Re: [Gptfdisk-general] sgdisk: minor suggestions for manual page, and program

[Rod S. <rod...@ro...>]

On 6/8/21 6:29 PM, u3...@ne... wrote:
> Replying to myself because I had time to prepare a patch for the manual 
> page. Which is the simple work. In particular, because it doesn't address
> the code, that I hope will be written, for sgdisk --info=0.

Thanks for the patch. I've applied it and it's in the git repository now.

> At 2021-06-07 03:30:50, u3...@ne... wrote:
> 
>> Thank you for your work.
>>
>> 1) With some entries, such as for -N, --largest-new=num, the manual page 
>>    takes the burden of claryfing -a (--set-alignment). I suggest to take 
>>    the same approach for the references to the -A, -c, -t, and -u options 
>>    within the entry for -n, --new=partnum:start:end.
>>
> 
> The following patch fixes only the above long options issue.
> 
> --- a/gptfdisk-1.0.7/sgdisk.8	2021-03-11 00:45:56.000000000 +0000
> +++ b/gptfdisk-1.0.7/sgdisk.8	2021-06-08 21:49:17.679338911 +0000
> @@ -339,7 +339,8 @@
>  start of the largest available block for the start sector and the end of
>  the same block for the end sector. A partnum value of 0 causes the program
>  to use the first available partition number. Subsequent uses of the
> -\fI\-A\fR, \fI\-c\fR, \fI\-t\fR, and \fI\-u\fR options may also use
> +\fI\-A\fR (\fI\-\-attributes\fR), \fI\-c\fR (\fI\-\-change\-name\fR), \fI\-t\fR
> +(\fI\-\-typecode\fR), and \fI\-u\fR (\fI\-\-partition\-guid\fR) options may also use
>  \fI0\fR to refer to the same partition.
>  
>  .TP
> 
> --
> u34
> 
>> 2) For the special partnum of 0, --info=0 will show detailed information 
>>    about what -n, --new=partnum:start:end will do with 0 partnum, and a  
>>    0 start value.
>>
>> --
>> u34
>>
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