Bug 1490984

Summary: Please update fdisk's manual page
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Todd <ToddAndMargo>
Component: util-linuxAssignee: Karel Zak <kzak>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Radka Brychtova <rskvaril>
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Version: 7.3CC: fsumsal, rskvaril
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Last Closed: 2018-04-10 17:25:50 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Todd 2017-09-12 16:43:31 UTC 
Dear Red Hat,

I am coming from the community.

For those of use that actually Read The Freeking Manual (RTFM), would you please update and correct fdisks's manual page.

For instance, in the DESCRIPTION, it state:
    
       fdisk  does  not  understand GUID partition tables (GPTs) and it is not
       designed for large partitions.  In these cases, use the  more  advanced
       GNU parted(8).

Except that fdisk actually does support GPT as seen from the program's help menu (m): 

       g   create a new empty GPT partition table

To fix this issue, I would suggest copying and pasting from:
     http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/fdisk.8.html

Many thanks,
-T

What??? You thought none of us "actually" used the man pages any more ???
Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2018-04-10 17:25:50 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:0936