From 449a215fc50bfa27c4b0f0cb14d1ce04750762c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benno Schulenberg Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 11:14:42 +0200 Subject: docs: tweak the formatting and wording of several disk-utils man pages Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg --- disk-utils/raw.8 | 20 +++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) (limited to 'disk-utils/raw.8') diff --git a/disk-utils/raw.8 b/disk-utils/raw.8 index b85080a5a..0e47843c6 100644 --- a/disk-utils/raw.8 +++ b/disk-utils/raw.8 @@ -9,12 +9,10 @@ raw \- bind a Linux raw character device .B raw .I /dev/raw/raw /dev/ .PP -.B raw -.B \-q +.B raw \-q .I /dev/raw/raw .PP -.B raw -.B \-qa +.B raw \-qa .SH DESCRIPTION .B raw is used to bind a Linux raw character device to a block device. Any @@ -38,7 +36,7 @@ to an existing block device file. .PP The bindings already in existence can be queried with the .I \-q -option, with is used either with a raw device filename to query that one +option, which is used either with a raw device filename to query that one device, or with the .I \-a option to query all bound raw devices. @@ -70,16 +68,16 @@ will query an existing binding instead of setting a new one. .B -a With .B -q -, specifies that all bound raw devices should be queried. +, specify that all bound raw devices should be queried. .TP .B -h -provides a usage summary. +Provide a usage summary. .SH BUGS The Linux -.B dd -(1) command should be used without bs= option or the blocksize needs to be a -multiple of the sector size of the device (512 bytes usually) otherwise it -will fail with "Invalid Argument" messages (EINVAL). +.BR dd (1) +command should be used without the \fBbs=\fR option, or the blocksize +needs to be a multiple of the sector size of the device (512 bytes usually), +otherwise it will fail with "Invalid Argument" messages (EINVAL). .PP Raw I/O devices do not maintain cache coherency with the Linux block -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522