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| author | Benno Schulenberg | 2014-12-14 20:45:29 +0100 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2014-12-19 09:57:23 +0100 |
| commit | f49ccec2123f15ce25a2e9d7d83d219c237e755a (patch) | |
| tree | aa9a161b36061c433e0832d9e5739f56c546c857 /disk-utils/sfdisk.8 | |
| parent | docs: improve the sorting of the options in the man page of getopt (diff) | |
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docs: don't use bold or italics for "[option]" in synopsis of man pages
As per the convention shown in Documentation/howto-man-page.txt.
Also make a few other tiny adjustments along the way.
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'disk-utils/sfdisk.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | disk-utils/sfdisk.8 | 18 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/disk-utils/sfdisk.8 b/disk-utils/sfdisk.8 index 08725fd42..62b1dcf4a 100644 --- a/disk-utils/sfdisk.8 +++ b/disk-utils/sfdisk.8 @@ -15,14 +15,14 @@ sfdisk \- display or manipulate a disk partition table .SH SYNOPSIS .B sfdisk -.RB [ options ] -.RI device -.BR [ \-N -.IR partno ] +[options] +.I device +.RB [ \-N +.IR partition-number ] .sp .B sfdisk -.RB [ options ] -.RI command +[options] +.I command .SH DESCRIPTION .B sfdisk is a script oriented tool for partitioning any block device. @@ -48,10 +48,10 @@ partitions. .SH COMMANDS The commands are mutually exclusive. .TP -.BR [\-N " \fIpartno\fR"] " " \fIdevice\fR -The default sfdisk command is to read the specification for the desired +.RB [ \-N " \fIpartition-number\fR] " \fIdevice\fR +The default sfdisk command is to read the specification for the desired partitioning of \fIdevice\fR from standard input, and then create a partition -table according to the specification. See below description of the input +table according to the specification. See below for the description of the input format. If the standard input is a terminal then sfdisk starts interactive session. If the option \fB\-N\fR specified then the changes are applied to the partition |