3 partition \- make a partition table
8 [\fItype\fP:]\fIlength\fP[\fB+*\fP] ...
11 makes a partition table on
13 using the types and sizes given. It may be used in combination with
15 for automatic installation of MINIX 3.
17 You may give up to four \fItype\fP:\fIlength\fP[\fB+*\fP] specifications
18 for the partitions. You may also specify holes before, between, and after
19 the partitions. A hole differs from a partition specification by not having
22 The first hole is by default 1 sector to make space for the primary
23 bootstrap and the partition table. The other holes are 0.
27 field is the type of the partitition in hexadecimal. The
29 field is the partition's size in sectors. The
33 may optionally be added to indicate that the partition must be expanded
34 to contain any leftover space on the device or to mark the partition active.
36 Instead of a length you may use the word
38 to indicate that an existing partition of the given type must be kept
39 from the old partition table.
41 Partitions are padded out to cylinder boundaries, except for the first one,
42 it starts on track 1. Some operating systems care about this. MINIX 3 and
47 MINIX 3 only, no need to pad partitions. This is the default for subpartition
51 Force making a partition table even if the device is too small.
54 Play-act, don't write the new table, just show what it would look like.
56 .B "partition /dev/hd0 01:16384 81:40000 81:2880* 06:20000+"
58 Partitions disk 0 into an 8 Mb DOS partition, 20 Mb MINIX 3 /usr, 1.44 Mb MINIX 3
59 / (active), and a DOS partition of at least 10 Mb at the end of the disk.
60 (06:0+ would have been ok too, it's just a sanity check.)
66 Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)