NAME¶
acorn-fdisk
—
partition editor for Acorn/RISC OS machines
SYNOPSIS¶
acorn-fdisk |
-h |
--help |
-v |
--version |
acorn-fdisk |
[ -t
scheme |
--type
scheme ]
-l |
--list
[device ... ] |
acorn-fdisk |
[ -t
scheme |
--type
scheme ]
-s |
--size
partition |
acorn-fdisk |
[ -t
scheme |
--type
scheme ]
[device ] |
DESCRIPTION¶
The
acorn-fdisk
utility allows one to display
or interactively edit partition tables for Acorn/RISC OS machines in various
formats. Using the
PC/BIOS
format, standard
IBM PC (i386) partition tables can also be accessed. When no optional
device is given, it defaults to
/dev/hda or
/dev/sda.
The options are as follows:
-h
| --help
- Display a short usage and exit immediately.
-l
| --list
- Display the partition table(s) of all
devices.
-s
| --size
- Display the size of partition.
-t
| --type
- Select the partitioning scheme to use. Valid schemes are:
- EESOX
- Eesox SCSI on the Acorn machines.
- ICSIDEFS
- ICS IDE.
- Filecore/Linux
- Linux on Filecore. This uses the non-ADFS descriptor to point to the
start of the disc to be partitioned. The first two sectors contain a
partition table to identify the Linux partitions contained
within.
- PC/BIOS
- PC/BIOS partitioning scheme. This consists of a partition table in the
first sector of the disk which contains both CHS and LBA values for
the partitions. There can be up to four entries in the primary
partition table. One of these can be an extended partition containing
up to four extra partitions.
- PowerTec
- PowerTec SCSI on the Acorn machines.
- Filecore/RISCiX
- RiscIX on Filecore.
-v
| --version
- Display the version of
acorn-fdisk
and
exit immediately.
If neither
-l
|
--list
or
-s
|
--size
are given, the partition table of
the given
device will be edited
interactively.
EXAMPLES¶
Display the default device's partition table on a PC:
acorn-fdisk
--type
PC/BIOS
-l
Display the PC partition table of
/dev/sda:
acorn-fdisk
--type
PC/BIOS
--list
/dev/sda
Display the size in blocks of the partition
/dev/sda1:
acorn-fdisk
--type
PC/BIOS
--size
/dev/sda1
Edit the MBR partition table interactively:
acorn-fdisk
--type
PC/BIOS
Display the partition table of an MBR backed up to a file:
acorn-fdisk
-t
PC/BIOS
-l
mbrdump.bin
Display the size of the first partition on a device where the MBR would be
restored from the backup file
mbrdump.bin:
acorn-fdisk
-t
PC/BIOS
-s
mbrdump.bin1
AUTHORS¶
arm-fdisk
was written by
Russell King
⟨rmk@arm.uk.linux.org⟩ based on util-linux
fdisk
, which was written at least partially
by
A. V. Le Blanc
⟨LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk⟩.
This manual page was written for the Debian system by
Thorsten Glaser ⟨tg@debian.org⟩
but may be used by others.