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authorRoderick W. Smith <rodsmith@rodsbooks.com>2015-04-24 21:39:20 -0400
committerRoderick W. Smith <rodsmith@rodsbooks.com>2015-04-24 21:39:20 -0400
commit8017e083aac6377e95170d520184c1834e9021a4 (patch)
tree40640b48f0dc5de0ddabe4ab370bb33aa13aa7ca /gdisk.8
parent54f8fb17e64e09ca508d266356d9c6fd34a4fd4c (diff)
downloadsgdisk-8017e083aac6377e95170d520184c1834e9021a4.tar.gz
Changed -z and -Z behavior in sgdisk so that subsequent changes are
written even if -g is not included. Also some man page updates.
Diffstat (limited to 'gdisk.8')
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@@ -212,7 +212,8 @@ sector.
.B o
Clear out all partition data. This includes GPT header data,
all partition definitions, and the protective MBR. The sector alignment
-is reset to the default (2048 sectors, or 1MB).
+is reset to the default (1MB, or 2048 sectors on a disk with 512-byte
+sectors).
.TP
.B p
@@ -470,12 +471,13 @@ Change the sector alignment value. Disks with more logical sectors per
physical sectors (such as modern Advanced Format drives), some RAID
configurations, and many SSD devices, can suffer performance problems if
partitions are not aligned properly for their internal data structures. On
-new disks, GPT fdisk attempts to align partitions on 2048\-sector (1MiB)
-boundaries by default, which optimizes performance for all of these disk
-types. On pre\-partitioned disks, GPT fdisk attempts to identify the
-alignment value used on that disk, but will set 8-sector alignment on disks
-larger than 300 GB even if lesser alignment values are detected. In either
-case, it can be changed by using this option.
+new disks, GPT fdisk attempts to align partitions on 1MiB boundaries
+(2048\-sectors on disks with 512-byte sectors) by default, which optimizes
+performance for all of these disk types. On pre\-partitioned disks, GPT
+fdisk attempts to identify the alignment value used on that disk, but will
+set 8-sector alignment on disks larger than 300 GB even if lesser alignment
+values are detected. In either case, it can be changed by using this
+option.
.TP
.B m