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| author | Karel Zak | 2019-05-28 15:12:31 +0200 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2019-05-28 15:12:31 +0200 |
| commit | b0eca21a5c97437be6f3fdc3521397a7f88959b5 (patch) | |
| tree | 2fa9971bb23d70efc2872ce59edcddf599588168 /disk-utils | |
| parent | ul: make sure buffers are zeroized [coverity scan] (diff) | |
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fdisk: add note about -S and -H
It's seems people still follow old advices for SSD/4K devices. Let's
make CHS deprecation more visible at the begin of the man page...
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'disk-utils')
| -rw-r--r-- | disk-utils/fdisk.8 | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/disk-utils/fdisk.8 b/disk-utils/fdisk.8 index 430c96c3d..a674f9ee5 100644 --- a/disk-utils/fdisk.8 +++ b/disk-utils/fdisk.8 @@ -36,6 +36,10 @@ as the default values (e.g. first and last partition sectors) and partition sizes specified by the +/-<size>{M,G,...} notation are always aligned according to the device properties. +CHS (Cylinder-Head-Sector) addressing is deprecated and not used by default. +Please, do not follow old articles and recommendations with "fdisk -S <n> -H +<n>" advices for SSD or 4K-sector devices. + Note that .BR partx (8) provides a rich interface for scripts to print disk layouts, |