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| author | Karel Zak | 2017-05-09 13:05:26 +0200 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2017-05-09 13:05:26 +0200 |
| commit | a4aa4a6c9df5052dad9e72e829e6d2fad4473f83 (patch) | |
| tree | ff21b7d6d023fd25bdb97bd2c23114149f6d43b7 /disk-utils | |
| parent | lscpu: reuse the same buffer (diff) | |
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fdisk: add to the man page missing option
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'disk-utils')
| -rw-r--r-- | disk-utils/fdisk.8 | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/disk-utils/fdisk.8 b/disk-utils/fdisk.8 index 1706b928f..91c6b6f84 100644 --- a/disk-utils/fdisk.8 +++ b/disk-utils/fdisk.8 @@ -120,6 +120,17 @@ partition tables.) A reasonable value is 63. .TP \fB\-w\fR, \fB\-\-wipe\fR \fIwhen\fR +Wipe filesystem, RAID and partition-table signatures from the device, in order +to avoid possible collisions. The argument \fIwhen\fR can be \fBauto\fR, +\fBnever\fR or \fBalways\fR. When this option is not given, the default is +\fBauto\fR, in which case signatures are wiped only when in interactive mode. +In all cases detected signatures are reported by warning messages +before a new partition table is created. See also +.BR wipefs (8) +command. + +.TP +\fB\-W\fR, \fB\-\-wipe-partition\fR \fIwhen\fR Wipe filesystem, RAID and partition-table signatures from a newly created partitions, in order to avoid possible collisions. The argument \fIwhen\fR can be \fBauto\fR, \fBnever\fR or \fBalways\fR. When this option is not given, the |