| 1 | .TH PARTITION 8
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| 2 | .SH NAME
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| 3 | partition \- make a partition table
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| 4 | .SH SYNOPSIS
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| 5 | .B partition
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| 6 | .RB [ \-mfn ]
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| 7 | .I device
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| 8 | [\fItype\fP:]\fIlength\fP[\fB+*\fP] ...
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| 9 | .SH DESCRIPTION
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| 10 | .B Partition
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| 11 | makes a partition table on
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| 12 | .I device
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| 13 | using the types and sizes given. It may be used in combination with
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| 14 | .BR repartition (8)
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| 15 | for automatic installation of MINIX 3.
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| 16 | .PP
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| 17 | You may give up to four \fItype\fP:\fIlength\fP[\fB+*\fP] specifications
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| 18 | for the partitions. You may also specify holes before, between, and after
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| 19 | the partitions. A hole differs from a partition specification by not having
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| 20 | a type.
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| 21 | .PP
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| 22 | The first hole is by default 1 sector to make space for the primary
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| 23 | bootstrap and the partition table. The other holes are 0.
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| 24 | .PP
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| 25 | The
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| 26 | .I type
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| 27 | field is the type of the partitition in hexadecimal. The
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| 28 | .I length
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| 29 | field is the partition's size in sectors. The
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| 30 | .B +
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| 31 | or
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| 32 | .B *
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| 33 | may optionally be added to indicate that the partition must be expanded
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| 34 | to contain any leftover space on the device or to mark the partition active.
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| 35 | .PP
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| 36 | Instead of a length you may use the word
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| 37 | .B exist
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| 38 | to indicate that an existing partition of the given type must be kept
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| 39 | from the old partition table.
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| 40 | .PP
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| 41 | Partitions are padded out to cylinder boundaries, except for the first one,
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| 42 | it starts on track 1. Some operating systems care about this. MINIX 3 and
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| 43 | MS-DOS do not.
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| 44 | .SH OPTIONS
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| 45 | .TP
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| 46 | .B \-m
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| 47 | MINIX 3 only, no need to pad partitions. This is the default for subpartition
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| 48 | tables.
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| 49 | .TP
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| 50 | .B \-f
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| 51 | Force making a partition table even if the device is too small.
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| 52 | .TP
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| 53 | .B \-n
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| 54 | Play-act, don't write the new table, just show what it would look like.
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| 55 | .SH EXAMPLE
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| 56 | .B "partition /dev/hd0 01:16384 81:40000 81:2880* 06:20000+"
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| 57 | .PP
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| 58 | Partitions disk 0 into an 8 Mb DOS partition, 20 Mb MINIX 3 /usr, 1.44 Mb MINIX 3
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| 59 | / (active), and a DOS partition of at least 10 Mb at the end of the disk.
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| 60 | (06:0+ would have been ok too, it's just a sanity check.)
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| 61 | .SH "SEE ALSO"
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| 62 | .BR hd (4),
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| 63 | .BR part (8),
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| 64 | .BR repartition (8).
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| 65 | .SH AUTHOR
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| 66 | Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)
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