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| author | Karel Zak | 2006-12-07 00:25:35 +0100 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2006-12-07 00:25:35 +0100 |
| commit | 2b6fc908bc368b540845a313c3b8a867c5ad9a42 (patch) | |
| tree | 6fad48a239bc90515a5dc4084d6e3c3ee1f41e29 /disk-utils/cfdisk.8 | |
| parent | Imported from util-linux-2.7.1 tarball. (diff) | |
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Imported from util-linux-2.8 tarball.
Diffstat (limited to 'disk-utils/cfdisk.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | disk-utils/cfdisk.8 | 8 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/disk-utils/cfdisk.8 b/disk-utils/cfdisk.8 index 010c370dd..c7ac94171 100644 --- a/disk-utils/cfdisk.8 +++ b/disk-utils/cfdisk.8 @@ -120,18 +120,14 @@ format the partition. For example, if you were using cfdisk to make a DOS partition table entry for /dev/hda1, then (after exiting fdisk or cfdisk and rebooting Linux so that the partition table information is valid) you would use the command "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1 bs=512 count=1" to zero -the first 512 bytes of the partition. -.B BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL -if you use the -.B dd -command, since a small typo can make all of the data on your disk useless. +the first 512 bytes of the partition. Note: .B BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL if you use the .B dd command, since a small typo can make all of the data on your disk useless. -For best resutls, you should always use an OS-specific partition table +For best results, you should always use an OS-specific partition table program. For example, you should make DOS partitions with the DOS FDISK program and Linux partitions with the Linux fdisk or Linux cfdisk program. |