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authorcharnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org>2002-07-14 14:47:15 +0000
committercharnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org>2002-07-14 14:47:15 +0000
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The .Nm utility
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-rw-r--r--usr.sbin/iostat/iostat.817
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/iostat/iostat.8 b/usr.sbin/iostat/iostat.8
index c93dcb4..9e38e92 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/iostat/iostat.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/iostat/iostat.8
@@ -84,8 +84,9 @@ statistics
.Op Fl w Ar wait
.Op Ar drives
.Sh DESCRIPTION
-.Nm Iostat
-displays kernel
+The
+.Nm
+utility displays kernel
.Tn I/O
statistics on terminal, device and cpu operations.
The first statistics that are printed are averaged over the system uptime.
@@ -138,8 +139,9 @@ instead of the default
Display up to
.Ar devs
number of devices.
+The
.Nm
-will display fewer devices if there aren't
+utility will display fewer devices if there aren't
.Ar devs
devices present.
.It Fl N
@@ -241,8 +243,9 @@ is specified, the default is infinity.
Display a usage statement and exit.
.El
.Pp
-.Nm Iostat
-displays its information in the following format:
+The
+.Nm
+utility displays its information in the following format:
.Bl -tag -width flag
.It tty
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
@@ -254,7 +257,9 @@ characters written to terminals
.It devices
Device operations.
The header of the field is the device name and unit number.
+The
.Nm
+utility
will display as many devices as will fit in a standard 80 column screen, or
the maximum number of devices in the system, whichever is smaller.
If
@@ -267,7 +272,9 @@ To force
.Nm
to display specific drives, their names may be supplied on the command
line.
+The
.Nm
+utility
will not display more devices than will fit in an 80 column screen, unless
the
.Fl n
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