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authorKenneth R Westerback <krw@cvs.openbsd.org>2015-10-05 01:48:49 +0000
committerKenneth R Westerback <krw@cvs.openbsd.org>2015-10-05 01:48:49 +0000
commit767311b3a231c0d330c10ec8eab112926394912a (patch)
treea36e5ca06d9ba377cf90d75d8f18df75b087d17d
parent7826ad07d96e65e8960ff190fd61002955c51aec (diff)
Tweak man page to describe newly enhanced '-g' operation.
-rw-r--r--sbin/fdisk/fdisk.818
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/fdisk/fdisk.8 b/sbin/fdisk/fdisk.8
index e463a758f23..b5d7bd4e5c3 100644
--- a/sbin/fdisk/fdisk.8
+++ b/sbin/fdisk/fdisk.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: fdisk.8,v 1.84 2015/09/09 15:20:22 deraadt Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: fdisk.8,v 1.85 2015/10/05 01:48:48 krw Exp $
.\"
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1997 Tobias Weingartner
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: September 9 2015 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: October 5 2015 $
.Dt FDISK 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -90,9 +90,17 @@ Specifies an alternate MBR template file.
The default file is
.Pa /usr/mdec/mbr .
.It Fl g
-A protective MBR for GPT will be written to disk, instead of an MBR with an
+A protective MBR and a GPT label will be written to disk.
+The GPT label will have a single
.Ox
-MBR partition.
+partition
+containing all available space.
+If
+.Fl b
+is specified, an EFI System partition of the requested size
+is created before the remaining space is put into the
+.Ox
+partition.
Only valid with
.Fl i .
.It Fl i
@@ -112,7 +120,7 @@ for booting.
This mode is designed to initialize the MBR the very first time.
If the
.Fl g
-flag is also specified, a protective MBR for GPT will be created.
+flag is also specified, a protective MBR and GPT label will be created.
.Pp
Only one of
.Fl i