From: Karel Zak Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2024 09:30:15 +0000 (+0200) Subject: blkdiscard: (man) add note about fdisk X-Git-Tag: v2.42-start~397^2 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=402039303605045642607984bfc5121a759306b4;p=thirdparty%2Futil-linux.git blkdiscard: (man) add note about fdisk Signed-off-by: Karel Zak --- diff --git a/sys-utils/blkdiscard.8.adoc b/sys-utils/blkdiscard.8.adoc index 578f300f7..cf661acd9 100644 --- a/sys-utils/blkdiscard.8.adoc +++ b/sys-utils/blkdiscard.8.adoc @@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ The _device_ argument is the pathname of the block device. *WARNING: All data in the discarded region on the device will be lost!* +Since util-linux v2.41, fdisk has the ability to discard sectors on both partitions and unpartitioned areas using the 'T' command. + == OPTIONS The _offset_ and _length_ arguments may be followed by the multiplicative suffixes KiB (=1024), MiB (=1024*1024), and so on for GiB, TiB, PiB, EiB, ZiB and YiB (the "iB" is optional, e.g., "K" has the same meaning as "KiB") or the suffixes KB (=1000), MB (=1000*1000), and so on for GB, TB, PB, EB, ZB and YB.