral to
the way disklabel works; move it into DESCRIPTION ok krw
-rw-r--r--sbin/disklabel/disklabel.844
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/disklabel/disklabel.8 b/sbin/disklabel/disklabel.8
index c82afad3476..fc003e8e4c1 100644
--- a/sbin/disklabel/disklabel.8
+++ b/sbin/disklabel/disklabel.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: disklabel.8,v 1.81 2009/03/31 11:33:47 krw Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: disklabel.8,v 1.82 2009/04/01 06:44:01 jmc Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: disklabel.8,v 1.9 1995/03/18 14:54:38 cgd Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1987, 1988, 1991, 1993
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
.\"
.\" @(#)disklabel.8 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/19/94
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: March 31 2009 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: April 1 2009 $
.Dt DISKLABEL 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -103,6 +103,26 @@ and the partition layout, stored on the disk itself.
It is used by the operating system to optimize disk I/O and
locate the filesystems resident on the disk.
.Pp
+.Nm
+supports 15 configurable partitions,
+.Sq a
+through
+.Sq p ,
+excluding
+.Sq c .
+The
+.Sq c
+partition describes the entire physical disk, is automatically created
+by the kernel, and cannot be modified or deleted by
+.Nm .
+By convention, the
+.Sq a
+partition of the boot disk is the root partition, and the
+.Sq b
+partition of the boot disk is the swap partition,
+but all other letters can be used in any order for any other
+partitions as desired.
+.Pp
The options are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fl A
@@ -615,26 +635,6 @@ will not install bootstrap code that overlaps it.
.Xr disktab 5 ,
.Xr scan_ffs 8
.Sh CAVEATS
-.Nm
-supports 15 configurable partitions,
-.Sq a
-through
-.Sq p ,
-excluding
-.Sq c .
-The
-.Sq c
-partition describes the entire physical disk, is automatically created
-by the kernel, and cannot be modified or deleted by
-.Nm .
-By convention, the
-.Sq a
-partition of the boot disk is the root partition, and the
-.Sq b
-partition of the boot disk is the swap partition,
-but all other letters can be used in any order for any other
-partitions as desired.
-.Pp
The maximum disk and partition size is 64PB.
.Pp
On some machines, such as Sparc and Sparc64, partition tables