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fdisk: add note about -S and -H 

It's seems people still follow old advices for SSD/4K devices. Let's
make CHS deprecation more visible at the begin of the man page...

Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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@ -36,6 +36,10 @@ as the default values (e.g. first and last partition sectors) and partition
sizes specified by the +/-<size>{M,G,...} notation are always aligned according
to the device properties.
CHS (Cylinder-Head-Sector) addressing is deprecated and not used by default.
Please, do not follow old articles and recommendations with "fdisk -S <n> -H
<n>" advices for SSD or 4K-sector devices.
Note that
.BR partx (8)
provides a rich interface for scripts to print disk layouts,