mkpar(8)                            CLIX                            mkpar(8)



  NAME

    mkpar - Creates or modifies a disk partition table

  SYNOPSIS

    /etc/mkpar [-f] rawdevice

  FLAGS

    -f  Partitions a floppy disk.

  DESCRIPTION

    The mkpar command creates or modifies the partition information for any
    disk device.  The mkpar command first displays the capacity of rawdevice.
    Then, mkpar reads the partition information from stdin and creates the
    described partitions on rawdevice.

    Each of the input lines describes a partition.  The format of the input
    line is shown below:

    partition<Tab>modifier<Tab>size


    partition   The partition number should be in the first column.

    modifier    The modifier number should be in the second column.

    size        The partition size should be in the third column.

    Any input data beyond the third column is ignored.

    As each partition is created the partition information is echoed to
    stdout.  A start block is added to the output in column 4.  The start
    block is calculated from the cumulative sizes of previously specified
    partitions.

    The input format for mkpar is the same as the output format of parck.
    This allows for a modified version of the partition table from parck to be
    used as input to mkpar.

    The End of Disk (EOD) partition is used by some utilities.  The EOD
    partition has a partition number of 0xff and a modifier of 0x0 with a
    length of 0.  An EOD partition should be included as the last partition.

  NOTES

    Each partition header requires one block for 512-byte block devices and
    two blocks for 1024-block devices.




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  mkpar(8)                            CLIX                            mkpar(8)



  RELATED INFORMATION

    Commands: parck(8)

    Files: dc(7), fl(7), diskpar(4), floppypar(4)

















































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