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| author | srs5694 <srs5694@users.sourceforge.net> | 2010-10-07 13:00:45 -0400 |
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| committer | srs5694 <srs5694@users.sourceforge.net> | 2010-10-07 13:00:45 -0400 |
| commit | 0873e9d0e9345a2c4418b4718db525c9f1111c83 (patch) | |
| tree | 4c6b2adf5d20e0bce392eb2cf0ebc47801d9495b /gdisk.8 | |
| parent | ab4b0438394df4ae6bdea86194e254d7d35fdea0 (diff) | |
| download | sgdisk-0873e9d0e9345a2c4418b4718db525c9f1111c83.tar.gz | |
Version 0.6.12 release; mostly changes in support for disks with other
than 512-byte sectors.
Diffstat (limited to 'gdisk.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | gdisk.8 | 21 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 10 deletions
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ .\" Copyright 2010 Roderick W. Smith (rodsmith@rodsbooks.com) .\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License -.TH "GDISK" "8" "0.6.11" "Roderick W. Smith" "GPT fdisk Manual" +.TH "GDISK" "8" "0.6.12" "Roderick W. Smith" "GPT fdisk Manual" .SH "NAME" gdisk \- Interactive GUID partition table (GPT) manipulator .SH "SYNOPSIS" @@ -197,15 +197,16 @@ Create a new partition. This command is modelled after the equivalent \fBfdisk\fR option, although some differences exist. You enter a partition number, starting sector, and an ending sector. Both start and end sectors can be specified in absolute terms as sector numbers or as positions -measured in kilobytes (K), megabytes (M), gigabytes (G), or terabytes (T); -for instance, \fI\fB40M\fR\fR specifies a position 40MiB from the start of -the disk. You can specify locations relative to the start or end of the -specified default range by preceding the number by a '+' or '\-' symbol, as -in \fI\fB+2G\fR\fR to specify a point 2GiB after the default start sector, -or \fI\fB\-200M\fR\fR to specify a point 200MiB before the last available -sector. Pressing the Enter key with no input specifies the default value, -which is the start of the largest available block for the start sector and -the end of the same block for the end sector. +measured in kibibytes (K), mebibytes (M), gibibytes (G), tebibytes (T), or +pebibytes (P); for instance, \fI\fB40M\fR\fR specifies a position 40MiB +from the start of the disk. You can specify locations relative to the start +or end of the specified default range by preceding the number by a '+' or +'\-' symbol, as in \fI\fB+2G\fR\fR to specify a point 2GiB after the +default start sector, or \fI\fB\-200M\fR\fR to specify a point 200MiB +before the last available sector. Pressing the Enter key with no input +specifies the default value, which is the start of the largest available +block for the start sector and the end of the same block for the end +sector. .TP .B o |