From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 13:12:31 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: fdisk: add note about -S and -H
X-Git-Tag: v2.34-rc2~9
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b0eca21a5c97437be6f3fdc3521397a7f88959b5;p=thirdparty%2Futil-linux.git

fdisk: add note about -S and -H

It's seems people still follow old advices for SSD/4K devices. Let's
make CHS deprecation more visible at the begin of the man page...

Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/disk-utils/fdisk.8 b/disk-utils/fdisk.8
index 430c96c3d5..a674f9ee58 100644
--- a/disk-utils/fdisk.8
+++ b/disk-utils/fdisk.8
@@ -36,6 +36,10 @@ as the default values (e.g. first and last partition sectors) and partition
 sizes specified by the +/-<size>{M,G,...} notation are always aligned according
 to the device properties.
 
+CHS (Cylinder-Head-Sector) addressing is deprecated and not used by default.
+Please, do not follow old articles and recommendations with "fdisk -S <n> -H
+<n>" advices for SSD or 4K-sector devices.
+
 Note that
 .BR partx (8)
 provides a rich interface for scripts to print disk layouts,