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38.Dd July 29, 2000
39.Dt AHDILABEL 8 atari
40.Os
41.Sh NAME
42.Nm ahdilabel
43.Nd modify AHDI partitions
44.Sh SYNOPSIS
45.Nm
46.Ar disk
47.Sh DESCRIPTION
48.Nm
49allows you to modify the AHDI partition table on a disk partitioned with
50AHDI or an AHDI compatible formatter.  The AHDI partition format is usually
51only present on disks shared between
52.Nx
53and some other OS. The partition identifiers are used by
54.Nx
55as a guideline to emulate a disklabel on such a disk.
56.Pp
57.Nm
58supports the following options:
59.Pp
60.Bl -tag -width disk
61.It Ar disk
62The name of the disk you want to edit.
63.Nm
64will first try to open a disk of this name.  If this cannot
65be opened, it will attempt to open
66.Ar r Ns <disk> Ns Ar c .
67Finally, if this also cannot be opened, it will attempt to open
68.Ar /dev/r Ns <disk> Ns Ar c .
69.El
70.Pp
71.Nm
72will display information about the number of sectors, tracks
73and sectors on the disk, as well as the current AHDI partition information.
74It will then prompt for input.  The input choices are:
75.Pp
76.Bl -tag -width a-p
77.It Ar a-p
78Modify a partition.  You will be prompted for a partition id, root, start
79and size.
80.Nx
81recognises the following partition id's:
82.Pp
83.Bl -tag -width "GEM or BGM" -compact
84.It NBD
85Partition is reserved for
86.Nx .
87This can be either a root or an user partition. The first NBD
88partition on a disk will be mapped to
89.Nx partition
90letter
91.Em a .
92The following NBD partitions will be mapped from letter
93.Em d
94up.
95The filesystem type is ffs by default.
96.It SWP
97The first SWP partition is mapped to partition
98.Em b .
99.It GEM or BGM
100These partitions are mapped from
101.Em d
102up. The filesystem type is msdos.
103.El
104.Pp
105The root, start and size parameters can be entered using sector,
106cylinder/track/sector or megabyte notations.  Whole numbers of cylinders can
107be entered using the shorthand <cylinder>/.  Likewise, whole numbers of tracks
108can be entered using the shorthand <cylinder>/<track>/.  Megabytes are entered
109using the suffix
110.Em M .
111.Pp
112The following can also be used to enter partition parameters:
113.Pp
114.Bl -tag -width "-N (start)" -compact
115.It \-N (root)
116Position the root sector for this partition immediately after partition N.
117.It \-N (start)
118Make this partition start after partition N (leaving a gap of 1 sector for a
119root sector, if necessary).
120.It \-N (size)
121Make this partition end immediately before partition N.
122.It -1 (size)
123Make this partition extend to the end of the disk.
124.El
125.Pp
126The sector holding the primary AHDI partition table only has space for four
127partitions.  Thus, if a disk has more than four partitions, the extra
128partition information is held in auxiliary root sectors.  There is one
129auxiliary root for each additional partition (and also for the fourth
130partition, if the disk has more than four partitions).
131.It Ar r
132Recalculate the root sectors.  This will automatically assign auxiliary
133root sectors if the disk has more than 4 partitions.  The auxiliary root
134sectors will be positioned in a default location preceding the relevant
135partition.
136.It Ar s
137Show the current partition information.
138.It Ar u
139Toggle the unit display between sector and cylinder/track/sector notation.
140.It Ar w
141Write the AHDI partition table to the disk.
142.It Ar z
143Options for zero'ing the boot sector and bad sector lists.  The default is to
144preserve them both.
145.It Ar q
146Quit
147.El
148.Sh EXAMPLES
149.Dl ahdilabel sd0
150Edit the AHDI label for disk sd0.
151.Sh BUGS
152The changes made to the AHDI partitions will become active on the next
153.Em first open
154of the disk. You are advised to use
155.Nm
156only on a disk without any mounted or otherwise active partitions. This
157is not enforced by
158.Nm "" .
159.Pp
160Because of way
161.Nx
162interprets AHDI partition tables to create the
163.Nx
164disklabel, the
165.Nx
166partition ordering may change if partitions labelled NBD are created or
167removed.
168.Pp
169Creating an AHDI partition table on a disk that previously did not have
170one will almost certainly overwrite any existing partition information
171and/or data on that disk.  This is especially the case if auxiliary root
172sectors are needed for the AHDI partition table.
173.Pp
174As soon as a disk contains at least one NBD partition, you are allowed to
175write
176.Nx
177disklabels and install bootstraps.
178.Sh SEE ALSO
179.Xr bootpref 8 ,
180.Xr disklabel 8 ,
181.Xr installboot 8
182.Sh HISTORY
183The
184.Nm
185command first appeared in
186.Nx 1.5 .
187