Bug 1490984 – Please update fdisk's manual page

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Bug 1490984 - Please update fdisk's manual page

Summary:	Please update fdisk's manual page

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	util-linux (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.3
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	unspecified Severity low
Target Milestone:	rc
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Assigned To:	Karel Zak
QA Contact:	Radka Skvarilova
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Blocks:	1465901
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Reported:	2017-09-12 12:43 EDT by Todd
Modified:	2018-07-25 06:56 EDT (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	util-linux-2.23.2-44.el7
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Last Closed:	2018-04-10 13:25:50 EDT
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHBA-2018:0936	None	None	None	2018-04-10 13:26 EDT

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Description Todd 2017-09-12 12:43:31 EDT

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 13:25:50 EDT

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

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