From b0eca21a5c97437be6f3fdc3521397a7f88959b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Karel Zak Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 15:12:31 +0200 Subject: 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 --- disk-utils/fdisk.8 | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'disk-utils') 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 +/-{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 -H +" advices for SSD or 4K-sector devices. + Note that .BR partx (8) provides a rich interface for scripts to print disk layouts, -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522