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.TH CFDISK 8 "3 June 1995" "The BOGUS Linux Release" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
-cfdisk \- Curses based disk partition table manipulator for Linux
+cfdisk \- Curses/slang based disk partition table manipulator for Linux
.SH SYNOPSIS
- .BI "cfdisk [ \-agvz ] [ \-c " cylinders " ] [ \-h " heads " ]"
- .BI "[ \-s " sectors-per-track " ] [ -P " opt " ] [ " device " ]"
+ .B cfdisk
+ .RB [ \-agvz ]
+ .RB [ \-c
+ .IR cylinders ]
+ .RB [ \-h
+ .IR heads ]
+ .RB [ \-s
+ .IR sectors-per-track ]
+ .RB [ \-P
+ .IR opt ]
+ .RI [ device ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B cfdisk
-is a curses based program for partitioning any hard disk drive.
+is a curses/slang based program for partitioning any hard disk drive.
Typical values of the
.I device
argument are:
.SH EXAMPLES
Example scripts for (ba)sh and (t)csh are provided with the
.BR getopt (1)
- distribution, and are installed in
-distribution, and are optionally installed in
-.BR /usr/share/getopt .
++distribution, and are optionally installed in
+.BR /usr/share/doc/util-linux/examples .
+
.SH ENVIRONMENT
.IP POSIXLY_CORRECT
This environment variable is examined by the
.fi
.SH RESTRICTION
DES encryption is painfully slow. On the other hand, XOR is terribly weak.
+Both are insecure nowadays. Some ciphers may require a licence for you to be
+allowed to use them.
Cryptoloop is deprecated in favor of dm-crypt. For more details see
- .B cryptsetup(8).
+ .BR cryptsetup (8).
.SH AVAILABILITY
The losetup command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.