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authorIgor Sobrado <sobrado@cvs.openbsd.org>2010-07-05 21:57:14 +0000
committerIgor Sobrado <sobrado@cvs.openbsd.org>2010-07-05 21:57:14 +0000
commit0663a4737a4e7ae57ba0218fb2d60afe51c07aa9 (patch)
treec531e358dc93988e85b7fdd6ffc7850f0d6406a7 /sbin/fdisk/fdisk.8
parent2e87b7ee142639249253c1fba9d51d0101953496 (diff)
improve description for -i; as a consequence of recent changes,
OpenBSD MBR partition does not span from sector 1 after MBR partition data is re-initialized. written with lot of good advice from deraadt@ and jmc@ ok deraadt@
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/fdisk/fdisk.8')
-rw-r--r--sbin/fdisk/fdisk.88
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/fdisk/fdisk.8 b/sbin/fdisk/fdisk.8
index 5e1e1a90bea..5ebfd3b4d7b 100644
--- a/sbin/fdisk/fdisk.8
+++ b/sbin/fdisk/fdisk.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: fdisk.8,v 1.71 2010/05/25 18:51:02 deraadt Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: fdisk.8,v 1.72 2010/07/05 21:57:13 sobrado Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1997 Tobias Weingartner
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: May 25 2010 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: July 5 2010 $
.Dt FDISK 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -116,8 +116,8 @@ using the default MBR template
flag).
In the default template, MBR partition number 3 will be configured as an
.Ox
-MBR partition spanning from cylinder 0, head 1, sector 1, and extending
-to the end of the disk.
+MBR partition spanning the entire disk, except for a zone left at the start
+for booting.
This mode is designed to initialize the MBR the very first time.
.It Fl u
Update MBR bootcode, preserving existing MBR partition table.