debian man page for gptsync

gptsync(8)							       rEFIt								gptsync(8)

NAME
       gptsync - GPT partition table to MBR partition table synchronisation

SYNOPSIS
       gptsync [-q] [-t] device

DESCRIPTION
       gptsync	reads the GPT partition table on device and synchronises the legacy MBR partition table with the GPT partition table. The MBR par-
       tition table can hold only 4 partitions.

       Legacy bootloaders or operating systems that do not support GPT require an MBR partition table; this is typically the case when using  GRUB
       or LILO on an Intel-based Apple machine.

OPTIONS
       -q     Do not print any message, do not prompt to modify the MBR.

       -t     Truncate partitions starting or expending beyond 2 TiB (MBR limitation).	Default is to ignore such partitions.

AUTHOR
       gptsync was written by Christoph Pfisterer.

       This  manual page was written by Junichi Uekawa <dancer@debian.org> and Julien BLACHE <jblache@debian.org>, for the Debian Project (but may
       be used by others).

Debian								   2008 July 24 							gptsync(8)