Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2016 20:28:05 +0000 (UTC) From: Sevan Janiyan <sevan@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r306732 - head/sbin/fdisk_pc98 Message-ID: <201610052028.u95KS5Ln098552@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: sevan (doc committer) Date: Wed Oct 5 20:28:04 2016 New Revision: 306732 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/306732 Log: Document the history of fdisk based on the original post to comp.unix.bsd by Julian Elischer [1] and the Mach 2.5 Installation notes [2]. I was unable to pin point the exact version of Mach the fdisk utility appeared as I could not find documentation older than version 2.5 & no source code or repo history. fdisk utility appears as a separate utility[3] in v2.5. Due to this, I have avoided stating the exact version fdisk first appeared in Mach. Add authors section. [1] https://groups.google.com/d/topic/comp.unix.bsd/Hhi45vAHxDg/discussion [2] ftp://ftp.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/doc/misc/mach-i386-doc/i386_install.ps [3] ftp://ftp.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/doc/misc/mach-i386-doc/i386_manpages.ps PR: 212470 Approved by: bcr (mentor) MFC after: 5 days Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8104 Modified: head/sbin/fdisk_pc98/fdisk.8 Modified: head/sbin/fdisk_pc98/fdisk.8 ============================================================================== --- head/sbin/fdisk_pc98/fdisk.8 Wed Oct 5 20:21:06 2016 (r306731) +++ head/sbin/fdisk_pc98/fdisk.8 Wed Oct 5 20:28:04 2016 (r306732) @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd April 30, 2007 +.Dd October 5, 2016 .Dt FDISK 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -448,6 +448,21 @@ Example: to make slice 1 the active slic .Xr bsdlabel 8 , .Xr gpart 8 , .Xr newfs 8 +.Sh HISTORY +A version of +.Nm +first appeared in the Mach Operating System. +It was subsequently ported to +.Bx 386 . +.Sh AUTHORS +.An -nosplit +.Nm +for Mach Operating System was written by +.An Robert Baron Aq Mt rvb@cs.cmu.edu . +It was ported to +.Bx 386 +by +.An Julian Elischer Aq Mt julian@tfs.com . .Sh BUGS The default boot code will not necessarily handle all slice types correctly, in particular those introduced since
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