NAME

       acorn-fdisk — partition editor for Acorn/RISC OS machines

SYNOPSIS

       acorn-fdisk -h | --help | -v | --version

       acorn-fdisk [-t scheme | --type scheme] -l | --list [device ...]

       acorn-fdisk [-t scheme | --type scheme] -s | --size partition

       acorn-fdisk [-t scheme | --type scheme] [device]

DESCRIPTION

       The  acorn-fdisk  utility  allows one to display or interactively edit partition tables for Acorn/RISC OS
       machines in various formats.  Using the PC/BIOS format, standard IBM PC (i386) partition tables can  also
       be accessed.  When no optional device is given, it defaults to /dev/hda or /dev/sda.

       The options are as follows:

       -h | --help  Display a short usage and exit immediately.

       -l | --list  Display the partition table(s) of all devices.

       -s | --size  Display the size of partition.

       -t | --type  Select the partitioning scheme to use.  Valid schemes are:

                    EESOX            Eesox SCSI on the Acorn machines.

                    ICSIDEFS         ICS IDE.

                    Filecore/Linux   Linux on Filecore.  This uses the non-ADFS descriptor to point to the start
                                     of  the  disc to be partitioned.  The first two sectors contain a partition
                                     table to identify the Linux partitions contained within.

                    PC/BIOS          PC/BIOS partitioning scheme.  This consists of a  partition  table  in  the
                                     first  sector  of  the  disk which contains both CHS and LBA values for the
                                     partitions.  There can be up to  four  entries  in  the  primary  partition
                                     table.   One  of  these  can be an extended partition containing up to four
                                     extra partitions.

                    PowerTec         PowerTec SCSI on the Acorn machines.

                    Filecore/RISCiX  RiscIX on Filecore.

       -v | --version
                    Display the version of acorn-fdisk and exit immediately.

       If neither -l | --list or -s | --size are given, the partition table of the given device will  be  edited
       interactively.

EXAMPLES

       Display the default device's partition table on a PC:

             acorn-fdisk --type PC/BIOS -l

       Display the PC partition table of /dev/sda:

             acorn-fdisk --type PC/BIOS --list /dev/sda

       Display the size in blocks of the partition /dev/sda1:

             acorn-fdisk --type PC/BIOS --size /dev/sda1

       Edit the MBR partition table interactively:

             acorn-fdisk --type PC/BIOS

       Display the partition table of an MBR backed up to a file:

             acorn-fdisk -t PC/BIOS -l mbrdump.bin

       Display  the size of the first partition on a device where the MBR would be restored from the backup file
       mbrdump.bin:

             acorn-fdisk -t PC/BIOS -s mbrdump.bin1

AUTHORS

       arm-fdisk was written by Russell King <rmk@arm.uk.linux.org> based on util-linux fdisk, which was written
       at least partially by
       A. V. Le Blanc <LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk>.

       This manual page was written for the Debian system by
       Thorsten Glaser <tg@debian.org> but may be used by others.

Debian                                           October 2, 2010                                        FDISK(8)