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1.1     ! root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1983 Regents of the University of California.
        !             2: .\" All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
        !             3: .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
        !             4: .\"
        !             5: .\"    @(#)disktab.5   6.5 (Berkeley) 6/18/87
        !             6: .\"
        !             7: .TH DISKTAB 5 "June 18, 1987"
        !             8: .UC 5
        !             9: .SH NAME
        !            10: disktab \- disk description file
        !            11: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !            12: .B #include <disktab.h>
        !            13: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            14: .I Disktab
        !            15: is a simple database which describes disk geometries and
        !            16: disk partition characteristics.
        !            17: It is used
        !            18: .\"by the formatter(\c
        !            19: .\"IR format (8))
        !            20: .\"to determine how to format the disk, and
        !            21: to initialize the disk label on the disk.
        !            22: The format is patterned
        !            23: after the
        !            24: .IR termcap (5)
        !            25: terminal data base.  Entries in 
        !            26: .I disktab
        !            27: consist of a number of `:' separated fields.  The
        !            28: first entry for each disk gives the names which are
        !            29: known for the disk, separated by `|' characters.  The
        !            30: last name given should be a long name fully identifying
        !            31: the disk. 
        !            32: .PP
        !            33: The following list indicates the normal values
        !            34: stored for each disk entry.
        !            35: .nf
        !            36: 
        !            37: .ta \w'd[0-4] 'u +\w'Type  'u
        !            38: \fBName        Type    Description\fP
        !            39: 
        !            40: ty     str     Type of disk (e.g. removable, winchester)
        !            41: dt     str     Type of controller (e.g. SMD, ESDI, floppy)
        !            42: ns     num     Number of sectors per track
        !            43: nt     num     Number of tracks per cylinder
        !            44: nc     num     Total number of cylinders on the disk
        !            45: sc     num     Number of sectors per cylinder, nc*nt default
        !            46: su     num     Number of sectors per unit, sc*nc default
        !            47: se     num     Sector size in bytes, DEV_BSIZE default
        !            48: sf     bool    Controller supports bad144-style bad sector forwarding
        !            49: rm     num     Rotation speed, rpm, 3600 default
        !            50: sk     num     Sector skew per track, default 0
        !            51: cs     num     Sector skew per cylinder, default 0
        !            52: hs     num     Headswitch time, usec, default 0
        !            53: ts     num     One-cylinder seek time, usec, default 0
        !            54: il     num     Sector interleave (n:1), 1 default
        !            55: d[0-4] num     Drive-type-dependent parameters
        !            56: bs     num     Boot block size, default BBSIZE
        !            57: sb     num     Superblock size, default SBSIZE
        !            58: ba     num     Block size for partition `a' (bytes)
        !            59: bd     num     Block size for partition `d' (bytes)
        !            60: be     num     Block size for partition `e' (bytes)
        !            61: bf     num     Block size for partition `f' (bytes)
        !            62: bg     num     Block size for partition `g' (bytes)
        !            63: bh     num     Block size for partition `h' (bytes)
        !            64: fa     num     Fragment size for partition `a' (bytes)
        !            65: fd     num     Fragment size for partition `d' (bytes)
        !            66: fe     num     Fragment size or partition `e' (bytes)
        !            67: ff     num     Fragment size for partition `f' (bytes)
        !            68: fg     num     Fragment size for partition `g' (bytes)
        !            69: fh     num     Fragment size for partition `h' (bytes)
        !            70: oa     num     Offset of partition `a' in sectors
        !            71: ob     num     Offset of partition `b' in sectors
        !            72: oc     num     Offset of partition `c' in sectors
        !            73: od     num     Offset of partition `d' in sectors
        !            74: oe     num     Offset of partition `e' in sectors
        !            75: of     num     Offset of partition `f' in sectors
        !            76: og     num     Offset of partition `g' in sectors
        !            77: oh     num     Offset of partition `h' in sectors
        !            78: pa     num     Size of partition `a' in sectors
        !            79: pb     num     Size of partition `b' in sectors
        !            80: pc     num     Size of partition `c' in sectors
        !            81: pd     num     Size of partition `d' in sectors
        !            82: pe     num     Size of partition `e' in sectors
        !            83: pf     num     Size of partition `f' in sectors
        !            84: pg     num     Size of partition `g' in sectors
        !            85: ph     num     Size of partition `h' in sectors
        !            86: ta     str     Partition type of partition `a' (4.2BSD filesystem, swap, etc)
        !            87: tb     str     Partition type of partition `b'
        !            88: tc     str     Partition type of partition `c'
        !            89: td     str     Partition type of partition `d'
        !            90: te     str     Partition type of partition `e'
        !            91: tf     str     Partition type of partition `f'
        !            92: tg     str     Partition type of partition `g'
        !            93: th     str     Partition type of partition `h'
        !            94: .fi
        !            95: .SH FILES
        !            96: /etc/disktab
        !            97: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !            98: getdiskbyname(3), disklabel(5), disklabel(8), newfs(8)

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