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| author | Benno Schulenberg | 2014-10-27 22:18:11 +0100 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2014-10-31 10:39:08 +0100 |
| commit | b1301d78651fdf1ac072645a4bb3b06ad60f6df2 (patch) | |
| tree | 66a14b9680fb24902b51bd2abbccd96dbbb7c3ea /sys-utils/swapon.8 | |
| parent | docs: spelling, wording, and grammar fixes in the man page of whereis (diff) | |
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docs: fix some wording and formatting in man page of swapon
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'sys-utils/swapon.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | sys-utils/swapon.8 | 17 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/sys-utils/swapon.8 b/sys-utils/swapon.8 index e88e2f1b2..2aa6fe20e 100644 --- a/sys-utils/swapon.8 +++ b/sys-utils/swapon.8 @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ .\" Mon Sep 25 14:12:38 1995: Added -v and -p information .\" Tue Apr 30 03:32:07 1996: Added some text from A. Koppenhoefer .\" -.TH SWAPON 8 "July 2014" "util-linux" "System Administration" +.TH SWAPON 8 "October 2014" "util-linux" "System Administration" .SH NAME swapon, swapoff \- enable/disable devices and files for paging and swapping .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -131,14 +131,15 @@ Use the partition that has the specified is needed.) .TP .BR \-o , " \-\-options " \fIopts\fP -Specify swap options by fstab compatible comma separated string. For example: +Specify swap options by an fstab-compatible comma-separated string. +For example: .RS .RS .sp .B "swapon -o pri=1,discard=pages,nofail /dev/sda2" .sp .RE -The \fIopts\fP string is evaluated as the last and overrides all another +The \fIopts\fP string is evaluated last and overrides all other options. .RE .TP @@ -154,15 +155,15 @@ to the option field of .I /etc/fstab for use with .BR "swapon -a" . -When priority is not defined it defaults to \-1. +When no priority is defined, it defaults to \-1. .TP .BR \-s , " \-\-summary" Display swap usage summary by device. Equivalent to "cat /proc/swaps". Not available before Linux 2.1.25. This output format is DEPRECATED in favour of \fB\-\-show\fR that provides better control on output data. .TP -.BR " \-\-show" [ =\fIcolumn\fR] -Display definable table of swap areas. See +.BR \-\-show [ =\fIcolumn\fR ...] +Display a definable table of swap areas. See the .B \-\-help output for a list of available columns. .TP @@ -185,10 +186,10 @@ output instead of in user-friendly units. Use the partition that has the specified .IR uuid . .TP -.B "\-v, \-\-verbose" +.BR \-v , " \-\-verbose" Be verbose. .TP -.B "\-V, \-\-version" +.BR \-V , " \-\-version" Display version information and exit. .SH NOTES You should not use |