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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2015-10-26 18:05:26 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2015-10-26 18:05:26 +0000
commit47620ed4fea896c1b668356b6899c5d105c718c9 (patch)
treefdc36842abe1ec653443f84e050f211fc8a31680
parent6488d4ab5d7bb664aeb9c27c4fdc7ad1583aca75 (diff)
tweak previous;
-rw-r--r--sbin/fdisk/fdisk.832
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/fdisk/fdisk.8 b/sbin/fdisk/fdisk.8
index 1caaabdc285..f489a29300f 100644
--- a/sbin/fdisk/fdisk.8
+++ b/sbin/fdisk/fdisk.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: fdisk.8,v 1.86 2015/10/26 14:37:50 krw Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: fdisk.8,v 1.87 2015/10/26 18:05:25 jmc Exp $
.\"
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1997 Tobias Weingartner
@@ -44,7 +44,9 @@ The GPT partition table, when present, starts at sector 1.
Each entry has a type.
A type of
.Ar 0xA6
-indicates an OpenBSD MBR partition, which starts with its own
+indicates an
+.Ox
+MBR partition, which starts with its own
16-entry partition table known as a
.Xr disklabel 5 .
This can be edited using
@@ -105,7 +107,7 @@ will completely overwrite the primary MBR bootcode and MBR partition table.
.Pp
If
.Fl g
-is not specified then the MBR will be overwritten by the
+is not specified then the MBR will be overwritten by
the default MBR template
.Pa /usr/mdec/mbr
(or the one optionally specified by the
@@ -166,7 +168,8 @@ When called with no special flags,
prints the partition table of the specified disk.
.Pp
If the disk does not contain a valid GPT the contents
-of the MBR are displayed. e.g.:
+of the MBR are displayed.
+For example:
.Bd -literal -offset 1n
# fdisk sd0
Disk: sd0 geometry: 121601/255/63 [1953525168 Sectors]
@@ -218,20 +221,21 @@ These values must be kept correctly synchronized or a variety of
problems develop which are very difficult to diagnose.
.Pp
If the disk contains a protective MBR and a valid GPT, the contents of the GPT
-are displayed. e.g.:
+are displayed.
+For example:
.Bd -literal -offset 1n
Disk: sd1 ca501b80-5b85-40fd-a00e-abc6ffc5f97c [7907328 Sectors]
First usable LBA: 64 Last usable LBA: 7907264
- #: uuid lba size
+ #: uuid lba size
type name
---------------------------------------------------------------------
- 1: 415afb62-3f56-43c5-a1b3-9405aace56f9 64 960
- EFI Sys EFI System Area
- 3: 6bcc08a8-66a6-43ae-aa1f-9869ab4c8a27 1024 7906241
- OpenBSD OpenBSD Area
+ 1: 415afb62-3f56-43c5-a1b3-9405aace56f9 64 960
+ EFI Sys EFI System Area
+ 3: 6bcc08a8-66a6-43ae-aa1f-9869ab4c8a27 1024 7906241
+ OpenBSD OpenBSD Area
.Ed
.Pp
-This 7907328 sector disk drive is divided into two
+This 7907328 sector disk drive is divided into two
partitions that span the whole disk.
The first partition is a 960 sector EFI Sys partition.
the second is a 7906241 sector
@@ -244,7 +248,7 @@ Number identifying each partition table entry.
.It Em "uuid"
The UUID of the partition.
.It Em "lba"
-The sector the partion starts on.
+The sector the partition starts on.
.It Em "size"
The number of sectors in the partition.
.It Em "type"
@@ -371,7 +375,7 @@ Not available when editing a GPT.
Edit a given table entry in the memory copy of
the current boot block.
Sizes may be adjusted in BIOS geometry mode (MBR only) or using
- sector offsets and sizes.
+sector offsets and sizes.
A unit
.Sq b ,
.Sq k ,
@@ -415,7 +419,7 @@ an existing partition to
.It Cm swap Ar # Ar #
Swap two partition entries.
.It Cm print Op Ar unit
-Print the currently selected in-memory copy of the
+Print the currently selected in-memory copy of the
partition table to the terminal.
A
.Ar unit