From fdc6dcb89345e8890073a9566d20e05de748d4f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: pjd <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 14:17:26 +0000
Subject: Explain why the first partition should start at offset 16.

Requested by:	hrs
---
 sbin/bsdlabel/bsdlabel.8 | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

(limited to 'sbin/bsdlabel')

diff --git a/sbin/bsdlabel/bsdlabel.8 b/sbin/bsdlabel/bsdlabel.8
index 1d2dc2c..869b411 100644
--- a/sbin/bsdlabel/bsdlabel.8
+++ b/sbin/bsdlabel/bsdlabel.8
@@ -297,6 +297,8 @@ For partition
 .Ql c ,
 .Cm *
 will be interpreted as an offset of 0.
+The first partition should start at offset 16, because the first 16 sectors are
+reserved for metadata.
 .It Ar fstype
 Describes the purpose of the partition.
 The example shows all currently used partition types.
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