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authorBenno Schulenberg2011-08-28 11:14:42 +0200
committerKarel Zak2011-08-29 11:24:47 +0200
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docs: tweak the formatting and wording of several disk-utils man pages
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
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diff --git a/disk-utils/mkfs.minix.8 b/disk-utils/mkfs.minix.8
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@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ mkfs.minix \- make a Minix filesystem
.RI [ size-in-blocks ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B mkfs.minix
-creates a Linux MINIX file-system on a device (usually a disk partition).
+creates a Linux MINIX filesystem on a device (usually a disk partition).
The
.I device
@@ -41,28 +41,28 @@ Only block counts strictly greater than 10 and strictly less than
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-c
-Check the device for bad blocks before creating the file system. If any
+Check the device for bad blocks before creating the filesystem. If any
are found, the count is printed.
.TP
.BI \-n " namelength"
Specify the maximum length of filenames.
Currently, the only allowable values are 14 and 30.
-The default is 30. Note that kernels older than 0.99p7
+The default is 30. Note that kernels older than 0.99p7
only accept namelength 14.
.TP
.BI \-i " inodecount"
Specify the number of inodes for the filesystem.
.TP
.BI \-l " filename"
-Read the bad blocks list from
+Read the list of bad blocks from
.IR filename .
-The file has one bad block number per line. The count of bad blocks read
+The file has one bad-block number per line. The count of bad blocks read
is printed.
.TP
.B \-1
Make a Minix version 1 filesystem.
.TP
-.B \-2,\-v
+.BR \-2 , " \-v"
Make a Minix version 2 filesystem.
.TP
.B \-3