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| author | Karel Zak | 2014-10-23 12:03:31 +0200 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2014-10-23 12:11:50 +0200 |
| commit | fd211531e8b079380c3b041a4768005b63c42d78 (patch) | |
| tree | 01664b5fbdf52a1e903d8ea57536f5ce6c38982f /disk-utils/fdisk.8 | |
| parent | docs: remove obsolete READMEs for (s)fdisk (diff) | |
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fdisk: add section about sizes to the man page
Addresses: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=594005
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/disk-utils/fdisk.8 b/disk-utils/fdisk.8 index 2ee5f6448..9ed342e4e 100644 --- a/disk-utils/fdisk.8 +++ b/disk-utils/fdisk.8 @@ -130,6 +130,23 @@ is a device name followed by a partition number. For example, /dev/sda1 is the first partition on the first hard disk in the system. See also Linux kernel documentation (the Documentation/devices.txt file). +.SH SIZES +The "last sector" dialog accepts partition size specified by number of sectors +or by +<size>{K,B,M,G,...} notation. + +If the size is prefixed by '+' then it is interpreted as relative to the +partition first sector. In this case the size is expected in bytes and the +number may be followed by the multiplicative suffixes KiB=1024, MiB=1024*1024, +and so on for GiB, TiB, PiB, EiB, ZiB and YiB. The "iB" is optional, e.g. "K" +has the same meaning as "KiB". + +The relative sizes are always aligned according to device I/O limits. The ++<size>{K,B,M,G,...} notation is recommended. + +For backward compatibility fdisk also accepts the suffixes KB=1000, +MB=1000*1000, and so on for GB, TB, PB, EB, ZB and YB. These 10^N suffixes +are deprecated. + .SH DISK LABELS .B GPT (GUID Partition Table) .RS |