67 lines
1.9 KiB
Groff
67 lines
1.9 KiB
Groff
.TH PARTITION 8
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.SH NAME
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partition \- make a partition table
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B partition
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.RB [ \-mfn ]
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.I device
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[\fItype\fP:]\fIlength\fP[\fB+*\fP] ...
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.B Partition
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makes a partition table on
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.I device
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using the types and sizes given. It may be used in combination with
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.BR repartition (8)
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for automatic installation of MINIX 3.
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.PP
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You may give up to four \fItype\fP:\fIlength\fP[\fB+*\fP] specifications
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for the partitions. You may also specify holes before, between, and after
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the partitions. A hole differs from a partition specification by not having
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a type.
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.PP
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The first hole is by default 1 sector to make space for the primary
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bootstrap and the partition table. The other holes are 0.
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.PP
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The
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.I type
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field is the type of the partitition in hexadecimal. The
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.I length
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field is the partition's size in sectors. The
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.B +
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or
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.B *
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may optionally be added to indicate that the partition must be expanded
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to contain any leftover space on the device or to mark the partition active.
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.PP
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Instead of a length you may use the word
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.B exist
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to indicate that an existing partition of the given type must be kept
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from the old partition table.
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.PP
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Partitions are padded out to cylinder boundaries, except for the first one,
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it starts on track 1. Some operating systems care about this. MINIX 3 and
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MS-DOS do not.
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.SH OPTIONS
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.TP
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.B \-m
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MINIX 3 only, no need to pad partitions. This is the default for subpartition
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tables.
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.TP
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.B \-f
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Force making a partition table even if the device is too small.
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.TP
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.B \-n
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Play-act, don't write the new table, just show what it would look like.
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.SH EXAMPLE
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.B "partition /dev/hd0 01:16384 81:40000 81:2880* 06:20000+"
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.PP
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Partitions disk 0 into an 8 Mb DOS partition, 20 Mb MINIX 3 /usr, 1.44 Mb MINIX 3
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/ (active), and a DOS partition of at least 10 Mb at the end of the disk.
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(06:0+ would have been ok too, it's just a sanity check.)
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR hd (4),
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.BR part (8),
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.BR repartition (8).
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.SH AUTHOR
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Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)
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