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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 "SGDISK" "8" "0.6.10" "Roderick W. Smith" "GPT fdisk Manual" +.TH "SGDISK" "8" "0.6.11" "Roderick W. Smith" "GPT fdisk Manual" .SH "NAME" sgdisk \- Command\-line GUID partition table (GPT) manipulator for Linux and Unix .SH "SYNOPSIS" @@ -235,7 +235,17 @@ sectors are available, this function returns the value 0. Displays the sector number of the start of the largest available block of sectors on the disk. A script may store this value and pass it back as part of \fI\-n\fR's option to create a partition. If no unallocated -sectors are available, this function returns the value 0. +sectors are available, this function returns the value 0. Note that this +parameter is blind to partition alignment; when you actually create a +partition, its start point might be changed from this value. + +.TP +.B \-F, \-\-first\-aligned\-in\-largest +Similar to \fI\-f\fR (\fI\-\-first\-in\-largest\fR), except returns the +sector number with the current alignment correction applied. Use this +function if you need to compute the actual partition start point rather +than a theoretical start point or the actual start point if you set the +alignment value to 1. .TP .B \-g, \-\-mbrtogpt |