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authorBjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@rhi.hi.is>2014-04-02 23:23:32 +0000
committerKarel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>2014-04-23 11:55:08 +0200
commit6b280686b6623a7a05b0dcdde7ae52fa6e583458 (patch)
treeb7dedb9403f1076e7dff1662d87fdc52ce740e17
parent6db98149e28e6b25c78aada5177bc59a33f3e7f9 (diff)
downloadutil-linux-6b280686b6623a7a05b0dcdde7ae52fa6e583458.tar.gz
blockdev: Some minor corrections to the manual
Macro, that alternately changes the input between two font styles, changed to the macro for one font style change, if there is only one argument Text string, that begins or ends with a full stop (.) protected with \& -- changed to \-\- if it is an option - changed to \(en if it is a dash (pause, seperation) Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r--disk-utils/blockdev.818
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/disk-utils/blockdev.8 b/disk-utils/blockdev.8
index f4282daae..c46099d04 100644
--- a/disk-utils/blockdev.8
+++ b/disk-utils/blockdev.8
@@ -10,14 +10,14 @@ blockdev \- call block device ioctls from the command line
.B blockdev
.RB [ \-q ]
.RB [ \-v ]
-.IR command
-.RI [ command ...]
-.IR device
-.RI [ device ...]
+.I command
+.RI [ command \&...\&]
+.I device
+.RI [ device \&...\&]
.br
.B blockdev
.B \-\-report
-.RI [ device ...]
+.RI [ device \&...\&]
.SH DESCRIPTION
The utility
.B blockdev
@@ -60,9 +60,9 @@ Get read-only. Print 1 if the device is read-only, 0 otherwise.
.IP "\fB\-\-getsize64\fP"
Print device size in bytes.
.IP "\fB\-\-getsize\fP"
-Print device size (32-bit!) in sectors. Deprecated in favor of the --getsz option.
+Print device size (32-bit!) in sectors. Deprecated in favor of the \-\-getsz option.
.IP "\fB\-\-getss\fP"
-Print sectorsize in bytes - usually 512.
+Print sectorsize in bytes \(en usually 512.
.IP "\fB\-\-getsz\fP"
Get size in 512-byte sectors.
.IP "\fB\-\-rereadpt\fP"
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ Set blocksize. Note that the block size is specific to the current file
descriptor opening the block device, so the change of block size only persists
for as long as blockdev has the device open, and is lost once blockdev exits.
.IP "\fB\-\-setfra\fP \fIsectors\fP"
-Set filesystem readahead (same like --setra on 2.6 kernels).
+Set filesystem readahead (same like \-\-setra on 2.6 kernels).
.IP "\fB\-\-setra\fP \fIsectors\fP"
Set readahead (in 512-byte sectors).
.IP "\fB\-\-setro\fP"
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ Set read-only.
.IP "\fB\-\-setrw\fP"
Set read-write.
.SH AUTHOR
-blockdev was written by Andries E. Brouwer and rewritten by Karel Zak.
+blockdev was written by Andries E.\& Brouwer and rewritten by Karel Zak.
.SH AVAILABILITY
The blockdev command is part of the util-linux package and is available from
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.