From 956a96b371cf52f5fb4d01d4b604ca321f6664a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jason McIntyre Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 06:44:02 +0000 Subject: the note explaining partition letters is not a caveat, it is integral to the way disklabel works; move it into DESCRIPTION ok krw --- sbin/disklabel/disklabel.8 | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) (limited to 'sbin') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3