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[src/trunk]: src/sbin/fdisk PR/54756: germain: Avoid confusion caused by over...
details: https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/cc71f5559fe0
branches: trunk
changeset: 847211:cc71f5559fe0
user: christos <christos%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date: Sat Dec 14 20:46:13 2019 +0000
description:
PR/54756: germain: Avoid confusion caused by overuse of the word "file" both
as a noun and an argument name.
diffstat:
sbin/fdisk/fdisk.8 | 18 +++++++++---------
1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diffs (57 lines):
diff -r 414e2050a260 -r cc71f5559fe0 sbin/fdisk/fdisk.8
--- a/sbin/fdisk/fdisk.8 Sat Dec 14 20:41:58 2019 +0000
+++ b/sbin/fdisk/fdisk.8 Sat Dec 14 20:46:13 2019 +0000
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: fdisk.8,v 1.88 2019/04/09 09:03:41 tnn Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: fdisk.8,v 1.89 2019/12/14 20:46:13 christos Exp $
.\"
-.Dd April 9, 2019
+.Dd December 14, 2019
.Dt FDISK 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
.Fl 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | E Ar number
.Op Fl s Oo Ar id Oc Ns Oo / Ns Oo Ar start Oc Ns Oo / Ns Oo Ar size Oc Ns Oo / Ns Oo Ar bootmenu Oc Oc Oc Oc
.Oc
-.Op Fl r Ar file | Fl w Ar file
+.Op Fl r Ar bootfile | Fl w Ar bootfile
.Op Fl A Ar ptn_alignment Ns Bq Ar /ptn_0_offset
.Op Fl b Ar cylinders/heads/sectors
.Op Fl c Ar bootcode
@@ -282,9 +282,9 @@
Lists known
.Em sysid
values and exit.
-.It Fl r Ar file
+.It Fl r Ar bootfile
Read the boot record from file
-.Ar file
+.Ar bootfile
instead of the specified disk.
The geometry information used is still that of the disk volume.
Any changes are written back to the file.
@@ -386,9 +386,9 @@
with
.Fl u
allows the user to change more parameters than normally permitted.
-.It Fl w Ar file
+.It Fl w Ar bootfile
Write the modified partition table to file
-.Ar file
+.Ar bootfile
instead of the disk.
.It Fl z Ar sectorsize
Specify a sector size other than 512, for devices that only
@@ -585,9 +585,9 @@
You should run this program interactively once or twice to see how it works.
This is completely safe as long as you answer the last question in the negative.
You can also specify
-.Fl w Ar file
+.Fl w Ar bootfile
to write the output to a file and later specify
-.Fl r Ar file
+.Fl r Ar bootfile
to read back the updated information.
This can be done without having write access to the disk volume.
.Sh FILES
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