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[src/trunk]: src/share/man/man1/man1.atari grammar
details: https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/1d8c81e130a1
branches: trunk
changeset: 965078:1d8c81e130a1
user: sevan <sevan%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date: Sun Sep 01 12:50:22 2019 +0000
description:
grammar
address warnings from mandoc -Tlint while here.
diffstat:
share/man/man1/man1.atari/edahdi.1 | 38 +++++++++++++++++++-------------------
1 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
diffs (121 lines):
diff -r b7735410222e -r 1d8c81e130a1 share/man/man1/man1.atari/edahdi.1
--- a/share/man/man1/man1.atari/edahdi.1 Sun Sep 01 11:44:23 2019 +0000
+++ b/share/man/man1/man1.atari/edahdi.1 Sun Sep 01 12:50:22 2019 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: edahdi.1,v 1.11 2009/10/20 19:10:10 snj Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: edahdi.1,v 1.12 2019/09/01 12:50:22 sevan Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1996 Leo Weppelman
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd May 16, 1996
+.Dd September 1, 2019
.Dt EDAHDI 1 atari
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -35,16 +35,16 @@
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
allows you to modify the partition identifiers on a disk partitioned with
-AHDI or an AHDI compatible formatter. An AHDI partition format is usually
-only present on disks shared between
+AHDI or an AHDI compatible formatter.
+An AHDI partition format is usually only present on disks shared between
.Nx
-and some other OS. The partition identifiers are used by
+and some other OS.
+The partition identifiers are used by
.Nx
as a guideline to emulate a disklabel on such a disk.
.Pp
.Nm
supports the following options:
-.Pp
.Bl -tag -width device
.It Ar device
The name of the raw device you want to edit.
@@ -52,13 +52,12 @@
.Pp
The following partition identifiers are recognized by
.Nx :
-.Pp
.Bl -tag -width "GEM or BGM" -compact
.It NBD
Partition is reserved for
.Nx .
-This can be either a root or an user partition. The first NBD
-partition on a disk will be mapped to partition
+This can be either a root or an user partition.
+The first NBD partition on a disk will be mapped to partition
.Em a
in
.Nx .
@@ -72,7 +71,8 @@
.It GEM or BGM
These partitions are mapped from
.Em d
-up. The filesystem type is msdos.
+up.
+The filesystem type is msdos.
.It NBR
.Nx
root partition (deprecated).
@@ -84,8 +84,7 @@
swap partition (deprecated).
.El
.Sh EXAMPLES
-Say, you have a disk with that is partitioned like:
-.Pp
+Say, you have a disk that is partitioned like:
.Bl -column Number Id
.It Sy "Number" Ta Sy "Id"
.It 1 Ta GEM
@@ -97,7 +96,6 @@
This partitioning will show up in
.Nx
as (Number refers to the first table):
-.Pp
.Bl -column "c (whole disk)" "Fstype" "Number"
.It Sy Partition Ta Sy Fstype Ta Sy Number
.It c (whole disk) Ta unused Ta ""
@@ -107,10 +105,10 @@
.It g (user part) Ta MSDOS Ta 4
.El
.Pp
-Now you decide to change the id of partition 2 and 3 to NBD. Now
+Now you decide to change the id of partition 2 and 3 to NBD.
+Now
.Nx
will show the partitioning as (Number refers to the first table):
-.Pp
.Bl -column "c (whole disk)" "Fstype" "Number"
.It Sy Partition Ta Sy Fstype Ta Sy Number
.It a (root) Ta 4.2BSD Ta 2
@@ -121,7 +119,8 @@
.El
.Pp
You will notice that the order of the partitions has changed! You will have
-to watchout for this. It is a consequence of
+to watchout for this.
+It is a consequence of
.Nx
habit of assigning a predefined meaning to the partitions
.Em a/b
@@ -138,10 +137,11 @@
.Sh BUGS
The changes made to the AHDI partitions will become active on the next
.Em first open
-of the device. You are advised to use
+of the device.
+You are advised to use
.Nm
-only on a device without any mounted or otherwise active partitions. This
-is not enforced by
+only on a device without any mounted or otherwise active partitions.
+This is not enforced by
.Nm .
This is particularly confusing when your change caused partitions to shift,
as shown in the example above.
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