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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:54:44 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:54:44 -0400 |
| commit | a9157ce950dfe2fc30795d43b9d79b9d1bffc48b (patch) | |
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| parent | 160aa82b2d39c46ad33723d7d909cb4972efbb03 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/static/openbsd/man5/disklabel.5 b/static/openbsd/man5/disklabel.5 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8c9cbe9a --- /dev/null +++ b/static/openbsd/man5/disklabel.5 @@ -0,0 +1,158 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: disklabel.5,v 1.22 2015/09/10 17:55:21 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: disklabel.5,v 1.3 1995/03/18 14:54:36 cgd Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1987, 1991, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by +.\" Symmetric Computer Systems. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)disklabel.5.5 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93 +.\" +.Dd $Mdocdate: September 10 2015 $ +.Dt DISKLABEL 5 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm disklabel +.Nd disk pack label +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.In sys/disklabel.h +.Sh DESCRIPTION +Each disk or disk pack on a system may contain a disk label +which provides detailed information +about the geometry of the disk and the partitions into which the disk +is divided. +It should be initialized when the disk is formatted, +and may be changed later with the +.Xr disklabel 8 +program. +This information is used by the system disk driver and by the bootstrap +program to determine how to program the drive +and where to find the filesystems on the disk partitions. +Additional information is used by the filesystem in order +to use the disk most efficiently and to locate important filesystem information. +The description of each partition contains an identifier for the partition +type (standard filesystem, swap area, etc.). +The filesystem updates the in-core copy of the label if it contains +incomplete information about the filesystem. +.Pp +The label is located in sector number +.Dv LABELSECTOR +of the drive, usually sector 0 where it may be found +without any information about the disk geometry. +It is at an offset +.Dv LABELOFFSET +from the beginning of the sector, to allow room for the initial bootstrap. +.Pp +A copy of the in-core label for a disk can be obtained with the +.Dv DIOCGDINFO +.Em ioctl ; +this works with a file descriptor for a block or character +.Pq Dq raw +device for any partition of the disk. +The in-core copy of the label is set by the +.Dv DIOCSDINFO +.Em ioctl . +The offset of a partition cannot generally be changed while it is open, +nor can it be made smaller while it is open. +One exception is that any change is allowed if no label was found +on the disk, and the driver was able to construct only a skeletal label +without partition information. +The +.Dv DIOCWDINFO +.Em ioctl +operation sets the in-core label and then updates the on-disk label; +there must be an existing label on the disk for this operation to succeed. +Thus, the initial label for a disk or disk pack must be installed +by writing to the raw disk. +The +.Dv DIOCGPDINFO +.Em ioctl +operation gets the default label for a disk. +This simulates the case +where there is no physical label on the disk itself and can be used to +see the label the kernel would construct in that case. +The +.Dv DIOCRLDINFO +.Em ioctl +operation causes the kernel to update its copy of the label based on the +physical label on the disk. +It can be used when the on-disk version +of the label was changed directly or, if there is no physical label, +to update the kernel's skeletal label if some variable affecting label +generation has changed (e.g. the fdisk partition table). +All of these operations are normally done using +.Xr disklabel 8 . +.Pp +Note that when a disk has no real +.Bx +disklabel the kernel creates a +default label so that the disk can be used. +This default label will include other partitions found on the disk if +they are supported on your architecture. +For example, on systems that support +.Xr fdisk 8 +partitions the default label will also include DOS and Linux partitions. +However, these entries are not dynamic, they are fixed at the time +.Xr disklabel 8 +is run. +That means that subsequent changes that affect +.Pf non- Ox +partitions will not be present in the default label, though you +may update them by hand. +To see the default label, run +.Xr disklabel 8 +with the +.Fl d +flag. +You can then run +.Xr disklabel 8 +with the +.Fl e +flag and paste any entries you want from the default label into the real +one. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr disktab 5 , +.Xr disklabel 8 +.Sh CAVEATS +.Nm +only supports up to a maximum of 15 partitions, +.Sq a +through +.Sq p , +excluding +.Sq c . +The +.Sq c +partition is reserved for the entire physical disk. +By convention, the +.Sq a +partition of the boot disk is the root partition, and the +.Sq b +partition of the boot disk is the swap partition, +but all other letters can be used in any order for any other +partitions as desired. |
