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authorKarel Zak2012-01-17 15:48:14 +0100
committerKarel Zak2012-01-17 15:48:14 +0100
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cfdisk: add note about alignment to the man page
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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@@ -44,6 +44,12 @@ argument are:
.RE
.fi
+Note that
+.B cfdisk
+does not align partitions to block device I/O limits. This functionality is
+provided by
+.BR fdisk (8).
+
In order to write the partition table
.B cfdisk
needs something called the `geometry' of the disk: the number