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[unix-history] / usr / man / man8 / diskpart.8

diff --git a/usr/man/man8/diskpart.8 b/usr/man/man8/diskpart.8
index 957ef03..2a86be0 100644 (file)
--- a/usr/man/man8/diskpart.8
+++ b/usr/man/man8/diskpart.8
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-.TH DISKPART 8 "26 February 1983"
+.TH DISKPART 8 "18 July 1983"

 .UC 4
 .SH NAME
 diskpart \- calculate default disk partition sizes
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .UC 4
 .SH NAME
 diskpart \- calculate default disk partition sizes
 .SH SYNOPSIS

-.B diskpart
+.B /etc/diskpart

 [
 .B \-p
 ] [
 [
 .B \-p
 ] [


@@ -23,13 +23,16 @@ description file
 .I /etc/disktab
 is generated; c.f.
 .IR disktab (5).
 .I /etc/disktab
 is generated; c.f.
 .IR disktab (5).

-Space is always left in the last physical partition on the disk
-for a bad sector forwarding table.  The space reserved for this
-table occupies 3 tracks.  For more information, see 
+Space is always left in the last partition on the disk
+for a bad sector forwarding table.  The space reserved
+is one track for the replicated copies of the table and
+sufficient tracks to hold a pool of 126 sectors to which bad sectors
+are mapped.  For more information, see 

 .IR bad144 (8).
 .PP
 The disk partition sizes are based on the total amount of
 .IR bad144 (8).
 .PP
 The disk partition sizes are based on the total amount of

-space on the disk as give in the table below.  The `c' partition
+space on the disk as give in the table below (all values
+are supplied in units of 512 byte sectors).  The `c' partition

 is, by convention, used to access the entire physical disk, including
 the space reserved for the bad sector forwarding table.
 In normal operation, either the `g' partition is used, or the
 is, by convention, used to access the entire physical disk, including
 the space reserved for the bad sector forwarding table.
 In normal operation, either the `g' partition is used, or the


@@ -65,3 +68,5 @@ Certain default partition sizes are based on historical artifacts
 .PP
 When using the \-d flag, alternate disk names are not included
 in the output.
 .PP
 When using the \-d flag, alternate disk names are not included
 in the output.

+.PP
+Does not understand how to handle drives attached to a UDA50.