AMIGA-FDISK(8)

💖 AMIGA-FDISK(8) 💖

okay so bestie, quick vibe check: this is amiga-fdisk, the Amiga disk partitioning program, and she lives in the System Manager's Manual (section 8, admin girlies only). 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

amiga-fdisk [ -l ] [ -v ] device

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So amiga-fdisk is the program you use to partition harddisks under Linux/m68k. She takes command line parameters that are basically the same energy as the PC fdisk program's, no cap — and she operates on the disk that's associated with device. 💅

And when you're in interactive mode? She behaves similarly to fdisk too. Like, same vibe, different architecture. iykyk. ✨

🦋 OPTIONS 🦋

• -l — list the partition tables of all disks. And the moment you pass this flag, interactive mode is not entered — she's just here to show you the tea and dip. 🫶
• -v — show the version of the program. That's it, that's the whole thing, she's just telling you who she is. 👑

💀 BUGS 💀

ngl, some things are still under construction, and we're being honest about it:

• Many of the command line options you know from fdisk have not been implemented yet. So if you go looking for them, bestie… they're not there. 😭
• Using amiga-fdisk on large harddisks (like larger than 2 GB) consumes lots of memory, because right now the program tries to read in the entire RDB blocks — which can be several MB if the (reported) geometry of the disk says so. And just so you know: the RDB occupies the first two cylinders of the disk. So yeah. She's eating RAM for breakfast. 🍓
• The whole thing about interactive usage of amiga-fdisk in this manpage still has to be written. Not me leaving the homework for later 💀🙈

fr fr: none of these are cute little quirks, they're real limitations. Plan accordingly. 🧚

💜 AUTHORS 💜

• Stefan Reinauer <stepan@linux.de> — (author) 👑
• Frank Neumann <Frank.Neumann@Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> — (manpage) 🎀

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🌈 this was AMIGA-FDISK(8), straight outta the System Manager's Manual — go partition something responsibly, mwah 💖⭐🦋