FDISK(8)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay bestie, welcome to the FDISK(8) page 💖 this one's about acorn-fdisk — a partition editor for Acorn/RISC OS machines. periodt.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

like, here's the whole vibe, verbatim, no cap:

acorn-fdisk -h | --help | -v | --version

acorn-fdisk [-t scheme | --type scheme] -l | --list [device ...]

acorn-fdisk [-t scheme | --type scheme] -s | --size partition

acorn-fdisk [-t scheme | --type scheme] [device]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so the acorn-fdisk utility lets you display or interactively edit partition tables for Acorn/RISC OS machines, in a bunch of different formats 🎀 and if you're on the PC/BIOS format, you can also get at standard IBM PC (i386) partition tables. iconic behaviour honestly.

and if you don't hand it an optional device? it just defaults to /dev/hda or /dev/sda. she's got a fave, we respect it 💅

🍓 The options, bestie

• -h, --help — shows you a short usage thing and dips immediately. short king energy.
• -l, --list — displays the partition table(s) of all the devices. all of them. every single one.
• -s, --size — displays the size of partition.
• -t, --type — picks the partitioning scheme you wanna use. the valid schemes are, and I'm listing every single one because I don't gatekeep:
  • EESOX — Eesox SCSI on the Acorn machines. 🧚
  • ICSIDEFS — ICS IDE.
  • Filecore/Linux — Linux on Filecore. this one uses the non-ADFS descriptor to point to the start of the disc that's gonna be partitioned. the first two sectors contain a partition table that identifies the Linux partitions contained within. iykyk.
  • PC/BIOS — the PC/BIOS partitioning scheme. it's a partition table sitting in the first sector of the disk, and it's got both CHS and LBA values for the partitions. there can be up to four entries in the primary partition table, and one of those can be an extended partition containing up to four extra partitions. so many little guys.
  • PowerTec — PowerTec SCSI on the Acorn machines.
  • Filecore/RISCiX — RiscIX on Filecore.
• -v, --version — displays the version of acorn-fdisk and exits immediately. bye bestie 🫶

and here's the tea: if you give her neither -l | --list nor -s | --size? then the partition table of the device you gave her gets edited interactively. main character mode: activated 👑

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🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

display the default device's partition table on a PC:

acorn-fdisk --type PC/BIOS -l

display the PC partition table of /dev/sda:

acorn-fdisk --type PC/BIOS --list /dev/sda

display the size in blocks of the partition /dev/sda1:

acorn-fdisk --type PC/BIOS --size /dev/sda1

edit the MBR partition table interactively:

acorn-fdisk --type PC/BIOS

display the partition table of an MBR backed up to a file:

acorn-fdisk -t PC/BIOS -l mbrdump.bin

display the size of the first partition on a device where the MBR would be restored from the backup file mbrdump.bin:

acorn-fdisk -t PC/BIOS -s mbrdump.bin1

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💜 AUTHORS 💜

arm-fdisk was written by Russell King <rmk@arm.uk.linux.org>, based on util-linux fdisk, which was written at least partially by A. V. Le Blanc <LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk>. legends, honestly.

this manual page was written for the Debian system by Thorsten Glaser <tg@debian.org> — but it may be used by others, so like, share the wealth 💖

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and that's the whole page bestie 🎀 go forth and partition responsibly, no cap.

and yeah, this one's from the Debian crew, dated October 2, 2010, and it lives at the very bottom of FDISK(8) like the little signature it is ✨ slay 💅🌸