svn commit: r306732 - head/sbin/fdisk_pc98

Sevan Janiyan sevan at FreeBSD.org
Wed Oct 5 20:28:06 UTC 2016


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 at cs.cmu.edu .
+It was ported to
+.Bx 386
+by
+.An Julian Elischer Aq Mt julian at 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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