amiga-fdisk(8) [debian man page]

AMIGA-FDISK(8)						      System Manager's Manual						    AMIGA-FDISK(8)

NAME

       amiga-fdisk - Amiga disk partitioning program

SYNOPSIS

       amiga-fdisk [ -l ] [ -v ] device

DESCRIPTION

       amiga-fdisk is a program to partition harddisks under Linux/m68k. It uses command line parameters similar to those of the PC fdisk program,
       and operates on the disk associated with device.  In interactive mode, it behaves similarly to the fdisk program.

OPTIONS

       -l     List partition tables of all disks. If this flag is given, interactive mode isn't entered.

       -v     Show version of the program.

BUGS

       Many of the command line options known from fdisk have not been implemented yet.

       Using amiga-fdisk on large harddisks (like larger than 2 GB) consumes lots of memory, as the program currently tries to read in the  entire
       RDB blocks - which can be several MB if the (reported) geometry of the disk says so (the RDB occupies the first two cylinders of the disk).

       The whole stuff about interactive usage of amiga-fdisk in this manpage still has to be written.

AUTHORS

       Stefan Reinauer <stepan@linux.de> (author)

       Frank Neumann <Frank.Neumann@Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> (manpage)

																    AMIGA-FDISK(8)

cmdk(7D)							      Devices								  cmdk(7D)

NAME

       cmdk - common disk driver

SYNOPSIS

       cmdk@target, lun : [ partition | slice ]

DESCRIPTION

       The  cmdk  device  driver  is  a  common interface to various disk devices. The driver supports magnetic fixed disks and magnetic removable
       disks.

       The cmdk device driver supports three different disk labels: fdisk partition table, Solaris x86 VTOC and EFI/GPT.

       The block-files access the disk using the system's normal buffering mechanism and are read and written  without	regard	to  physical  disk
       records. There is also a "raw" interface that provides for direct transmission between the disk and the user's read or write buffer. A sin-
       gle read or write call usually results in one I/O operation; raw I/O is therefore considerably more efficient when many bytes are transmit-
       ted. The names of the block files are found in /dev/dsk. Raw file names are found in /dev/rdsk.

       I/O  requests  to the magnetic disk must have an offset and transfer length that is a multiple of 512 bytes or the driver returns an EINVAL
       error.

       Slice 0 is normally used for the root file system on a disk, slice 1 as a paging area (for example, swap), and slice 2 for backing  up  the
       entire fdisk partition for Solaris software. Other slices may be used for usr file systems or system reserved area.

       The fdisk partition 0 is to access the entire disk and is generally used by the fdisk(1M) program.

FILES

       /dev/dsk/cndn[s|p]n	 block device (IDE)

       /dev/rdsk/cndn[s|p]n	 raw device (IDE)

				 where:

				 cn    controller n.

				 dn    lun n (0-1).

				 sn    UNIX system slice n (0-15).

				 pn    fdisk partition (0-36).

       /kernel/drv/cmdk 	 32-bit kernel module.

       /kernel/drv/amd64/cmdk	 64-bit kernel module.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Architecture		     |x86			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       fdisk(1M), mount(1M), lseek(2), read(2), write(2), readdir(3C), scsi(4), vfstab(4), attributes(5), dkio(7I)

SunOS 5.11							    4 Nov 2008								  cmdk(7D)