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authorKarel Zak2014-11-13 11:19:58 +0100
committerKarel Zak2014-11-13 11:19:58 +0100
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cfdisk: remove [Load] from menu
This functionality will be rarely used, so it does not make sense to waste screen space with this menu item. It's enough to provide this functionality in "Select label type" dialog (cfdisk --zero and then 'L' command). Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/disk-utils/cfdisk.8 b/disk-utils/cfdisk.8
index ab5175779..6da8f431b 100644
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+++ b/disk-utils/cfdisk.8
@@ -66,7 +66,9 @@ Display version information and exit.
.BR \-z , " \-\-zero"
Start with an in-memory zeroed partition table. This option does not zero the
partition table on the disk; rather, it simply starts the program without
-reading the existing partition table.
+reading the existing partition table. This option allows to a create new
+partition table from scratch or create a new partition table according to
+a sfdisk compatible script.
.SH COMMANDS
The commands for
@@ -105,18 +107,16 @@ MiB (=1024*1024), and so on for GiB, TiB, PiB, EiB, ZiB and YiB
Quit the program. This will exit the program without writing any data to
the disk.
.TP
-.B l
-Load sfdisk compatible script file and create a new (in-memory) disk label
-according to the script, and then it is possible to modify the
-partition table before you write it to the device.
-.TP
.B u
Dump the current in-memory partition table to the sfdisk compatible file.
-to the script file by command 'O'.
.sp
The script files are compatible between cfdisk, sfdisk, fdisk and another
libfdisk applications. For more details see
.BR sfdisk (8).
+.sp
+It is also possible to load sfdisk script to cfdisk if there is no partition
+table on the device or when you start cfdisk with \fI--zero\fR command line
+option.
.TP
.B t
Change the partition type. By default, new partitions are created as