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diff --git a/share/man/man9/g_provider.9 b/share/man/man9/g_provider.9 index 914338b..05e4add 100644 --- a/share/man/man9/g_provider.9 +++ b/share/man/man9/g_provider.9 @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" .Dd January 16, 2004 -.Dt g_provider 9 +.Dt G_PROVIDER 9 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm g_new_providerf , @@ -43,16 +43,20 @@ .Sh DESCRIPTION A GEOM provider is the front gate at which a geom offers service. A provider is -.Dq a disk\-like thing which appears in Pa /dev -\- a logical disk in other words. +.Dq a disk-like thing which appears in Pa /dev +\[en] a logical disk in other words. All providers have three main properties: name, sectorsize and size. .Pp The .Fn g_new_providerf function creates a new provider on given geom .Fa gp . -The name of the provider, which will appear as device in devfs, is created -in a printf-like way from the rest of +The name of the provider, which will appear as device in +.Xr devfs 5 , +is created +in a +.Xr printf 3 Ns +-like way from the rest of the arguments. After creation, the caller has to set the provider's .Va mediasize |
