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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2003-07-28 22:29:00 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2003-07-28 22:29:00 +0000
commitd079af4331107f7f0eaa1214612cb65d4aad1199 (patch)
tree9656aeffc5e9fe05d96ecd3c855ae2624474b741 /sbin/growfs/growfs.8
parent3f6d7b8f803adc6d3c7938fb57a0f042719c678e (diff)
tweak;
ok tedu@
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diff --git a/sbin/growfs/growfs.8 b/sbin/growfs/growfs.8
index 9405d2653f9..e1d5b302626 100644
--- a/sbin/growfs/growfs.8
+++ b/sbin/growfs/growfs.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: growfs.8,v 1.1 2003/07/28 21:09:28 tedu Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: growfs.8,v 1.2 2003/07/28 22:28:59 jmc Exp $
.\" Copyright (c) 2000 Christoph Herrmann, Thomas-Henning von Kamptz
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1989, 1993 The Regents of the University of California.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -63,19 +63,20 @@ If you wish to grow a file system beyond the boundary of
the slice it resides in, you must re-size the slice using
.Xr fdisk 8
before running
-.Nm .
+.Nm growfs .
The
.Nm
utility extends the size of the file system on the specified special file.
+.Pp
Currently
.Nm
can only enlarge unmounted file systems.
-Do not try enlarging a mounted file system, your system may panic and you will
+Do not try enlarging a mounted file system \- your system may panic and you will
not be able to use the file system any longer.
Most of the
.Xr newfs 8
options cannot be changed by
-.Nm .
+.Nm growfs .
In fact, you can only increase the size of the file system.
Use
.Xr tunefs 8
@@ -84,11 +85,11 @@ for other changes.
The following options are available:
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Fl N
-.Dq Test mode .
+Test mode.
Causes the new file system parameters to be printed out without actually
enlarging the file system.
.It Fl y
-.Dq Expert mode .
+Expert mode.
Usually
.Nm
will ask you if you took a backup of your data before and will do some tests
@@ -108,11 +109,6 @@ This value defaults to the size of the raw partition specified in
.Nm
will enlarge the file system to the size of the entire partition).
.El
-.Sh BUGS
-It is recommended to always use
-.Xr fsck 8
-after enlarging (just to be on the safe side).
-.Pp
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr disklabel 8 ,
.Xr dumpfs 8 ,
@@ -120,12 +116,17 @@ after enlarging (just to be on the safe side).
.Xr fsck 8 ,
.Xr newfs 8 ,
.Xr tunefs 8
-.Sh AUTHORS
-.An Christoph Herrmann Aq chm@FreeBSD.org
-.An Thomas-Henning von Kamptz Aq tomsoft@FreeBSD.org
-.An The GROWFS team Aq growfs@Tomsoft.COM
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
utility first appeared in
.Fx 4.4 .
+.Sh AUTHORS
+.An Christoph Herrmann Aq chm@FreeBSD.org
+.An Thomas-Henning von Kamptz Aq tomsoft@FreeBSD.org
+.An The GROWFS team Aq growfs@Tomsoft.COM
+.Sh BUGS
+It is recommended to always use
+.Xr fsck 8
+after enlarging
+.Pq just to be on the safe side .