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author | Aaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1998-09-17 04:15:04 +0000 |
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committer | Aaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1998-09-17 04:15:04 +0000 |
commit | afa9f8ccda18c5ff879f432ae6f0b9a601b992b3 (patch) | |
tree | 8356bdc65590449d1a86d64a309c95681f802ad2 /sbin/disklabel/disklabel.8 | |
parent | 90e9edeb57b7efe3b1aba0ddeda30341b7e9fd0c (diff) |
sbin/ man page fixes
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/disklabel/disklabel.8')
-rw-r--r-- | sbin/disklabel/disklabel.8 | 26 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/disklabel/disklabel.8 b/sbin/disklabel/disklabel.8 index 00420f80a75..c0fd93d909f 100644 --- a/sbin/disklabel/disklabel.8 +++ b/sbin/disklabel/disklabel.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: disklabel.8,v 1.18 1998/08/06 18:08:09 millert Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: disklabel.8,v 1.19 1998/09/17 04:14:51 aaron Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: disklabel.8,v 1.9 1995/03/18 14:54:38 cgd Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1987, 1988, 1991, 1993 @@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ .Ar disk Ar protofile .Oo Ar disktype Oc .Sh DESCRIPTION -.Nm Disklabel +.Nm disklabel can be used to install, examine or modify the label on a disk drive or pack. When writing the label, it can be used to change the drive identification, @@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ partitions, it will be necessary to have separate disktab entries describing each, or to edit the label after installation as described below. The optional argument is a pack identification string, up to 16 characters long. -The pack id must be quoted if it contains blanks. +The pack ID must be quoted if it contains blanks. If the .Fl r flag is given, the disk sectors containing the label and bootstrap @@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ With the flag, .Nm disklabel is capable of restoring a disk label that was formatted -in a prior operation and saved in an ascii file. +in a prior operation and saved in an ASCII file. The prototype file used to create the label should be in the same format as that produced when reading or editing a label. Comments are delimited by @@ -300,16 +300,16 @@ size, block fragment size, block size, and cylinders per group for the specified partition (not all parameters are configurable for non-BSD partitions). .It s Op path -Save the label to a file in ascii format (suitable for loading via +Save the label to a file in ASCII format (suitable for loading via the -.Op -R +.Fl R option). If no path is specified, the user will be prompted for one. .It w Write the label to disk. This option will commit any changes to the on-disk label. .It q -Quit the editor. If any changes have been made the user will be +Quit the editor. If any changes have been made, the user will be asked whether or not to save the changes to the on-disk label. .It x Exit the editor without saving any changes to the label. @@ -384,12 +384,16 @@ Create a label for sd0 based on information for ``sd2212'' found in .Pa /etc/disktab . Any existing bootstrap code will be clobbered. (Normally you do -not want to use the -r flag though.) +not want to use the +.Fl r +flag though.) .Pp .Dl disklabel -e -r sd0 .Pp Read the on-disk label for sd0, edit it and reinstall in-core as -well as on-disk. (Normally you do not want to use the -r flag +well as on-disk. (Normally you do not want to use the +.Fl r +flag though.) Existing bootstrap code is unaffected. .Pp .Dl disklabel -R sd0 mylabel @@ -458,7 +462,7 @@ mode, .Nm disklabel is far too quick to shuffle partitions around; it should keep a free block list and only move partitions around with the user's -permission. Also in +permission. Also, in .Fl E mode, partitions outside the OpenBSD portion of the disk should -be changeable.. +be changeable. |