PART.8
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- .TH PART 8
- .SH NAME
- part - partition table editor
- .SH SYNOPSIS
- .B part
- .RI [ device "] ..."
- .SH DESCRIPTION
- .B Part
- is a screen oriented partition table editor.
- .PP
- While editing you will see six lines of numbers, the first line shows the
- device name and its geometry (number of cylinders, heads and sectors), the
- second shows the start and end of the drive or partition you are working on,
- the last four lines show the different partitions or subpartitions. All
- numbers except those on the second line can be edited. Question marks are
- showed instead of numbers if the partition table is not loaded yet. You
- have to select a device and type 'r'.
- .PP
- Editing is a simple matter of moving around with the arrow keys and changing
- the values with + and - (or PgUp and PgDn), or by typing the desired value.
- The '?' key will give a small list of commands, the '!' key gives advice on
- how to make a new entry.
- .PP
- The spacebar toggles between showing the size of the partition and the last
- sector on the partition. Useful to check if a partition is adjacent to the
- next.
- .PP
- The 'm' key is "magical", it lets you cycle through a set of interesting
- values for the base or size of a partition. These values are: Aligned to a
- cylinder, taped to other partitions (inside or outside), or filling out holes.
- .BR "Use this key" !
- .PP
- Minix subpartition tables or extended partitions may be edited after hitting
- the '>' key. The number of this partition will be shown after the device
- name on the second row, e.g.
- .BR /dev/hd0:2 .
- Minix subpartition tables are shown as is, but extended partition bases are
- translated to absolute offsets on the screen to hide the gory details of their
- implementation from the innocent user. (Hit 'p' if you dare.) The '<' key
- will bring you back to the enclosing partition table.
- .PP
- With arguments,
- .B part
- will use the given devices or files. Without arguments,
- .B part
- will use all interesting block devices in
- .B /dev
- sorted by device number and starting with
- .BR /dev/hd0 .
- .PP
- Values that are out of range, overlapping, or otherwise strange are shown in
- reverse video. Values that may possibly be a problem for operating systems
- other then Minix are shown in bold characters.
- .PP
- The name of the device is highlighted when it has not been read yet.
- .PP
- Head or sector numbers are highlighted if the partition does not start or
- end at a cylinder boundary.
- .PP
- The base and/or size field is highlighted if they fall outside the device,
- if they are inside some other partition, if the base equals the device's base
- (no room for the boot sector), or if the size is zero.
- .PP
- .B Part
- complies with the good old s-2UNIXs+2 tradition of trusting the user.
- It will write any table, no matter how bad. You have been warned.
- .PP
- By the way, as far as Minix is concerned there is absolutely no reason to
- make partitions start precisely on a cylinder or track nor does it have to
- be an exact number of cylinders long. Minix only looks at the base and size
- of a partition, the geometry of the drive doesn't have to be correct. Other
- Operating systems can be very picky about partitions that are not aligned.
- Some partition editors may refuse to edit a table, others may even make a
- mess of the table. The only exception is the first partition, it
- traditionally starts on the first track, not the first cylinder. All
- editors must understand this. (Subpartition tables are Minix specific, so
- there is no reason at all for any alignment.)
- .SS "Extended Partitions"
- Extended partitions are a mess that is only made slightly better by
- .B part
- by translating the base offsets to absolute numbers. It is better to use DOS
- .B fdisk
- to create them, but if you insist on using
- .B part
- then this is what they should look like:
- .RS
- .sp
- The extended partition entry in the primary partition table must cover the
- whole logical partition space within it.
- .sp
- The area thus created is split in segments, each segment contains a partition
- table in sector 0 and one (just one) logical partition.
- .sp
- The first entry of a segment's partition table describes this logical
- partition: it's partition ID, base and size.
- .sp
- The second entry is an extended partition that describes base and size of
- the next segment (partition table and logical partition). The last segment's
- partition table is empty, or contains one logical partition.
- .SH "SEE ALSO"
- .BR fd (4),
- .BR hd (4).
- .SH BUGS
- You can have a table read, messed up, and written in no time, be careful.
- .PP
- You can't type head or sector numbers directly.
- .PP
- Sectors are counted from 0 for consistency, but the partition table counts
- from 1 like DOS addresses them. Most confusing.
- .PP
- You can't write a backup copy to a file, that's what
- .BR dd (1)
- with count=1 is for.
- .SH AUTHOR
- Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)