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diff --git a/disk-utils/README.fdisk.bsd b/disk-utils/README.fdisk.bsd deleted file mode 100644 index 705df90f8..000000000 --- a/disk-utils/README.fdisk.bsd +++ /dev/null @@ -1,28 +0,0 @@ - -All changes in fdisk.c are marked with this comment: /* bf */ - -I added some explanatory comments to make it easier to see what -changed and why. You'll probably want to remove them. - -There's a function sync_disks() in fdisklabel.c which could be called -from write_table() in fdisk.c (line 1216) (and be moved to fdisk.c) -to save a few bytes. - -There's a function edit_int() in fdisklabel.c which I added because read_int() -had no default value. In fdisk v2.0d it has so edit_int could be replaces by -read_int(). The function which uses edit_int() (bsd_edit_disklabel ()) is a -bit crufty anyhow: -- The disklabel contains some values which are probably meaningless for IDE or - SCSI drives, I made them editable but I don't know any sensible range of - values (bad for read_int()). (interleave, trackskew, cylskew) -- I made the values secsize/nsectors/ntracks/ncylinders editable for Linux/Alpha - but not for Linux/i386 because under Linux/i386 the disklabel is inside a - DOS partition so the disklabel was written by an OS which got along with the - disk and should have left the correct values there. - -I've put the BSD copyright (which applies to fdisklabel.h and -alpha_bootblock_checksum, bsd_dkcksum, bsd_print_disklabel in fdisklabel.c) -into a separate man page. This way all Linux versions of BSD programs can refer -to ths bsd.<n> man page. - -fasten@informatik.uni-bonn.de |