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[src/trunk]: src/share/man/man4 Markup improvements and typo fixes.
details: https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/e8b2484c83fc
branches: trunk
changeset: 949238:e8b2484c83fc
user: wiz <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date: Wed Jan 06 10:19:27 2021 +0000
description:
Markup improvements and typo fixes.
diffstat:
share/man/man4/dk.4 | 28 +++++++++++++---------------
1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
diffs (70 lines):
diff -r 488767339c50 -r e8b2484c83fc share/man/man4/dk.4
--- a/share/man/man4/dk.4 Wed Jan 06 09:23:04 2021 +0000
+++ b/share/man/man4/dk.4 Wed Jan 06 10:19:27 2021 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: dk.4,v 1.8 2021/01/05 22:17:40 mlelstv Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: dk.4,v 1.9 2021/01/06 10:19:27 wiz Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2006 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -53,48 +53,46 @@
Wedges may be configured manually with
.Xr dkctl 8
or automatically by the kernel upon the attachment of the physical disk.
-
-Wedges needs to have a unique name. If a duplicate name is detected during
-autodiscovery, that partition is ignored.
+Wedges needs to have a unique name.
+If a duplicate name is detected during
+auto-discovery, that partition is ignored.
.Sh KERNEL OPTIONS
.Bl -tag -width DKWEDGE_METHOD_BSDLABEL
.It Dv DKWEDGE_AUTODISCOVER
Automatically detect and configure wedges using any available methods.
-Currently only DKWEDGE_METHOD_GPT and DKWEDGE_METHOD_APPLE are enabled
-by default.
-
+Currently only
+.Dv DKWEDGE_METHOD_GPT
+and
+.Dv DKWEDGE_METHOD_APPLE
+are enabled by default.
For each partition found, a wedge with a corresponding name is created.
.It Dv DKWEDGE_METHOD_BSDLABEL
BSD disklabel detection method.
-
For each configured partition in the
.Xr disklabel 5
that is not of type
-.Va FS_UNUSED,
+.Dv FS_UNUSED ,
a wedge is created and named after the
.Va d_packname
field followed by "/" and the partition letter a..p.
-
When the
.Va d_packname
-is empty or has the value "fictitious" the regular partition names
+is empty or has the value "fictitious", the regular partition names
are used as wedge names, i.e. the device name, unit number and
partition letter, for example "wd0a".
.It Dv DKWEDGE_METHOD_GPT
Extensible Firmware Interface Globally Unique Identifier Partition Table
(GPT) detection method.
-
For every GPT partition a wedge is created and named after the
partition label.
GPT partitions are UTF-16-encoded, this is converted into UTF-8.
-If a partition has no label, it's UUID is used instead.
+If a partition has no label, its UUID is used instead.
.It Dv DKWEDGE_METHOD_MBR
IBM PC-compatible Master Boot Record (MBR) partitioning detection method,
with support for Extended MBRs.
-
For every partition in the MBR a wedge is created and named like a
regular partition name, i.e. the device name, unit number and a
-parititon letter, for example "wd0e".
+partition letter, for example "wd0e".
Primary partitions start with "e", extended partitions start with "i".
.It Dv DKWEDGE_METHOD_RDB
Amiga Rigid Disk Block (RDB) partitioning detection method.
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