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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>1998-11-28 19:56:38 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>1998-11-28 19:56:38 +0000
commitcd366aedac3a1a3126d77df58d0a0861c63e8147 (patch)
tree4ddb2966604fee83a4b374b411294c1952e0a4ad /sbin/newfs
parentb77e710b77930242c29b776114492ab08aa2f1c9 (diff)
kill redundant .Nm macro arguments; other misc fixes
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/newfs')
-rw-r--r--sbin/newfs/newfs.822
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/newfs/newfs.8 b/sbin/newfs/newfs.8
index 30d5b5bb19d..752db3b79b9 100644
--- a/sbin/newfs/newfs.8
+++ b/sbin/newfs/newfs.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: newfs.8,v 1.11 1998/11/11 22:19:59 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: newfs.8,v 1.12 1998/11/28 19:56:28 aaron Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: newfs.8,v 1.12 1995/03/18 14:58:41 cgd Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1987, 1991, 1993, 1994
@@ -38,11 +38,10 @@
.Dt NEWFS 8
.Os BSD 4.2
.Sh NAME
-.Nm newfs ,
-.Nm mount_mfs
+.Nm newfs , mount_mfs
.Nd construct a new file system
.Sh SYNOPSIS
-.Nm newfs
+.Nm
.Op Fl NO
.Op Fl S Ar sector-size
.Op Fl a Ar maxcontig
@@ -65,6 +64,7 @@
.Op Fl x Ar sectors
.Op Fl z Ar tracks
.Ar special
+.Pp
.Nm mount_mfs
.Op Fl N
.Op Fl a Ar maxcontig
@@ -79,23 +79,23 @@
.Op Fl s Ar size
.Ar special node
.Sh DESCRIPTION
-.Nm newfs
+.Nm
replaces the more obtuse
.Xr mkfs 8
program.
Before running
-.Nm newfs
+.Nm
or
.Nm mount_mfs ,
the disk must be labeled using
.Xr disklabel 8 .
-.Nm newfs
+.Nm
builds a file system on the specified
.Ar special
device,
basing its defaults on the information in the disk label.
Typically the defaults are reasonable, however
-.Nm newfs
+.Nm
has numerous options to allow the defaults to be selectively overridden.
.Pp
.Nm mount_mfs
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ The size of the file system in sectors.
The following options override the standard sizes for the disk geometry.
Their default values are taken from the disk label.
Changing these defaults is useful only when using
-.Nm newfs
+.Nm
to build a file system whose raw image will eventually be used on a
different type of disk than the one on which it is initially created
(for example on a write-once disk).
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ The number of tracks/cylinder available for data allocation by the file
system.
.It Fl t Ar fstype
Set the filesystem type of which filesystem you wish to create.
-.Nm newfs
+.Nm
will be smart enough to run the alternate newfs_XXX program instead.
.It Fl u Ar sectors/track
The number of sectors per track available for data allocation by the file
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ system for data allocation.
The options to the
.Nm mount_mfs
command are as described for the
-.Nm newfs
+.Nm
command, except for the
.Fl o
option.