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authorKarel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>2024-04-12 11:30:15 +0200
committerKarel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>2024-04-17 09:39:05 +0200
commit402039303605045642607984bfc5121a759306b4 (patch)
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blkdiscard: (man) add note about fdisk
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ The _device_ argument is the pathname of the block device.
*WARNING: All data in the discarded region on the device will be lost!*
+Since util-linux v2.41, fdisk has the ability to discard sectors on both partitions and unpartitioned areas using the 'T' command.
+
== OPTIONS
The _offset_ and _length_ arguments may be followed by the multiplicative suffixes KiB (=1024), MiB (=1024*1024), and so on for GiB, TiB, PiB, EiB, ZiB and YiB (the "iB" is optional, e.g., "K" has the same meaning as "KiB") or the suffixes KB (=1000), MB (=1000*1000), and so on for GB, TB, PB, EB, ZB and YB.