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authorbde <bde@FreeBSD.org>1998-11-29 13:09:01 +0000
committerbde <bde@FreeBSD.org>1998-11-29 13:09:01 +0000
commita2f2520224befb33e07ef06aca1bf12974330104 (patch)
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parent584f2f4b8fb68573d792da237caa1569fe1ea721 (diff)
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Straightened the terminology straightening in 1.17-1.18. Fixed hard
line breaks in rev.1.16-1.18.
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diff --git a/sbin/newfs/newfs.8 b/sbin/newfs/newfs.8
index 901d8b4..4eba3c7 100644
--- a/sbin/newfs/newfs.8
+++ b/sbin/newfs/newfs.8
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" @(#)newfs.8 8.6 (Berkeley) 5/3/95
-.\" $Id: newfs.8,v 1.18 1998/09/29 23:20:04 grog Exp $
+.\" $Id: newfs.8,v 1.19 1998/11/28 09:59:40 rnordier Exp $
.\"
.Dd May 3, 1995
.Dt NEWFS 8
@@ -92,12 +92,13 @@ or
the disk must be labeled using
.Xr disklabel 8 .
.Nm Newfs
-builds a file system on the specified special file. (We often refer to the
+builds a file system on the specified special file.
+(We often refer to the
.Dq special file
as the
.Dq disk ,
-although the special file need not be a physical disk. In fact, it need not
-even be special.)
+although the special file need not be a physical disk.
+In fact, it need not even be special.)
Typically the defaults are reasonable, however
.Nm
has numerous options to allow the defaults to be selectively overridden.
@@ -219,10 +220,10 @@ for more details on how to set this option.
.It Fl s Ar size
The size of the file system in sectors.
.It Fl v
-Specify that the special device does not contain any partitions, and that
+Specify that the disk does not contain any partitions, and that
.Nm
-should treat the whole slice as the file system. This option is useful for
-synthetic disks such as
+should build a file system on the whole disk.
+This option is useful for synthetic disks such as
.Nm vinum.
.El
.Pp
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