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26.Dd September 1, 2019
27.Dt EDAHDI 1 atari
28.Os
29.Sh NAME
30.Nm edahdi
31.Nd modify AHDI partition identifiers
32.Sh SYNOPSIS
33.Nm
34.Ar device
35.Sh DESCRIPTION
36.Nm
37allows you to modify the partition identifiers on a disk partitioned with
38AHDI or an AHDI compatible formatter.
39An AHDI partition format is usually only present on disks shared between
40.Nx
41and some other OS.
42The partition identifiers are used by
43.Nx
44as a guideline to emulate a disklabel on such a disk.
45.Pp
46.Nm
47supports the following options:
48.Bl -tag -width device
49.It Ar device
50The name of the raw device you want to edit.
51.El
52.Pp
53The following partition identifiers are recognized by
54.Nx :
55.Bl -tag -width "GEM or BGM" -compact
56.It NBD
57Partition is reserved for
58.Nx .
59This can be either a root or an user partition.
60The first NBD partition on a disk will be mapped to partition
61.Em a
62in
63.Nx .
64The following NBD partitions will be mapped from
65.Em d
66up.
67The filesystem type is ffs by default.
68.It SWP
69The first SWP partition is mapped to partition
70.Em b .
71.It GEM or BGM
72These partitions are mapped from
73.Em d
74up.
75The filesystem type is msdos.
76.It NBR
77.Nx
78root partition (deprecated).
79.It NBU
80.Nx
81user partition (deprecated).
82.It NBS
83.Nx
84swap partition (deprecated).
85.El
86.Sh EXAMPLES
87Say, you have a disk that is partitioned like:
88.Bl -column Number   Id
89.It Sy "Number" Ta Sy "Id"
90.It 1 Ta GEM
91.It 2 Ta GEM
92.It 3 Ta GEM
93.It 4 Ta GEM
94.El
95.Pp
96This partitioning will show up in
97.Nx
98as (Number refers to the first table):
99.Bl -column "c (whole disk)" "Fstype" "Number"
100.It Sy Partition Ta Sy Fstype Ta Sy Number
101.It c (whole disk) Ta unused Ta ""
102.It d (user part) Ta MSDOS Ta 1
103.It e (user part) Ta MSDOS Ta 2
104.It f (user part) Ta MSDOS Ta 3
105.It g (user part) Ta MSDOS Ta 4
106.El
107.Pp
108Now you decide to change the id of partition 2 and 3 to NBD.
109Now
110.Nx
111will show the partitioning as (Number refers to the first table):
112.Bl -column "c (whole disk)" "Fstype" "Number"
113.It Sy Partition Ta Sy Fstype Ta Sy Number
114.It a (root) Ta 4.2BSD Ta 2
115.It c (whole disk) Ta unused Ta ""
116.It d (user part)  Ta MSDOS  Ta 1
117.It e (user part)  Ta 4.2BSD Ta 3
118.It f (user part)  Ta MSDOS  Ta 4
119.El
120.Pp
121You will notice that the order of the partitions has changed! You will have
122to watchout for this.
123It is a consequence of
124.Nx
125habit of assigning a predefined meaning to the partitions
126.Em a/b
127and
128.Em c .
129.Sh SEE ALSO
130.Xr disklabel 8 ,
131.Xr installboot 8
132.Sh HISTORY
133The
134.Nm
135command first appeared in
136.Nx 1.2 .
137.Sh BUGS
138The changes made to the AHDI partitions will become active on the next
139.Em first open
140of the device.
141You are advised to use
142.Nm
143only on a device without any mounted or otherwise active partitions.
144This is not enforced by
145.Nm .
146This is particularly confusing when your change caused partitions to shift,
147as shown in the example above.
148.Pp
149As soon as a disk contains at least one NBD partition, you are allowed to
150write disklabels and install bootstraps.
151