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authorKarel Zak2012-01-17 15:48:20 +0100
committerKarel Zak2012-01-17 15:48:20 +0100
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sfdisk: add note about alignment to the man page
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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@@ -26,6 +26,12 @@ doesn't understand the GUID Partition Table (GPT) format and it is not
designed for large partitions. In these cases use the more advanced GNU
.BR parted (8).
+Note that
+.B sfdisk
+does not align partitions to block device I/O limits. This functionality is
+provided by
+.BR fdisk (8).
+
.SS "List sizes"
.BI "sfdisk \-s " partition
gives the size of