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| author | Roderick W. Smith <rodsmith@rodsbooks.com> | 2015-04-24 21:39:20 -0400 |
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| committer | Roderick W. Smith <rodsmith@rodsbooks.com> | 2015-04-24 21:39:20 -0400 |
| commit | 8017e083aac6377e95170d520184c1834e9021a4 (patch) | |
| tree | 40640b48f0dc5de0ddabe4ab370bb33aa13aa7ca /sgdisk.8 | |
| parent | 54f8fb17e64e09ca508d266356d9c6fd34a4fd4c (diff) | |
| download | sgdisk-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 'sgdisk.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | sgdisk.8 | 15 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions
@@ -148,11 +148,11 @@ sibling. Options available in \fBsgdisk\fR are: .TP .B \-a, \-\-set\-alignment=value Set the sector alignment multiple. GPT fdisk aligns the start of partitions -to sectors that are multiples of this value, which defaults to 2048 on -freshly formatted disks. This alignment value is necessary to obtain optimum -performance with Western Digital Advanced Format and similar drives with larger -physical than logical sector sizes, with some types of RAID arrays, and -with SSD devices. +to sectors that are multiples of this value, which defaults to 1MiB (2048 +on disks with 512-byte sectors) on freshly formatted disks. This alignment +value is necessary to obtain optimum performance with Western Digital +Advanced Format and similar drives with larger physical than logical sector +sizes, with some types of RAID arrays, and with SSD devices. .TP .B \-A, \-\-attributes=list|[partnum:show|or|nand|xor|=|set|clear|toggle|get[:bitnum|hexbitmask]] @@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ to use the first available partition number. Subsequent uses of the Create a new partition that fills the largest available block of space on the disk. Note that if used on a completely blank disk, this is likely to result in a sector-moved warning, since the first available sector -(normally 34) doesn't fall on a 2048-sector boundary (the default for +(normally 34) doesn't fall on a 1MiB boundary (the default for alignment). You can use the \fI\-a\fR (\fI\-\-set\-alignment\fR) option to adjust the alignment, if desired. A num value of 0 causes the program to use the first available partition number. @@ -483,7 +483,8 @@ An error occurred while reading the partition table .TP .B 3 -Non\-GPT disk detected and no \fI\-g\fR option +Non\-GPT disk detected and no \fI\-g\fR option, but operation requires a +write action .TP .B 4 |