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authorjohns <johns@cvs.openbsd.org>1998-03-01 06:43:28 +0000
committerjohns <johns@cvs.openbsd.org>1998-03-01 06:43:28 +0000
commit6bca9dd927b141effd87900940cd8b5fc36cb942 (patch)
treeeb3bfa552a95482e68aca5f3219c64d9e1cc476a /sbin/disklabel/disklabel.8
parentb92b419a6a8ef401c8a4e022115bf3e18426eea0 (diff)
disklabel.8 man page fixes submitted by Aaron Jackson,
jackson@msrce.howard.edu 2 formatting changes, and 2 grammar changes.
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/disklabel/disklabel.8')
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/disklabel/disklabel.8 b/sbin/disklabel/disklabel.8
index 1e18092d65f..7db8e37a1c7 100644
--- a/sbin/disklabel/disklabel.8
+++ b/sbin/disklabel/disklabel.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: disklabel.8,v 1.14 1998/02/20 20:57:50 deraadt Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: disklabel.8,v 1.15 1998/03/01 06:43:27 johns Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: disklabel.8,v 1.9 1995/03/18 14:54:38 cgd Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1987, 1988, 1991, 1993
@@ -238,12 +238,12 @@ will drop you into a simple initial label editor. This mode is
only intended for new disks as it will move partitions around as
necessary to maintain a contiguous pool of free blocks. Some command
or prompts take an optional unit. Available units are 'b' for
-bytes, 'c' for cylinders, 'k' for kilobytes, 'm' for megabytes,
-'g' for gigabytes. Quantities will be rounded to the nearest
+bytes, 'c' for cylinders, 'k' for kilobytes, 'm' for megabytes, 'g'
+for gigabytes. Quantities will be rounded to the nearest
cylinder when units are specified for sizes (or offsets). Commands
-may be aborted by entering ^D (Control-D). Entering ^D at the main
-'<' prompt will exit the editor. At prompts that request a size,
-'*' may be entered to indicate the rest of the available space.
+may be aborted by entering ^D (Control-D). Entering ^D at the main '<'
+prompt will exit the editor. At prompts that request a size, '*'
+may be entered to indicate the rest of the available space.
The editor commands are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width "p [unit] "
.It ?
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ rpm, disk type, and a descriptive label string.
Set OpenBSD disk boundaries. This option tells
.Nm disklabel
which parts of the disk it is allow to modify. This option is
-probably only useful ports with fdisk partition tables where the
+probably only useful for ports with fdisk partition tables where the
ending sector in the MBR is incorrect. The user may enter '*' at
the ``Size'' prompt to indicate the entire size of the disk (minus
the starting sector). This is useful for large disks where the
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ 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 label to the on-disk label.
+the on-disk label.
.It q
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.