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>

diff --git a/disk-utils/fdisk.8 b/disk-utils/fdisk.8
index 430c96c3d587d75fbf4b7974d85ccf10eb0e28d4..a674f9ee581d7f40ee71bac89f975538b3eb5f2e 100644 (file)
--- 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,