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authorchristos <christos@NetBSD.org>2011-07-25 16:31:05 +0000
committerchristos <christos@NetBSD.org>2011-07-25 16:31:05 +0000
commit3106d1923ebec71f321b4912e2bf7bb394d65975 (patch)
treecf04eaf9488a7e5915e7e67840f952c6b74f4b9c /sbin/disklabel
parentb80e6406b605c9b5aab2555b769bd7a65ba7b309 (diff)
mention that we don't handle more than 2TB disks/partitions.
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/disklabel')
-rw-r--r--sbin/disklabel/disklabel.815
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/disklabel/disklabel.8 b/sbin/disklabel/disklabel.8
index fb094a2e315..c1fa84c5af4 100644
--- a/sbin/disklabel/disklabel.8
+++ b/sbin/disklabel/disklabel.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: disklabel.8,v 1.62 2009/11/28 10:28:22 abs Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: disklabel.8,v 1.63 2011/07/25 16:31:05 christos Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1987, 1988, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
.\"
.\" @(#)disklabel.8 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/19/94
.\"
-.Dd November 28, 2009
+.Dd July 25, 2011
.Dt DISKLABEL 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -293,10 +293,21 @@ partition.
.Xr disktab 5 ,
.Xr dkctl 8 ,
.Xr fdisk 8 ,
+.Xr gpt 8 ,
.Xr installboot 8 ,
.Xr mbrlabel 8 ,
.Xr mscdlabel 8
.Sh BUGS
+.Pp
+The
+.Nm
+structure stored on disk cannot support partitions/disks greater than 2TB.
+Please use
+.Xr gpt 8 ,
+and
+.Xr dkctl 8
+to manage partitions and disks larger than 2TB.
+.Pp
If the disk partition is not specified in the disk name
(i.e.,
.Ar xy0