Dear util-linux maintainers.
the manpage-l10n project maintains a large number of translations of
man pages both from a large variety of sources (including util-linux) as
well for a large variety of target languages.
During their work translators notice different possible issues in the
original (english) man pages. Sometiems this is a straightforward
typo, sometimes a hard to read sentence, sometimes this is a
convention not held up and sometimes we simply do not understand the
original.
We use several distributions as sources and update regularly (at
least every 2 month). This means we are fairly recent (some
distributions like archlinux also update frequently) but might miss
the latest upstream version once a while, so the error might be
already fixed. We apologize and ask you to close the issue immediately
if this should be the case, but given the huge volume of projects and
the very limited number of volunteers we are not able to double check
each and every issue.
Secondly we translators see the manpages in the neutral po format,
i.e. converted and harmonized, but not the original source (be it man,
groff, xml or other). So we cannot provide a true patch (where
possible), but only an approximation which you need to convert into
your source format.
Finally the issues I'm reporting have accumulated over time and are
not always discovered by me, so sometimes my description of the
problem my be a bit limited - do not hesitate to ask so we can clarify
them.
I'm now reporting the errors for your project. If future reports should
use another channel, please let me know.
**
Man page: fdisk.8
Issue: Content: Do need to mark partitions with »volume« and »volume
header«
"An IRIX/SGI disklabel can describe 16 partitions, the eleventh of which "
"should be an entire `volume' partition, while the ninth should be labeled "
"`volume header'. The volume header will also cover the partition table, i."
"e., it starts at block zero and extends by default over five cylinders. The "
"remaining space in the volume header may be used by header directory "
"entries. No partitions may overlap with the volume header. Also do not "
"change its type or make some filesystem on it, since you will lose the "
"partition table. Use this type of label only when working with Linux on "
"IRIX/SGI machines or IRIX/SGI disks under Linux."
Greetings
Helge
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