add CAVEATS: disklabel only supports 15 partitions, excluding `c';

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2 files changed, 38 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/sbin/disklabel/disklabel.5 b/sbin/disklabel/disklabel.5
index 5f25d59217f..18caab3fb97 100644
--- a/sbin/disklabel/disklabel.5
+++ b/sbin/disklabel/disklabel.5
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: disklabel.5,v 1.15 2003/06/02 20:06:14 millert Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: disklabel.5,v 1.16 2003/06/21 23:14:23 jmc Exp $
 .\"	$NetBSD: disklabel.5,v 1.3 1995/03/18 14:54:36 cgd Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1987, 1991, 1993
@@ -119,3 +119,21 @@ All of these operations are normally done using
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr disktab 5 ,
 .Xr disklabel 8
+.Sh CAVEATS
+.Nm
+only supports up to a maximum of 15 partitions,
+.Sq a
+through
+.Sq p ,
+excluding
+.Sq c .
+The
+.Sq c
+partition is reserved for the entire physical disk.
+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.
diff --git a/sbin/disklabel/disklabel.8 b/sbin/disklabel/disklabel.8
index e3b53b43c32..6007100f16b 100644
--- a/sbin/disklabel/disklabel.8
+++ b/sbin/disklabel/disklabel.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: disklabel.8,v 1.52 2003/06/03 13:16:08 jmc Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: disklabel.8,v 1.53 2003/06/21 23:14:23 jmc Exp $
 .\"	$NetBSD: disklabel.8,v 1.9 1995/03/18 14:54:38 cgd Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1987, 1988, 1991, 1993
@@ -624,6 +624,24 @@ but this usage is deprecated.
 .Pp
 On some machines, such as the sparc, partition tables
 may not exhibit the full functionality that is described above.
+.Sh CAVEATS
+.Nm
+only supports up to a maximum of 15 partitions,
+.Sq a
+through
+.Sq p ,
+excluding
+.Sq c .
+The
+.Sq c
+partition is reserved for the entire physical disk.
+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.
 .Sh BUGS
 When a disk name is given without a full pathname, the constructed
 device name uses the