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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2007-11-25 17:38:14 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2007-11-25 17:38:14 +0000
commit59e530b18b223cedc65a249c15e1a49d4c2cf6d5 (patch)
tree039e472d4ad9ceddf5f3364d271e648af11669db
parentae69c063ee808ae65e6a10aee06551f5d24d3cde (diff)
tweak previous;
-rw-r--r--sbin/fdisk/fdisk.812
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/fdisk/fdisk.8 b/sbin/fdisk/fdisk.8
index ddd22c5c790..438fc9d9bfd 100644
--- a/sbin/fdisk/fdisk.8
+++ b/sbin/fdisk/fdisk.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: fdisk.8,v 1.61 2007/11/25 15:55:42 deraadt Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: fdisk.8,v 1.62 2007/11/25 17:38:13 jmc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1997 Tobias Weingartner
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -60,18 +60,18 @@ place of the original (MBR) boot block.
Some other architectures (like the zaurus), consider sector 0 of the disk
to contain the MBR partition table, but do not use the MBR bootcode at all.
.Pp
-Upon the first access to a disk, the partition information is fetched,
+Upon first access to a disk, the partition information is retrieved,
typically in
.Xr disklabel 5
format.
The location of the disklabel can vary from architecture to architecture,
-but if one is not found the existance of a MBR partition table will create
+but if one is not found the existence of an MBR partition table will create
a spoofed prototypical disklabel which can be viewed using
.Xr disklabel 8 .
This spoofing mechanism is useful for permitting partition access for
-devices which one would not normally want to place a true
+devices which would not normally have a
.Xr disklabel 5
-sector on.
+sector.
.Pp
The options are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ has passed to the kernel.
.It Fl e
Use the interactive edit of
.Nm
-to modify a MBR partition table.
+to modify an MBR partition table.
The editor permits configuration of the MBR partition, as well as
extended MBR partitions.
See