Add vcount.9 / count_dev.9.

Touched up a bit and added some consistency to the text by your's truly.

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Submitted by:	Andrew Stevenson <andrew@ugh.net.au>

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+.\" -*- nroff -*-
+.\"
+.\" Copyright (c) 2000 Andrew Stevenson
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+.\"     Andrew <andrew@ugh.net.au>
+.\"
+.\" $FreeBSD$
+.\"
+.Dd February 6th, 2001
+.Os
+.Dt VCOUNT 9
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm vcount ,
+.Nm count_dev
+.Nd get total number of references to a device.
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Fd #include <sys/types.h>
+.Fd #include <sys/conf.h>
+.Fd #include <sys/vnode.h>
+.Ft int
+.Fn vcount "struct vnode *vp"
+.Ft int
+.Fn count_dev "dev_t dev"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+.Fn vcount
+is used to get the number of references to a particular device.
+It allows for the fact that multiple vnodes may reference the same device.
+.Fn count_dev
+does the same thing as vcount,
+but takes a dev_t rather than a vnode pointer as an argument.
+.Sh RETURN VALUES
+.Fn vcount
+and
+.Fn count_dev
+both return the number of references to the device.
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr VFS 9 ,
+.Xr vnode 9 ,
+.Pa src/sys/kern/vfs_subr.c
+.Sh AUTHORS
+This man page was written by
+.An Andrew Stevenson .