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| author | Karel Zak | 2017-03-02 13:51:40 +0100 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2017-03-02 13:51:40 +0100 |
| commit | 208b2ef0b6921898470acf3721329fd474098828 (patch) | |
| tree | bbcbe2f1d18d0c4826f56ab4f8cd74af068cda92 /disk-utils/sfdisk.8 | |
| parent | sfdisk: add note about alignment to man page (diff) | |
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sfdisk: note about small partition in man page
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'disk-utils/sfdisk.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | disk-utils/sfdisk.8 | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/disk-utils/sfdisk.8 b/disk-utils/sfdisk.8 index b72bb3217..b67befc44 100644 --- a/disk-utils/sfdisk.8 +++ b/disk-utils/sfdisk.8 @@ -47,8 +47,9 @@ The recommended way is not to specify start offsets at all and specify partition size in MiB, GiB (or so). In this case sfdisk align all partitions to block-device I/O limits (or when I/O limits are too small then to megabyte boundary to keep disk layout portable). If this default behaviour is unwanted -then specify offsets and sizes in sectors. In this case sfdisk entirely -follows specified numbers without any optimization. +(usually for very small partitions) then specify offsets and sizes in +sectors. In this case sfdisk entirely follows specified numbers without any +optimization. .sp .B sfdisk does not create the standard system partitions for SGI and SUN disk labels like |