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authorru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2004-07-02 22:22:35 +0000
committerru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2004-07-02 22:22:35 +0000
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Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks.
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diff --git a/usr.bin/vmstat/vmstat.8 b/usr.bin/vmstat/vmstat.8
index e3fe78e..4fe1758 100644
--- a/usr.bin/vmstat/vmstat.8
+++ b/usr.bin/vmstat/vmstat.8
@@ -114,7 +114,8 @@ allocation and then by type of usage.
.It Fl n
Change the maximum number of disks to display from the default of 2.
.It Fl p
-Specify which types of devices to display. There are three different
+Specify which types of devices to display.
+There are three different
categories of devices:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
@@ -166,15 +167,18 @@ Passthrough devices
.El
.Pp
The user must specify at least one device type, and may specify at most
-one device type from each category. Multiple device types in a single
+one device type from each category.
+Multiple device types in a single
device type statement must be separated by commas.
.Pp
Any number of
.Fl p
-arguments may be specified on the command line. All
+arguments may be specified on the command line.
+All
.Fl p
arguments are ORed together to form a matching expression against which
-all devices in the system are compared. Any device that fully matches
+all devices in the system are compared.
+Any device that fully matches
any
.Fl p
argument will be included in the
@@ -262,7 +266,8 @@ If more than three disk drives are configured in the system,
.Nm
displays only the first three drives, unless the user specifies the
.Fl n
-argument to increase the number of drives displayed. This will probably
+argument to increase the number of drives displayed.
+This will probably
cause the display to exceed 80 columns, however.
To force
.Nm
@@ -272,7 +277,8 @@ The
utility
defaults to show disks first, and then various other random devices in the
system to add up to three devices, if there are that many devices in the
-system. If devices are specified on the command line, or if a device type
+system.
+If devices are specified on the command line, or if a device type
matching pattern is specified (see above),
.Nm
will only display the given devices or the devices matching the pattern,
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