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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-03-18 22:56:07 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-03-18 22:56:07 +0000
commit16b21db4d33ff08e914df52000c560f64ef0e39d (patch)
treea11f2d1036bb85a2c46891708f459ae9eedcd2af /sbin/newfs_msdos/newfs_msdos.8
parent404d4678be49dbab2ac44d8d6ae087f87036f9d6 (diff)
Remove hard sentence breaks, and some other cleanup along the way.
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/newfs_msdos/newfs_msdos.8')
-rw-r--r--sbin/newfs_msdos/newfs_msdos.836
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/newfs_msdos/newfs_msdos.8 b/sbin/newfs_msdos/newfs_msdos.8
index f0857cfe486..ddf5a8159d6 100644
--- a/sbin/newfs_msdos/newfs_msdos.8
+++ b/sbin/newfs_msdos/newfs_msdos.8
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+.\" $OpenBSD: newfs_msdos.8,v 1.15 2000/03/18 22:56:02 aaron Exp $
+.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1998 Robert Nordier
.\" All rights reserved.
.\"
@@ -78,26 +80,29 @@ FAT type (one of 12, 16, or 32).
.It Fl I Ar volid
Volume ID.
.It Fl L Ar label
-Volume label (up to 11 characters). The label should consist of
+Volume label (up to 11 characters).
+The label should consist of
only those characters permitted in regular DOS (8+3) filenames.
.It Fl O Ar OEM
-OEM string (up to 8 characters). The default is
+OEM string (up to 8 characters).
+The default is
"BSD 4.4".
.It Fl S Ar sector-size
-Number of bytes per sector. Acceptable values are powers of 2
-in the range 128 through 32768.
+Number of bytes per sector.
+Acceptable values are powers of 2 in the range 128 through 32768.
.It Fl a Ar FAT-size
Number of sectors per FAT.
.It Fl b Ar block-size
-File system block size (bytes per cluster). This should resolve to an
-acceptable number of sectors per cluster (see below).
+File system block size (bytes per cluster).
+This should resolve to an acceptable number of sectors per cluster (see below).
.It Fl c Ar cluster-size
-Sectors per cluster. Acceptable values are powers of 2 in the range
-1 through 128.
+Sectors per cluster.
+Acceptable values are powers of 2 in the range 1 through 128.
.It Fl e Ar dirents
Number of root directory entries (FAT12 and FAT16 only).
.It Fl f Ar format
-Specify a standard (floppy disk) format. The eight standard formats
+Specify a standard (floppy disk) format.
+The eight standard formats
are (capacities in kilobytes): 160, 180, 320, 360, 720, 1200, 1440,
2880.
.It Fl h Ar heads
@@ -106,13 +111,14 @@ Number of drive heads.
Location of the file system info sector (FAT32 only).
A value of 0xffff signifies no info sector.
.It Fl k Ar backup
-Location of the backup boot sector (FAT32 only). A value
-of 0xffff signifies no backup sector.
+Location of the backup boot sector (FAT32 only).
+A value of 0xffff signifies no backup sector.
.It Fl m Ar media
Media descriptor (acceptable range 0xf0 to 0xff).
.It Fl n Ar FATs
-Number of FATs. Acceptable values are 1 to 16 inclusive. The default
-is 2.
+Number of FATs.
+Acceptable values are 1 to 16 inclusive.
+The default is 2.
.It Fl o Ar hidden
Number of hidden sectors.
.It Fl r Ar reserved
@@ -125,8 +131,8 @@ Number of sectors per track.
.Sh NOTES
FAT file system parameters occupy a "Boot Sector BPB (BIOS Parameter
Block)" in the first of the "reserved" sectors which precede the actual
-file system. For reference purposes, this structure is presented
-below.
+file system.
+For reference purposes, this structure is presented below.
.Bd -literal
struct bsbpb {
u_int16_t bps; /* [-S] bytes per sector */