Author: sevan (doc committer) Date: Wed Oct 5 20:21:06 2016 New Revision: 306731 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/306731
Log: Document the history of fdisk based on the original post to comp.unix.bsd by Julian Elischer [1] and the Mach 2.5 Installation notes [2]. I was unable to pin point the exact version of Mach the fdisk utility appeared as I could not find documentation older than version 2.5 & no source code or repo history. fdisk utility appears as a separate utility[3] in v2.5. Due to this, I have avoided stating the exact version fdisk first appeared in Mach. Add authors section. Make correction pointed by igor [1] https://groups.google.com/d/topic/comp.unix.bsd/Hhi45vAHxDg/discussion [2] ftp://ftp.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/doc/misc/mach-i386-doc/i386_install.ps [3] ftp://ftp.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/doc/misc/mach-i386-doc/i386_manpages.ps PR: 212469 Approved by: bcr (mentor) MFC after: 5 days Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8104 Modified: head/sbin/fdisk/fdisk.8 Modified: head/sbin/fdisk/fdisk.8 ============================================================================== --- head/sbin/fdisk/fdisk.8 Wed Oct 5 20:18:17 2016 (r306730) +++ head/sbin/fdisk/fdisk.8 Wed Oct 5 20:21:06 2016 (r306731) @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd October 1, 2013 +.Dd October 5, 2016 .Dt FDISK 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -177,19 +177,19 @@ An example follows: Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) - start 495, size 380160 (185 Meg), flag 0 + start 495, size 380160 (185 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 1/ sector 1/ head 0; end: cyl 768/ sector 33/ head 14 The data for partition 2 is: sysid 164,(unknown) - start 378180, size 2475 (1 Meg), flag 0 + start 378180, size 2475 (1 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 764/ sector 1/ head 0; end: cyl 768/ sector 33/ head 14 The data for partition 3 is: <UNUSED> The data for partition 4 is: sysid 99,(ISC UNIX, other System V/386, GNU HURD or Mach) - start 380656, size 224234 (109 Meg), flag 80 + start 380656, size 224234 (109 Meg), flag 80 beg: cyl 769/ sector 2/ head 0; end: cyl 197/ sector 33/ head 14 .Ed @@ -485,6 +485,21 @@ The default boot code. .Xr bsdlabel 8 , .Xr gpart 8 , .Xr newfs 8 +.Sh HISTORY +A version of +.Nm +first appeared in the Mach Operating System. +It was subsequently ported to +.Bx 386 . +.Sh AUTHORS +.An -nosplit +.Nm +for Mach Operating System was written by +.An Robert Baron Aq Mt r...@cs.cmu.edu . +It was ported to +.Bx 386 +by +.An Julian Elischer Aq Mt jul...@tfs.com . .Sh BUGS The default boot code will not necessarily handle all slice types correctly, in particular those introduced since _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
