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Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/newfs')
| -rw-r--r-- | sbin/newfs/newfs.8 | 24 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/newfs/newfs.8 b/sbin/newfs/newfs.8 index 14f16d724ba..926f3dfe485 100644 --- a/sbin/newfs/newfs.8 +++ b/sbin/newfs/newfs.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: newfs.8,v 1.8 1998/08/30 22:45:12 deraadt Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: newfs.8,v 1.9 1998/09/17 04:14:57 aaron Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: newfs.8,v 1.12 1995/03/18 14:58:41 cgd Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1987, 1991, 1993, 1994 @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ .Nm newfs .Op Fl NO .Op Fl S Ar sector-size -.Op Fl a maxcontig +.Op Fl a Ar maxcontig .Op Fl b Ar block-size .Op Fl c Ar cylinders .Op Fl d Ar rotdelay @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ .Ar special .Nm mount_mfs .Op Fl N -.Op Fl a maxcontig +.Op Fl a Ar maxcontig .Op Fl b Ar block-size .Op Fl c Ar cylinders .Op Fl d Ar rotdelay @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ .Op Fl s Ar size .Ar special node .Sh DESCRIPTION -.Nm Newfs +.Nm newfs replaces the more obtuse .Xr mkfs 8 program. @@ -89,17 +89,19 @@ or .Nm mount_mfs , the disk must be labeled using .Xr disklabel 8 . -.Nm Newfs -builds a file system on the specified special device +.Nm newfs +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 has numerous options to allow the defaults to be selectively overridden. .Pp -.Nm Mount_mfs +.Nm mount_mfs is used to build a file system in virtual memory and then mount it on a specified node. -.Nm Mount_mfs +.Nm mount_mfs exits and the contents of the file system are lost when the file system is unmounted. If @@ -134,7 +136,7 @@ built-in so it is not necessary to run manually unless you wish to re-randomize the filesystem (or list the inode generation numbers). .Pp -The following options define the general layout policies. +The following options define the general layout policies: .Bl -tag -width Fl .It Fl N Causes the file system parameters to be printed out @@ -194,7 +196,7 @@ The number of distinct rotational positions. The default is 1. .Pq ``space'' or ``time'' The file system can either be instructed to try to minimize the time spent allocating blocks, or to try to minimize the space fragmentation on the disk. -Unless an optimizations has been specified, if the value of minfree +Unless an optimization has been specified, if the value of minfree (see above) is less than 5%, the default is to optimize for space; if the value of minfree is greater than or equal to 5%, the default is to optimize for time. @@ -214,7 +216,7 @@ different type of disk than the one on which it is initially created (for example on a write-once disk). Note that changing any of these values from their defaults will make it impossible for -.Xr fsck +.Xr fsck 8 to find the alternate superblocks if the standard superblock is lost. .Bl -tag -width Fl .It Fl S Ar sector-size |