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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>1998-09-17 04:15:04 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>1998-09-17 04:15:04 +0000
commitafa9f8ccda18c5ff879f432ae6f0b9a601b992b3 (patch)
tree8356bdc65590449d1a86d64a309c95681f802ad2 /sbin/disklabel/disklabel.8
parent90e9edeb57b7efe3b1aba0ddeda30341b7e9fd0c (diff)
sbin/ man page fixes
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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.