Document disklabel(8) -T's new RAID template

OK jmc

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/sbin/disklabel/disklabel.8 b/sbin/disklabel/disklabel.8
index ec864a7cbd1..b9ca7ec3b3b 100644
--- a/sbin/disklabel/disklabel.8
+++ b/sbin/disklabel/disklabel.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: disklabel.8,v 1.148 2022/07/31 14:29:19 krw Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: disklabel.8,v 1.149 2022/09/04 08:06:40 kn Exp $
 .\"	$NetBSD: disklabel.8,v 1.9 1995/03/18 14:54:38 cgd Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1987, 1988, 1991, 1993
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 .\"
 .\"	@(#)disklabel.8	8.2 (Berkeley) 4/19/94
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: July 31 2022 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: September 4 2022 $
 .Dt DISKLABEL 8
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -538,11 +538,11 @@ A template for the automatic allocation can be passed to disklabel using
 the
 .Fl T
 option.
-The template consists of one line per partition, with each line giving
+The template consists of one line per partition, each giving partition type or
 mount point, min-max size range, and percentage of disk, space-separated.
 Max can be unlimited by specifying '*'.
-If only mount point and min size are given, the partition is created with that
-exact size.
+If max size and percentage of disk are omitted, the partition is
+created with the exact min size.
 .Bd -literal -offset indent
 /		250M
 swap		80M-256M 10%
@@ -555,6 +555,15 @@ swap		80M-256M 10%
 /usr/obj	1.3G-2G	4%
 /home		1G-*	45%
 .Ed
+.Pp
+The partition type
+.Dq RAID
+denotes partitions suitable as
+.Xr softraid 4
+chunks.
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+RAID		1M-*	100%
+.Ed
 .Sh FILES
 .Bl -tag -width Pa -compact
 .It Pa /etc/disktab
@@ -597,6 +606,7 @@ setting the label on the new partition while shrinking the
 .Sq a
 partition.
 .Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr softraid 4 ,
 .Xr disklabel 5 ,
 .Xr disktab 5 ,
 .Xr installboot 8 ,