Re: fdisk and 2048 sectors obsession.

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Karel Zak composed on 2014-10-28 08:32 (UTC+0100):

>> The man page does fail to explain what dos mode actually means.

>  - start at sector 63
>  - care about CHS in partition table
>  - extra checks for alignment to be compatible with CHS addressing

Why isn't that in the man page? People trying to use a program aren't always
able to Google an explanation of its man page minimalism.
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