Allow size values to be displayed in the user's choice of units.
Idea borrowed from disklabel. i.e. Users can now type "print M"
and be rewarded with partition sizes in Megs

Add disklabel-style editing for size/offset values in
the partition tables. These values may now contain units,
such as "300k" "500M" or "2G".
(sectors, bytes, and cylinders are also supported.)
This

Add disklabel-style editing for size/offset values in
the partition tables. These values may now contain units,
such as "300k" "500M" or "2G".
(sectors, bytes, and cylinders are also supported.)
This should largely eliminate the need for a calculator
when using fdisk on large disks.

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More -Wall cleanup. Ansi style nit.

New command "setpid", just changes the ID of a partition (no other
parameters editing) -- vassilip@dsl.cis.upenn.edu

be more verbose when warning for partition errors,
print partition number in the message.

Favor BIOS geometry over physical. This should fix MANY problems with
hard drives >8G sharing partitions with other operating systems.
Also, support extended partition type 0x0F, which is quite commo

Favor BIOS geometry over physical. This should fix MANY problems with
hard drives >8G sharing partitions with other operating systems.
Also, support extended partition type 0x0F, which is quite common now.

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Max Sectors is 63. ok weingart@

support LBA-mapped extended partitions too; sigh@kuzirabekon.econ.nagasaki-u.ac.jp

MIPS boxes that use fdisk need an MS-DOS partition

Handle PAGER in a manner consistent with the Single Unix Specification:
that is, use PAGER rather than "more" if it is defined and non-null, not
just if it is defined.

Since on the powerpc, the system does not supply the user with
bios valid cyl,head,sector information (the information comes from the
sd driver) I have made some changes to fdisk to do the following.

Since on the powerpc, the system does not supply the user with
bios valid cyl,head,sector information (the information comes from the
sd driver) I have made some changes to fdisk to do the following.

Allow the powerpc to specify values larger than the bios limits.

All platforms now have code that will translate the LBA values
in the mbr into CHS values according to the disk geometry.
This occurs if the start and ending CHS values have been stored as
0xffffff.

If writing to the disk and one of the values of a partition violates
the bios limits, it writes the requested values in the LBA fields ,
and stores 0xffffff for the starting and ending CHS values.

This should not change the default formatting of any existing system
other than the CHS and LBA values should always match given the detected
geometry of the disk.

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For powerpc's we want to keep the preinstalled msdos partition in the init
MBR when doing a 'fdisk -i'. That is because the msdos partition is used
for booting. The OpenBSD part (part 3) is set up to

For powerpc's we want to keep the preinstalled msdos partition in the init
MBR when doing a 'fdisk -i'. That is because the msdos partition is used
for booting. The OpenBSD part (part 3) is set up to be the rest of the
disk. Also the msdos partition is set as the 'active' partition.

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Include signal.h so that it compiles.

protect against SIGPIPE

fix maximal cyl/heads; vons@usa.net

swap exit and quit

make fdisk grok extended partitions again. we have to keep track of the
absolute offset of the current mbr and its relative position. because:
the starting sector of the first mbr entry in an extende

make fdisk grok extended partitions again. we have to keep track of the
absolute offset of the current mbr and its relative position. because:
the starting sector of the first mbr entry in an extended partition is relative
to the starting offset of the whole mbr itself. the starting offset of a new
extended partition is relative to the offset of the very first extended
partition.

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when we reinit, show what we did

spelling

clarify

indent

for p, print disk info too

constrain edit mode to size of BIOS part of disk; sorry

new command: manual

a bunch of improvements by weingart & I