gpt.8: fix grammar in a sentence

Apply patch from Thierry Laronde: add missing suffixes for size values
and clarify that they are case independant.

gpt.8: fix some grammar

(The BUGS section seems perhaps a little outdated in its warnings of
potential incompatible changes.)

gpt.8: drop cross-reference to cvs(1)

It's no more useful to reference cvs(1) than, say, openssl(1), and
should be self-evident, anyway.

branches: 1.76.2;

Note that biosboot without -A clears the PMBR "active" flag.
While here, fix some grammar and make the selection options
for biosboot a little clearer.

Ride nia@'s Dd bump.

gpt.8: Clarify that "windows" partition types are also used for FAT32
("msdos" in NetBSD terms), and UDF partitions. Use the same name as
Wikipedia, "Microsoft basic data".

catch up with source rename of fbsd-zfs -> zfs

Fix typo in macro. Sort option descriptions.

Add -H flag to ignore existing MBR (Hybrid MBR/GPT mode).

Exit gracefully when auto-expanding a partition and it is already the
correct size. Add a -q flag to "resize" and "resizedisk" commands to skip
printing warnings in the already resize paths.

Remove outdated note about sysinst restrictions

Add an "uuid" command to generate a new UUID for a portion. The
primary intention is for use for after cloning disks to prevent
collisions.

Allow specifying the partition via -b startsec for the biosboot cmd.

Allow -b to specify a partition for "gpt unset" as well.

Allow -b startsec to specify the partition to change for the set subcommand
as well.
Add another option, -N, as a quick way to remove all attributes.

Make the "show" subcommand accept -b startsec to identify a partition
(very usefull for scripts and other robotic callers).

Add support for specifying the partition to resize via -b startsec
(similar to label and other subcommands). Do not fully add gpt_find
functionality here, as resizing multiple partitions in one go does not
make sense.

branches: 1.63.2;

Spello. (it is "existence").

ispell also says that we should s/parseable/parsable/ but I'm
not sure about that one, so I left it.

I also left a correct spelling that no-one has bothered to mangle!

Bump date for new EXIT STATUS section.

Sort sections.

Make the "gpt header" command return EXIT_FAILURE when no GPT is present.
This helps sysinst to tell a GPT labeled disk from others.
Very lazy version of a change proposed by kre.

add information about how to boot from gpt. mostly taken from the wiki.

Check device parameter to avoid segfaults. Agument synopsis for -l option.

branches: 1.57.2;
Explain what suffixes are accepted when specifying a size.

clarify that alignment is the number of bytes to align to.

Use Fx/Nx.

Fix a typo, and make a couple of minor wording improvements.
I resisted the (very weak) impulse to Americanise some spellings ...

Add note about bootme flag:

The bootme flag is used to indicate which partiotion should be booted
by UEFI boot code.

branches: 1.52.4;
Add -T timestamp for reproducible builds.

Fix spelling of partition.

branches: 1.50.2;
remove dup line

Document the version gpt first appeared.
Replace contractions.
Bump date.

branches: 1.48.2;
Rename 'a' to set the active PMBR flag to 'A'

Fix rendering of biosboot command synopsis.

PR/51230: Add the ability to set the active flag in the PMBR.

Simplify usage for gpt show.

Add a -a flag to the show command, so we can display the full GPT with
all information in one go.

Bump date for previous.
Remove trailing whitespace.

Add listing commands for type, set and unset.
Add help and formatting for set and unset.
Change show to print all the attribute info in one line.

Allow backup and restore to operate on files.

Reflect reality better; we don't handle multiple devices anymore, and
the partitions option is only for the commands that support it.

Firs step of refactoring, remove all globals, factor out some common code,
handle alternate usage but not advertise it.

- automatically sync the wedge information unless -n is specified.
- document the general options in the traditional way.
- split the main program into a separate file.

Add a "header" subcommand that displays information about the size of
the disk along with information from the GPT header if it exists.

Bump date for previous.

Add some more common partition types.

Remove trailing whitespace.

Allow specifying sector and media size on the command line.

PR/47990 - Dr. Wolfgang Stukenbrock -- add "-L <label>" as selector option

PR/44218 - David Young -- add "type" subcommand to change a partition type

- make gpt_gpt() available for use directly by subcommands
- create new resizedisk disk subcommand for relocating backup GPT

document the new restore subcommand

branches: 1.28.4;
Bump date for previous.

Add the backup subcommand. It dumps the contents of the partition
tables as a plist, which is readable by the restore subcommand.

XXX restore subcommand forthcoming

Fix typo.

Add two new subcommands, "set" and "unset". These were inspired by
FreeBSD's gpart(8), but the code is all mine. The purpose of these
is to set and unset partition attributes.

For the "show -i <entry>" subcommand, print Start and Size both in
terms of number of sectors and bytes.

For the add and resize subcommands, change the -s option. If there is
no suffix, or the suffix is 's' or 'S', size is in sectors (as before)
otherwise size is in bytes.

Don't attempt to create/resize an unaligned partition if the attempt
to create/resize an aligned one failed. This simplifies the code
and prevents surprises. If the user wants an unaligned partition
in the case where an aligned one fails, they can simply retry the
command without the "-a" option. This change was requested by
wiz@, and after some thought I agree with it.

Add two new options:

-g which shows the GUID for a partition
-i which shows all the gory details for a particular option

XXX the output format of -i is subject to change

bump date

In the manpage:
- s/-b number/-b blocknr/
- s/-s count/-s sectors/
- s/-p count/-p partitions/

In the program:
- s/-b lba/-b blocknr/
- s/-s lba/-s sectors/

This makes the documentation in the manpage and the program consistent
and makes it more clear what the parameters are. Also, "-s lba" was
just plain wrong since LBA stands for Logical Block Address[ing], and
the -s option didn't represent any kind of address, but rather a size.

shrunk.

Add a resize command. This command was inspired by FreeBSD's gpart(8),
but the code was written by myself.

update synopsis for add subcommand

Add two new options to the "add" subcommand:

-a alignment -- attempt to align the start and size of the partition
-l label -- supply a label for the partition

These options were inspired by FreeBSD's gpart(8) command, but the
code was written by me.

- markup
- typo; the label command labels partitions, not remove them
- migrate -s isn't applicable to NetBSD
- add information about the space required for migration
- add a "gpt show -l" example

revert typo fix; teach me to blindly take changes from upstream

type fix: accommodate. -> accomodate.

branches: 1.11.2;
Bump date to date of previous change.

fix a path

branches: 1.9.2;
Add an EXAMPLE section showing how to add a swap file system using gpt. Bump date.

branches: 1.8.2;
Minimally document gpt recover. Bump date.

Document biosboot. Xref boot(8) and installboot(8).

List all the aliases supported for GPT partition types.

branches: 1.5.2;
Don't workaround ancient macro argument limit with .Xo/.Xc.

Fix preamble to match order set out by mdoc(7). Discussed with wiz.

branches: 1.3.28;
fix spelling of accommodate; from Zapher.

Serial comma. Add RCS Id. Remove superfluous quotes.

branches: 1.1.1;
Initial revision

Apply patch from Thierry Laronde: add missing suffixes for size values
and clarify that they are case independant.

gpt.8: fix some grammar

(The BUGS section seems perhaps a little outdated in its warnings of
potential incompatible changes.)

gpt.8: drop cross-reference to cvs(1)

It's no more useful to reference cvs(1) than, say, openssl(1), and
should be self-evident, anyway.

Note that biosboot without -A clears the PMBR "active" flag.
While here, fix some grammar and make the selection options
for biosboot a little clearer.

Ride nia@'s Dd bump.

gpt.8: Clarify that "windows" partition types are also used for FAT32
("msdos" in NetBSD terms), and UDF partitions. Use the same name as
Wikipedia, "Microsoft basic data".

catch up with source rename of fbsd-zfs -> zfs

Fix typo in macro. Sort option descriptions.

Add -H flag to ignore existing MBR (Hybrid MBR/GPT mode).

Exit gracefully when auto-expanding a partition and it is already the
correct size. Add a -q flag to "resize" and "resizedisk" commands to skip
printing warnings in the already resize paths.

Remove outdated note about sysinst restrictions

Add an "uuid" command to generate a new UUID for a portion. The
primary intention is for use for after cloning disks to prevent
collisions.

Allow specifying the partition via -b startsec for the biosboot cmd.

Allow -b to specify a partition for "gpt unset" as well.

Allow -b startsec to specify the partition to change for the set subcommand
as well.
Add another option, -N, as a quick way to remove all attributes.

Make the "show" subcommand accept -b startsec to identify a partition
(very usefull for scripts and other robotic callers).

Add support for specifying the partition to resize via -b startsec
(similar to label and other subcommands). Do not fully add gpt_find
functionality here, as resizing multiple partitions in one go does not
make sense.

branches: 1.63.2;

Spello. (it is "existence").

ispell also says that we should s/parseable/parsable/ but I'm
not sure about that one, so I left it.

I also left a correct spelling that no-one has bothered to mangle!

Bump date for new EXIT STATUS section.

Sort sections.

Make the "gpt header" command return EXIT_FAILURE when no GPT is present.
This helps sysinst to tell a GPT labeled disk from others.
Very lazy version of a change proposed by kre.

add information about how to boot from gpt. mostly taken from the wiki.

Check device parameter to avoid segfaults. Agument synopsis for -l option.

branches: 1.57.2;
Explain what suffixes are accepted when specifying a size.

clarify that alignment is the number of bytes to align to.

Use Fx/Nx.

Fix a typo, and make a couple of minor wording improvements.
I resisted the (very weak) impulse to Americanise some spellings ...

Add note about bootme flag:

The bootme flag is used to indicate which partiotion should be booted
by UEFI boot code.

branches: 1.52.4;
Add -T timestamp for reproducible builds.

Fix spelling of partition.

branches: 1.50.2;
remove dup line

Document the version gpt first appeared.
Replace contractions.
Bump date.

branches: 1.48.2;
Rename 'a' to set the active PMBR flag to 'A'

Fix rendering of biosboot command synopsis.

PR/51230: Add the ability to set the active flag in the PMBR.

Simplify usage for gpt show.

Add a -a flag to the show command, so we can display the full GPT with
all information in one go.

Bump date for previous.
Remove trailing whitespace.

Add listing commands for type, set and unset.
Add help and formatting for set and unset.
Change show to print all the attribute info in one line.

Allow backup and restore to operate on files.

Reflect reality better; we don't handle multiple devices anymore, and
the partitions option is only for the commands that support it.

Firs step of refactoring, remove all globals, factor out some common code,
handle alternate usage but not advertise it.

- automatically sync the wedge information unless -n is specified.
- document the general options in the traditional way.
- split the main program into a separate file.

Add a "header" subcommand that displays information about the size of
the disk along with information from the GPT header if it exists.

Bump date for previous.

Add some more common partition types.

Remove trailing whitespace.

Allow specifying sector and media size on the command line.

PR/47990 - Dr. Wolfgang Stukenbrock -- add "-L <label>" as selector option

PR/44218 - David Young -- add "type" subcommand to change a partition type

- make gpt_gpt() available for use directly by subcommands
- create new resizedisk disk subcommand for relocating backup GPT

document the new restore subcommand

branches: 1.28.4;
Bump date for previous.

Add the backup subcommand. It dumps the contents of the partition
tables as a plist, which is readable by the restore subcommand.

XXX restore subcommand forthcoming

Fix typo.

Add two new subcommands, "set" and "unset". These were inspired by
FreeBSD's gpart(8), but the code is all mine. The purpose of these
is to set and unset partition attributes.

For the "show -i <entry>" subcommand, print Start and Size both in
terms of number of sectors and bytes.

For the add and resize subcommands, change the -s option. If there is
no suffix, or the suffix is 's' or 'S', size is in sectors (as before)
otherwise size is in bytes.

Don't attempt to create/resize an unaligned partition if the attempt
to create/resize an aligned one failed. This simplifies the code
and prevents surprises. If the user wants an unaligned partition
in the case where an aligned one fails, they can simply retry the
command without the "-a" option. This change was requested by
wiz@, and after some thought I agree with it.

Add two new options:

-g which shows the GUID for a partition
-i which shows all the gory details for a particular option

XXX the output format of -i is subject to change

bump date

In the manpage:
- s/-b number/-b blocknr/
- s/-s count/-s sectors/
- s/-p count/-p partitions/

In the program:
- s/-b lba/-b blocknr/
- s/-s lba/-s sectors/

This makes the documentation in the manpage and the program consistent
and makes it more clear what the parameters are. Also, "-s lba" was
just plain wrong since LBA stands for Logical Block Address[ing], and
the -s option didn't represent any kind of address, but rather a size.

shrunk.

Add a resize command. This command was inspired by FreeBSD's gpart(8),
but the code was written by myself.

update synopsis for add subcommand

Add two new options to the "add" subcommand:

-a alignment -- attempt to align the start and size of the partition
-l label -- supply a label for the partition

These options were inspired by FreeBSD's gpart(8) command, but the
code was written by me.

- markup
- typo; the label command labels partitions, not remove them
- migrate -s isn't applicable to NetBSD
- add information about the space required for migration
- add a "gpt show -l" example

revert typo fix; teach me to blindly take changes from upstream

type fix: accommodate. -> accomodate.

branches: 1.11.2;
Bump date to date of previous change.

fix a path

branches: 1.9.2;
Add an EXAMPLE section showing how to add a swap file system using gpt. Bump date.

branches: 1.8.2;
Minimally document gpt recover. Bump date.

Document biosboot. Xref boot(8) and installboot(8).

List all the aliases supported for GPT partition types.

branches: 1.5.2;
Don't workaround ancient macro argument limit with .Xo/.Xc.

Fix preamble to match order set out by mdoc(7). Discussed with wiz.

branches: 1.3.28;
fix spelling of accommodate; from Zapher.

Serial comma. Add RCS Id. Remove superfluous quotes.

branches: 1.1.1;
Initial revision

gpt.8: fix some grammar

(The BUGS section seems perhaps a little outdated in its warnings of
potential incompatible changes.)

gpt.8: drop cross-reference to cvs(1)

It's no more useful to reference cvs(1) than, say, openssl(1), and
should be self-evident, anyway.

Note that biosboot without -A clears the PMBR "active" flag.
While here, fix some grammar and make the selection options
for biosboot a little clearer.

Ride nia@'s Dd bump.

gpt.8: Clarify that "windows" partition types are also used for FAT32
("msdos" in NetBSD terms), and UDF partitions. Use the same name as
Wikipedia, "Microsoft basic data".

catch up with source rename of fbsd-zfs -> zfs

Fix typo in macro. Sort option descriptions.

Add -H flag to ignore existing MBR (Hybrid MBR/GPT mode).

Exit gracefully when auto-expanding a partition and it is already the
correct size. Add a -q flag to "resize" and "resizedisk" commands to skip
printing warnings in the already resize paths.

Remove outdated note about sysinst restrictions

Add an "uuid" command to generate a new UUID for a portion. The
primary intention is for use for after cloning disks to prevent
collisions.

Allow specifying the partition via -b startsec for the biosboot cmd.

Allow -b to specify a partition for "gpt unset" as well.

Allow -b startsec to specify the partition to change for the set subcommand
as well.
Add another option, -N, as a quick way to remove all attributes.

Make the "show" subcommand accept -b startsec to identify a partition
(very usefull for scripts and other robotic callers).

Add support for specifying the partition to resize via -b startsec
(similar to label and other subcommands). Do not fully add gpt_find
functionality here, as resizing multiple partitions in one go does not
make sense.

branches: 1.63.2;

Spello. (it is "existence").

ispell also says that we should s/parseable/parsable/ but I'm
not sure about that one, so I left it.

I also left a correct spelling that no-one has bothered to mangle!

Bump date for new EXIT STATUS section.

Sort sections.

Make the "gpt header" command return EXIT_FAILURE when no GPT is present.
This helps sysinst to tell a GPT labeled disk from others.
Very lazy version of a change proposed by kre.

add information about how to boot from gpt. mostly taken from the wiki.

Check device parameter to avoid segfaults. Agument synopsis for -l option.

branches: 1.57.2;
Explain what suffixes are accepted when specifying a size.

clarify that alignment is the number of bytes to align to.

Use Fx/Nx.

Fix a typo, and make a couple of minor wording improvements.
I resisted the (very weak) impulse to Americanise some spellings ...

Add note about bootme flag:

The bootme flag is used to indicate which partiotion should be booted
by UEFI boot code.

branches: 1.52.4;
Add -T timestamp for reproducible builds.

Fix spelling of partition.

branches: 1.50.2;
remove dup line

Document the version gpt first appeared.
Replace contractions.
Bump date.

branches: 1.48.2;
Rename 'a' to set the active PMBR flag to 'A'

Fix rendering of biosboot command synopsis.

PR/51230: Add the ability to set the active flag in the PMBR.

Simplify usage for gpt show.

Add a -a flag to the show command, so we can display the full GPT with
all information in one go.

Bump date for previous.
Remove trailing whitespace.

Add listing commands for type, set and unset.
Add help and formatting for set and unset.
Change show to print all the attribute info in one line.

Allow backup and restore to operate on files.

Reflect reality better; we don't handle multiple devices anymore, and
the partitions option is only for the commands that support it.

Firs step of refactoring, remove all globals, factor out some common code,
handle alternate usage but not advertise it.

- automatically sync the wedge information unless -n is specified.
- document the general options in the traditional way.
- split the main program into a separate file.

Add a "header" subcommand that displays information about the size of
the disk along with information from the GPT header if it exists.

Bump date for previous.

Add some more common partition types.

Remove trailing whitespace.

Allow specifying sector and media size on the command line.

PR/47990 - Dr. Wolfgang Stukenbrock -- add "-L <label>" as selector option

PR/44218 - David Young -- add "type" subcommand to change a partition type

- make gpt_gpt() available for use directly by subcommands
- create new resizedisk disk subcommand for relocating backup GPT

document the new restore subcommand

branches: 1.28.4;
Bump date for previous.

Add the backup subcommand. It dumps the contents of the partition
tables as a plist, which is readable by the restore subcommand.

XXX restore subcommand forthcoming

Fix typo.

Add two new subcommands, "set" and "unset". These were inspired by
FreeBSD's gpart(8), but the code is all mine. The purpose of these
is to set and unset partition attributes.

For the "show -i <entry>" subcommand, print Start and Size both in
terms of number of sectors and bytes.

For the add and resize subcommands, change the -s option. If there is
no suffix, or the suffix is 's' or 'S', size is in sectors (as before)
otherwise size is in bytes.

Don't attempt to create/resize an unaligned partition if the attempt
to create/resize an aligned one failed. This simplifies the code
and prevents surprises. If the user wants an unaligned partition
in the case where an aligned one fails, they can simply retry the
command without the "-a" option. This change was requested by
wiz@, and after some thought I agree with it.

Add two new options:

-g which shows the GUID for a partition
-i which shows all the gory details for a particular option

XXX the output format of -i is subject to change

bump date

In the manpage:
- s/-b number/-b blocknr/
- s/-s count/-s sectors/
- s/-p count/-p partitions/

In the program:
- s/-b lba/-b blocknr/
- s/-s lba/-s sectors/

This makes the documentation in the manpage and the program consistent
and makes it more clear what the parameters are. Also, "-s lba" was
just plain wrong since LBA stands for Logical Block Address[ing], and
the -s option didn't represent any kind of address, but rather a size.

shrunk.

Add a resize command. This command was inspired by FreeBSD's gpart(8),
but the code was written by myself.

update synopsis for add subcommand

Add two new options to the "add" subcommand:

-a alignment -- attempt to align the start and size of the partition
-l label -- supply a label for the partition

These options were inspired by FreeBSD's gpart(8) command, but the
code was written by me.

- markup
- typo; the label command labels partitions, not remove them
- migrate -s isn't applicable to NetBSD
- add information about the space required for migration
- add a "gpt show -l" example

revert typo fix; teach me to blindly take changes from upstream

type fix: accommodate. -> accomodate.

branches: 1.11.2;
Bump date to date of previous change.

fix a path

branches: 1.9.2;
Add an EXAMPLE section showing how to add a swap file system using gpt. Bump date.

branches: 1.8.2;
Minimally document gpt recover. Bump date.

Document biosboot. Xref boot(8) and installboot(8).

List all the aliases supported for GPT partition types.

branches: 1.5.2;
Don't workaround ancient macro argument limit with .Xo/.Xc.

Fix preamble to match order set out by mdoc(7). Discussed with wiz.

branches: 1.3.28;
fix spelling of accommodate; from Zapher.

Serial comma. Add RCS Id. Remove superfluous quotes.

branches: 1.1.1;
Initial revision

Note that biosboot without -A clears the PMBR "active" flag.
While here, fix some grammar and make the selection options
for biosboot a little clearer.

Ride nia@'s Dd bump.

gpt.8: Clarify that "windows" partition types are also used for FAT32
("msdos" in NetBSD terms), and UDF partitions. Use the same name as
Wikipedia, "Microsoft basic data".

catch up with source rename of fbsd-zfs -> zfs

Fix typo in macro. Sort option descriptions.

Add -H flag to ignore existing MBR (Hybrid MBR/GPT mode).

Exit gracefully when auto-expanding a partition and it is already the
correct size. Add a -q flag to "resize" and "resizedisk" commands to skip
printing warnings in the already resize paths.

Remove outdated note about sysinst restrictions

Add an "uuid" command to generate a new UUID for a portion. The
primary intention is for use for after cloning disks to prevent
collisions.

Allow specifying the partition via -b startsec for the biosboot cmd.

Allow -b to specify a partition for "gpt unset" as well.

Allow -b startsec to specify the partition to change for the set subcommand
as well.
Add another option, -N, as a quick way to remove all attributes.

Make the "show" subcommand accept -b startsec to identify a partition
(very usefull for scripts and other robotic callers).

Add support for specifying the partition to resize via -b startsec
(similar to label and other subcommands). Do not fully add gpt_find
functionality here, as resizing multiple partitions in one go does not
make sense.

branches: 1.63.2;

Spello. (it is "existence").

ispell also says that we should s/parseable/parsable/ but I'm
not sure about that one, so I left it.

I also left a correct spelling that no-one has bothered to mangle!

Bump date for new EXIT STATUS section.

Sort sections.

Make the "gpt header" command return EXIT_FAILURE when no GPT is present.
This helps sysinst to tell a GPT labeled disk from others.
Very lazy version of a change proposed by kre.

add information about how to boot from gpt. mostly taken from the wiki.

Check device parameter to avoid segfaults. Agument synopsis for -l option.

branches: 1.57.2;
Explain what suffixes are accepted when specifying a size.

clarify that alignment is the number of bytes to align to.

Use Fx/Nx.

Fix a typo, and make a couple of minor wording improvements.
I resisted the (very weak) impulse to Americanise some spellings ...

Add note about bootme flag:

The bootme flag is used to indicate which partiotion should be booted
by UEFI boot code.

branches: 1.52.4;
Add -T timestamp for reproducible builds.

Fix spelling of partition.

branches: 1.50.2;
remove dup line

Document the version gpt first appeared.
Replace contractions.
Bump date.

branches: 1.48.2;
Rename 'a' to set the active PMBR flag to 'A'

Fix rendering of biosboot command synopsis.

PR/51230: Add the ability to set the active flag in the PMBR.

Simplify usage for gpt show.

Add a -a flag to the show command, so we can display the full GPT with
all information in one go.

Bump date for previous.
Remove trailing whitespace.

Add listing commands for type, set and unset.
Add help and formatting for set and unset.
Change show to print all the attribute info in one line.

Allow backup and restore to operate on files.

Reflect reality better; we don't handle multiple devices anymore, and
the partitions option is only for the commands that support it.

Firs step of refactoring, remove all globals, factor out some common code,
handle alternate usage but not advertise it.

- automatically sync the wedge information unless -n is specified.
- document the general options in the traditional way.
- split the main program into a separate file.

Add a "header" subcommand that displays information about the size of
the disk along with information from the GPT header if it exists.

Bump date for previous.

Add some more common partition types.

Remove trailing whitespace.

Allow specifying sector and media size on the command line.

PR/47990 - Dr. Wolfgang Stukenbrock -- add "-L <label>" as selector option

PR/44218 - David Young -- add "type" subcommand to change a partition type

- make gpt_gpt() available for use directly by subcommands
- create new resizedisk disk subcommand for relocating backup GPT

document the new restore subcommand

branches: 1.28.4;
Bump date for previous.

Add the backup subcommand. It dumps the contents of the partition
tables as a plist, which is readable by the restore subcommand.

XXX restore subcommand forthcoming

Fix typo.

Add two new subcommands, "set" and "unset". These were inspired by
FreeBSD's gpart(8), but the code is all mine. The purpose of these
is to set and unset partition attributes.

For the "show -i <entry>" subcommand, print Start and Size both in
terms of number of sectors and bytes.

For the add and resize subcommands, change the -s option. If there is
no suffix, or the suffix is 's' or 'S', size is in sectors (as before)
otherwise size is in bytes.

Don't attempt to create/resize an unaligned partition if the attempt
to create/resize an aligned one failed. This simplifies the code
and prevents surprises. If the user wants an unaligned partition
in the case where an aligned one fails, they can simply retry the
command without the "-a" option. This change was requested by
wiz@, and after some thought I agree with it.

Add two new options:

-g which shows the GUID for a partition
-i which shows all the gory details for a particular option

XXX the output format of -i is subject to change

bump date

In the manpage:
- s/-b number/-b blocknr/
- s/-s count/-s sectors/
- s/-p count/-p partitions/

In the program:
- s/-b lba/-b blocknr/
- s/-s lba/-s sectors/

This makes the documentation in the manpage and the program consistent
and makes it more clear what the parameters are. Also, "-s lba" was
just plain wrong since LBA stands for Logical Block Address[ing], and
the -s option didn't represent any kind of address, but rather a size.

shrunk.

Add a resize command. This command was inspired by FreeBSD's gpart(8),
but the code was written by myself.

update synopsis for add subcommand

Add two new options to the "add" subcommand:

-a alignment -- attempt to align the start and size of the partition
-l label -- supply a label for the partition

These options were inspired by FreeBSD's gpart(8) command, but the
code was written by me.

- markup
- typo; the label command labels partitions, not remove them
- migrate -s isn't applicable to NetBSD
- add information about the space required for migration
- add a "gpt show -l" example

revert typo fix; teach me to blindly take changes from upstream

type fix: accommodate. -> accomodate.

branches: 1.11.2;
Bump date to date of previous change.

fix a path

branches: 1.9.2;
Add an EXAMPLE section showing how to add a swap file system using gpt. Bump date.

branches: 1.8.2;
Minimally document gpt recover. Bump date.

Document biosboot. Xref boot(8) and installboot(8).

List all the aliases supported for GPT partition types.

branches: 1.5.2;
Don't workaround ancient macro argument limit with .Xo/.Xc.

Fix preamble to match order set out by mdoc(7). Discussed with wiz.

branches: 1.3.28;
fix spelling of accommodate; from Zapher.

Serial comma. Add RCS Id. Remove superfluous quotes.

branches: 1.1.1;
Initial revision

Note that biosboot without -A clears the PMBR "active" flag.
While here, fix some grammar and make the selection options
for biosboot a little clearer.

Ride nia@'s Dd bump.

gpt.8: Clarify that "windows" partition types are also used for FAT32
("msdos" in NetBSD terms), and UDF partitions. Use the same name as
Wikipedia, "Microsoft basic data".

catch up with source rename of fbsd-zfs -> zfs

Fix typo in macro. Sort option descriptions.

Add -H flag to ignore existing MBR (Hybrid MBR/GPT mode).

Exit gracefully when auto-expanding a partition and it is already the
correct size. Add a -q flag to "resize" and "resizedisk" commands to skip
printing warnings in the already resize paths.

Remove outdated note about sysinst restrictions

Add an "uuid" command to generate a new UUID for a portion. The
primary intention is for use for after cloning disks to prevent
collisions.

Allow specifying the partition via -b startsec for the biosboot cmd.

Allow -b to specify a partition for "gpt unset" as well.

Allow -b startsec to specify the partition to change for the set subcommand
as well.
Add another option, -N, as a quick way to remove all attributes.

Make the "show" subcommand accept -b startsec to identify a partition
(very usefull for scripts and other robotic callers).

Add support for specifying the partition to resize via -b startsec
(similar to label and other subcommands). Do not fully add gpt_find
functionality here, as resizing multiple partitions in one go does not
make sense.

branches: 1.63.2;

Spello. (it is "existence").

ispell also says that we should s/parseable/parsable/ but I'm
not sure about that one, so I left it.

I also left a correct spelling that no-one has bothered to mangle!

Bump date for new EXIT STATUS section.

Sort sections.

Make the "gpt header" command return EXIT_FAILURE when no GPT is present.
This helps sysinst to tell a GPT labeled disk from others.
Very lazy version of a change proposed by kre.

add information about how to boot from gpt. mostly taken from the wiki.

Check device parameter to avoid segfaults. Agument synopsis for -l option.

branches: 1.57.2;
Explain what suffixes are accepted when specifying a size.

clarify that alignment is the number of bytes to align to.

Use Fx/Nx.

Fix a typo, and make a couple of minor wording improvements.
I resisted the (very weak) impulse to Americanise some spellings ...

Add note about bootme flag:

The bootme flag is used to indicate which partiotion should be booted
by UEFI boot code.

branches: 1.52.4;
Add -T timestamp for reproducible builds.

Fix spelling of partition.

branches: 1.50.2;
remove dup line

Document the version gpt first appeared.
Replace contractions.
Bump date.

branches: 1.48.2;
Rename 'a' to set the active PMBR flag to 'A'

Fix rendering of biosboot command synopsis.

PR/51230: Add the ability to set the active flag in the PMBR.

Simplify usage for gpt show.

Add a -a flag to the show command, so we can display the full GPT with
all information in one go.

Bump date for previous.
Remove trailing whitespace.

Add listing commands for type, set and unset.
Add help and formatting for set and unset.
Change show to print all the attribute info in one line.

Allow backup and restore to operate on files.

Reflect reality better; we don't handle multiple devices anymore, and
the partitions option is only for the commands that support it.

Firs step of refactoring, remove all globals, factor out some common code,
handle alternate usage but not advertise it.

- automatically sync the wedge information unless -n is specified.
- document the general options in the traditional way.
- split the main program into a separate file.

Add a "header" subcommand that displays information about the size of
the disk along with information from the GPT header if it exists.

Bump date for previous.

Add some more common partition types.

Remove trailing whitespace.

Allow specifying sector and media size on the command line.

PR/47990 - Dr. Wolfgang Stukenbrock -- add "-L <label>" as selector option

PR/44218 - David Young -- add "type" subcommand to change a partition type

- make gpt_gpt() available for use directly by subcommands
- create new resizedisk disk subcommand for relocating backup GPT

document the new restore subcommand

branches: 1.28.4;
Bump date for previous.

Add the backup subcommand. It dumps the contents of the partition
tables as a plist, which is readable by the restore subcommand.

XXX restore subcommand forthcoming

Fix typo.

Add two new subcommands, "set" and "unset". These were inspired by
FreeBSD's gpart(8), but the code is all mine. The purpose of these
is to set and unset partition attributes.

For the "show -i <entry>" subcommand, print Start and Size both in
terms of number of sectors and bytes.

For the add and resize subcommands, change the -s option. If there is
no suffix, or the suffix is 's' or 'S', size is in sectors (as before)
otherwise size is in bytes.

Don't attempt to create/resize an unaligned partition if the attempt
to create/resize an aligned one failed. This simplifies the code
and prevents surprises. If the user wants an unaligned partition
in the case where an aligned one fails, they can simply retry the
command without the "-a" option. This change was requested by
wiz@, and after some thought I agree with it.

Add two new options:

-g which shows the GUID for a partition
-i which shows all the gory details for a particular option

XXX the output format of -i is subject to change

bump date

In the manpage:
- s/-b number/-b blocknr/
- s/-s count/-s sectors/
- s/-p count/-p partitions/

In the program:
- s/-b lba/-b blocknr/
- s/-s lba/-s sectors/

This makes the documentation in the manpage and the program consistent
and makes it more clear what the parameters are. Also, "-s lba" was
just plain wrong since LBA stands for Logical Block Address[ing], and
the -s option didn't represent any kind of address, but rather a size.

shrunk.

Add a resize command. This command was inspired by FreeBSD's gpart(8),
but the code was written by myself.

update synopsis for add subcommand

Add two new options to the "add" subcommand:

-a alignment -- attempt to align the start and size of the partition
-l label -- supply a label for the partition

These options were inspired by FreeBSD's gpart(8) command, but the
code was written by me.

- markup
- typo; the label command labels partitions, not remove them
- migrate -s isn't applicable to NetBSD
- add information about the space required for migration
- add a "gpt show -l" example

revert typo fix; teach me to blindly take changes from upstream

type fix: accommodate. -> accomodate.

branches: 1.11.2;
Bump date to date of previous change.

fix a path

branches: 1.9.2;
Add an EXAMPLE section showing how to add a swap file system using gpt. Bump date.

branches: 1.8.2;
Minimally document gpt recover. Bump date.

Document biosboot. Xref boot(8) and installboot(8).

List all the aliases supported for GPT partition types.

branches: 1.5.2;
Don't workaround ancient macro argument limit with .Xo/.Xc.

Fix preamble to match order set out by mdoc(7). Discussed with wiz.

branches: 1.3.28;
fix spelling of accommodate; from Zapher.

Serial comma. Add RCS Id. Remove superfluous quotes.

branches: 1.1.1;
Initial revision

catch up with source rename of fbsd-zfs -> zfs

Fix typo in macro. Sort option descriptions.

Add -H flag to ignore existing MBR (Hybrid MBR/GPT mode).

Exit gracefully when auto-expanding a partition and it is already the
correct size. Add a -q flag to "resize" and "resizedisk" commands to skip
printing warnings in the already resize paths.

Remove outdated note about sysinst restrictions

Add an "uuid" command to generate a new UUID for a portion. The
primary intention is for use for after cloning disks to prevent
collisions.

Allow specifying the partition via -b startsec for the biosboot cmd.

Allow -b to specify a partition for "gpt unset" as well.

Allow -b startsec to specify the partition to change for the set subcommand
as well.
Add another option, -N, as a quick way to remove all attributes.

Make the "show" subcommand accept -b startsec to identify a partition
(very usefull for scripts and other robotic callers).

Add support for specifying the partition to resize via -b startsec
(similar to label and other subcommands). Do not fully add gpt_find
functionality here, as resizing multiple partitions in one go does not
make sense.

branches: 1.63.2;

Spello. (it is "existence").

ispell also says that we should s/parseable/parsable/ but I'm
not sure about that one, so I left it.

I also left a correct spelling that no-one has bothered to mangle!

Bump date for new EXIT STATUS section.

Sort sections.

Make the "gpt header" command return EXIT_FAILURE when no GPT is present.
This helps sysinst to tell a GPT labeled disk from others.
Very lazy version of a change proposed by kre.

add information about how to boot from gpt. mostly taken from the wiki.

Check device parameter to avoid segfaults. Agument synopsis for -l option.

branches: 1.57.2;
Explain what suffixes are accepted when specifying a size.

clarify that alignment is the number of bytes to align to.

Use Fx/Nx.

Fix a typo, and make a couple of minor wording improvements.
I resisted the (very weak) impulse to Americanise some spellings ...

Add note about bootme flag:

The bootme flag is used to indicate which partiotion should be booted
by UEFI boot code.

branches: 1.52.4;
Add -T timestamp for reproducible builds.

Fix spelling of partition.

branches: 1.50.2;
remove dup line

Document the version gpt first appeared.
Replace contractions.
Bump date.

branches: 1.48.2;
Rename 'a' to set the active PMBR flag to 'A'

Fix rendering of biosboot command synopsis.

PR/51230: Add the ability to set the active flag in the PMBR.

Simplify usage for gpt show.

Add a -a flag to the show command, so we can display the full GPT with
all information in one go.

Bump date for previous.
Remove trailing whitespace.

Add listing commands for type, set and unset.
Add help and formatting for set and unset.
Change show to print all the attribute info in one line.

Allow backup and restore to operate on files.

Reflect reality better; we don't handle multiple devices anymore, and
the partitions option is only for the commands that support it.

Firs step of refactoring, remove all globals, factor out some common code,
handle alternate usage but not advertise it.

- automatically sync the wedge information unless -n is specified.
- document the general options in the traditional way.
- split the main program into a separate file.

Add a "header" subcommand that displays information about the size of
the disk along with information from the GPT header if it exists.

Bump date for previous.

Add some more common partition types.

Remove trailing whitespace.

Allow specifying sector and media size on the command line.

PR/47990 - Dr. Wolfgang Stukenbrock -- add "-L <label>" as selector option

PR/44218 - David Young -- add "type" subcommand to change a partition type

- make gpt_gpt() available for use directly by subcommands
- create new resizedisk disk subcommand for relocating backup GPT

document the new restore subcommand

branches: 1.28.4;
Bump date for previous.

Add the backup subcommand. It dumps the contents of the partition
tables as a plist, which is readable by the restore subcommand.

XXX restore subcommand forthcoming

Fix typo.

Add two new subcommands, "set" and "unset". These were inspired by
FreeBSD's gpart(8), but the code is all mine. The purpose of these
is to set and unset partition attributes.

For the "show -i <entry>" subcommand, print Start and Size both in
terms of number of sectors and bytes.

For the add and resize subcommands, change the -s option. If there is
no suffix, or the suffix is 's' or 'S', size is in sectors (as before)
otherwise size is in bytes.

Don't attempt to create/resize an unaligned partition if the attempt
to create/resize an aligned one failed. This simplifies the code
and prevents surprises. If the user wants an unaligned partition
in the case where an aligned one fails, they can simply retry the
command without the "-a" option. This change was requested by
wiz@, and after some thought I agree with it.

Add two new options:

-g which shows the GUID for a partition
-i which shows all the gory details for a particular option

XXX the output format of -i is subject to change

bump date

In the manpage:
- s/-b number/-b blocknr/
- s/-s count/-s sectors/
- s/-p count/-p partitions/

In the program:
- s/-b lba/-b blocknr/
- s/-s lba/-s sectors/

This makes the documentation in the manpage and the program consistent
and makes it more clear what the parameters are. Also, "-s lba" was
just plain wrong since LBA stands for Logical Block Address[ing], and
the -s option didn't represent any kind of address, but rather a size.

shrunk.

Add a resize command. This command was inspired by FreeBSD's gpart(8),
but the code was written by myself.

update synopsis for add subcommand

Add two new options to the "add" subcommand:

-a alignment -- attempt to align the start and size of the partition
-l label -- supply a label for the partition

These options were inspired by FreeBSD's gpart(8) command, but the
code was written by me.

- markup
- typo; the label command labels partitions, not remove them
- migrate -s isn't applicable to NetBSD
- add information about the space required for migration
- add a "gpt show -l" example

revert typo fix; teach me to blindly take changes from upstream

type fix: accommodate. -> accomodate.

branches: 1.11.2;
Bump date to date of previous change.

fix a path

branches: 1.9.2;
Add an EXAMPLE section showing how to add a swap file system using gpt. Bump date.

branches: 1.8.2;
Minimally document gpt recover. Bump date.

Document biosboot. Xref boot(8) and installboot(8).

List all the aliases supported for GPT partition types.

branches: 1.5.2;
Don't workaround ancient macro argument limit with .Xo/.Xc.