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author | Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2006-09-11 07:24:34 +0000 |
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committer | Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2006-09-11 07:24:34 +0000 |
commit | c3442a998858aa2577bdd769dc76c4016aa27465 (patch) | |
tree | 92ddc1bb1e2c69883bf34fcc0e60873564c2daf7 /sbin/scan_ffs/scan_ffs.8 | |
parent | 09b00847062dc50c5b9f6ce8c51a023f91e950f6 (diff) |
- sort options
- no need for .Pp between list items
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/scan_ffs/scan_ffs.8')
-rw-r--r-- | sbin/scan_ffs/scan_ffs.8 | 32 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/scan_ffs/scan_ffs.8 b/sbin/scan_ffs/scan_ffs.8 index d79334d63e8..74b5cdb631f 100644 --- a/sbin/scan_ffs/scan_ffs.8 +++ b/sbin/scan_ffs/scan_ffs.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: scan_ffs.8,v 1.13 2004/12/14 00:04:21 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: scan_ffs.8,v 1.14 2006/09/11 07:24:33 jmc Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1997 Niklas Hallqvist, Tobias Weingartner .\" All rights reserved. @@ -50,12 +50,21 @@ information to help in the reconstruction of the disklabel. .Pp The options are as follows: .Bl -tag -width Ds +.It Fl b Ar begin +Tell +.Nm +where to begin searching for filesystems. +This makes it easier to skip swap +partitions, or other large non-UFS/FFS partitions. +.It Fl e Ar end +Ditto for telling +.Nm +where to stop. .It Fl l This will make .Nm print out a string looking much like the input to disklabel. With a little massaging, this output can usually be used in the disklabel edit. -.Pp .It Fl s This tells .Nm @@ -66,30 +75,15 @@ However, sometimes being smart is too good for its own good, especially if your disk has had a different layout previously, or contains other non-UFS/FFS filesystems. -.Pp .It Fl v Tell .Nm to be verbose about what it is doing, and what it has found. -.Pp -.It Fl b Ar begin -Tell -.Nm -where to begin searching for filesystems. -This makes it easier to skip swap -partitions, or other large non-UFS/FFS partitions. -.Pp -.It Fl e Ar end -Ditto for telling -.Nm -where to stop. -.Pp .It Ar device This specifies which device .Nm should use to scan for filesystems. Usually this device should cover the whole disk in question. -.Pp .El .Pp The basic operation of this program is as follows: @@ -109,7 +103,6 @@ printouts, backups screendumps, and whatever other method you can think of. The more information you have, the better your chances are in recovering the disklabel of the disk. -.Pp .It Create a disklabel on the affected disk, which covers the whole disk, and has at least one partition which covers the whole disk. @@ -117,7 +110,6 @@ As the .Dq c partition usually covers the whole disk anyways, this sounds like a good place to start. -.Pp .It Run .Nm @@ -126,7 +118,6 @@ If you have any information about the disklabel which used to exist on the disk, keep that in mind while .Nm spews out its things. -.Pp .It Use .Xr disklabel 8 @@ -134,7 +125,6 @@ to reconstruct the disklabel on the affected disk, using all the information you gathered from .Nm and other sources. -.Pp .El .Pp Last but certainly not least, we wish you good luck. |