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author | Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> | 2014-10-23 12:03:31 +0200 |
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committer | Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> | 2014-10-24 11:10:06 +0200 |
commit | d2a3cce95a2f4f1329ea4c8d77c09c2ae35de859 (patch) | |
tree | 07449b8a3ec60c8168073f2f9b3e4809ab9af203 | |
parent | 735dcba8e9aaa2d93838a26da194d1add53c20d3 (diff) | |
download | util-linux-d2a3cce95a2f4f1329ea4c8d77c09c2ae35de859.tar.gz |
fdisk: add section about sizes to the man page
Addresses: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=594005
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/disk-utils/fdisk.8 b/disk-utils/fdisk.8 index 1da15d903..cea9853cb 100644 --- a/disk-utils/fdisk.8 +++ b/disk-utils/fdisk.8 @@ -122,6 +122,23 @@ is a device name followed by a partition number. For example, /dev/sda1 is the first partition on the first hard disk in the system. See also Linux kernel documentation (the Documentation/devices.txt file). +.SH SIZES +The "last sector" dialog accepts partition size specified by number of sectors +or by +<size>{K,B,M,G,...} notation. + +If the size is prefixed by '+' then it is interpreted as relative to the +partition first sector. In this case the size is expected in bytes and the +number may be followed by the multiplicative suffixes KiB=1024, MiB=1024*1024, +and so on for GiB, TiB, PiB, EiB, ZiB and YiB. The "iB" is optional, e.g. "K" +has the same meaning as "KiB". + +The relative sizes are always aligned according to device I/O limits. The ++<size>{K,B,M,G,...} notation is recommended. + +For backward compatibility fdisk also accepts the suffixes KB=1000, +MB=1000*1000, and so on for GB, TB, PB, EB, ZB and YB. These 10^N suffixes +are deprecated. + .SH DISK LABELS .B GPT (GUID Partition Table) .RS |