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Diffstat (limited to 'gdisk.8')
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ .\" Copyright 2010 Roderick W. Smith (rodsmith@rodsbooks.com) .\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License -.TH "GDISK" "8" "0.6.6" "Roderick W. Smith" "GPT fdisk Manual" +.TH "GDISK" "8" "0.6.7" "Roderick W. Smith" "GPT fdisk Manual" .SH "NAME" gdisk \- Interactive GUID partition table (GPT) manipulator .SH "SYNOPSIS" @@ -155,7 +155,9 @@ Change the GPT name of a partition. This name is encoded as a UTF\-16 string, but \fBgdisk\fR supports only ASCII characters as names. For the most part, Linux ignores the partition name, but it may be important in some OSes. GPT fdisk sets -a default name based on the partition type code. +a default name based on the partition type code. Note that the GPT partition +name is different from the filesystem name, which is encoded in the filesystem's +data structures. .TP .B d |