Mac OS X Tiger in a Nutshell

Name

fdisk

Synopsis

fdisk [-t | -d | -e | -u | -S integer | -c integer -h integer -s integer] [device]
fdisk -i [-a { boothfs | bootufs | hfs | ufs | dos | raid } | -f filename | -r] [-y] device

Description

Provides control over DOS partition tables on disk devices in Darwin x86 systems. If invoked without arguments, fdisk prints a usage statement to standard error. If invoked with only a device name as an argument, it displays the device’s partition table.

Options

-a

Partitions the disk according to the specified automatic style. The boothfs and bootufs styles each include an 8 MB boot partition, with the remainder formatted as the specified type. The hfs, ufs, dos, and raid styles each create a single partition of the specified type, which spans the entire disk. The default is boothfs.

-c

Forces an assumption of a disk geometry with the specified number of cylinders.

-d

Displays the disk’s partition table, in a format usable with -r.

-e

Enters an interactive edit mode. Commands available in this mode are listed in the “Commands” section.

-f

Specifies a template file to use in creating the partition table.

-h

Forces an assumption of a disk geometry with the specified number of heads.

-i

Initializes the Master Boot Record (MBR) on the disk, which contains the partition table.

-r

Reads in a new set of partition entries from standard input.

-s

Forces an assumption of a disk geometry with the specified number of sectors per track.

-S

Specifies the disk’s size, in blocks.

-t

Tests whether ...