From: Karel Zak Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 12:51:40 +0000 (+0100) Subject: sfdisk: note about small partition in man page X-Git-Tag: v2.30-rc1~200 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=208b2ef0b6921898470acf3721329fd474098828;p=thirdparty%2Futil-linux.git sfdisk: note about small partition in man page Signed-off-by: Karel Zak --- diff --git a/disk-utils/sfdisk.8 b/disk-utils/sfdisk.8 index b72bb3217d..b67befc44f 100644 --- a/disk-utils/sfdisk.8 +++ b/disk-utils/sfdisk.8 @@ -47,8 +47,9 @@ The recommended way is not to specify start offsets at all and specify partition size in MiB, GiB (or so). In this case sfdisk align all partitions to block-device I/O limits (or when I/O limits are too small then to megabyte boundary to keep disk layout portable). If this default behaviour is unwanted -then specify offsets and sizes in sectors. In this case sfdisk entirely -follows specified numbers without any optimization. +(usually for very small partitions) then specify offsets and sizes in +sectors. In this case sfdisk entirely follows specified numbers without any +optimization. .sp .B sfdisk does not create the standard system partitions for SGI and SUN disk labels like