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authorsevan <sevan@FreeBSD.org>2016-10-16 23:40:17 +0000
committersevan <sevan@FreeBSD.org>2016-10-16 23:40:17 +0000
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MFC r306731:
Document the history of fdisk based on the original post to comp.unix.bsd by Julian Elischer [1] and the Mach 2. 5 Installation notes [2]. I was unable to pin point the exact version of Mach the fdisk utility appeared as I could not find documentation older than version 2.5 & no source code or repo history. fdisk utility appears as a separate utility[3] in v2.5. Due to this, I have avoided stating the exact version fd isk first appeared in Mach. Add authors section. Make correction pointed by igor [1] https://groups.google.com/d/topic/comp.unix.bsd/Hhi45vAHxDg/discussion [2] ftp://ftp.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/doc/misc/mach-i386-doc/i386_install.ps [3] ftp://ftp.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/doc/misc/mach-i386-doc/i386_manpages.ps PR: 212469 Approved by: bcr (mentor) Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8104
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/fdisk')
-rw-r--r--sbin/fdisk/fdisk.823
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/fdisk/fdisk.8 b/sbin/fdisk/fdisk.8
index 6894ab9..87862ec 100644
--- a/sbin/fdisk/fdisk.8
+++ b/sbin/fdisk/fdisk.8
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd October 1, 2013
+.Dd October 5, 2016
.Dt FDISK 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -177,19 +177,19 @@ An example follows:
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
- start 495, size 380160 (185 Meg), flag 0
+ start 495, size 380160 (185 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 1/ sector 1/ head 0;
end: cyl 768/ sector 33/ head 14
The data for partition 2 is:
sysid 164,(unknown)
- start 378180, size 2475 (1 Meg), flag 0
+ start 378180, size 2475 (1 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 764/ sector 1/ head 0;
end: cyl 768/ sector 33/ head 14
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 4 is:
sysid 99,(ISC UNIX, other System V/386, GNU HURD or Mach)
- start 380656, size 224234 (109 Meg), flag 80
+ start 380656, size 224234 (109 Meg), flag 80
beg: cyl 769/ sector 2/ head 0;
end: cyl 197/ sector 33/ head 14
.Ed
@@ -485,6 +485,21 @@ The default boot code.
.Xr bsdlabel 8 ,
.Xr gpart 8 ,
.Xr newfs 8
+.Sh HISTORY
+A version of
+.Nm
+first appeared in the Mach Operating System.
+It was subsequently ported to
+.Bx 386 .
+.Sh AUTHORS
+.An -nosplit
+.Nm
+for Mach Operating System was written by
+.An Robert Baron Aq Mt rvb@cs.cmu.edu .
+It was ported to
+.Bx 386
+by
+.An Julian Elischer Aq Mt julian@tfs.com .
.Sh BUGS
The default boot code will not necessarily handle all slice types
correctly, in particular those introduced since
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