Attachment 16883 Details for Bug 30809 – file.diff

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>--- sbin/i386/fdisk/fdisk.8.orig	Thu Aug 16 13:35:43 2001
>+++ sbin/i386/fdisk/fdisk.8	Sun Sep 23 02:42:24 2001
>@@ -131,10 +131,11 @@
> .Ql ad0 ,
> and
> .Ql da0
>-are being searched in that order, until one is
>-being found responding.
>+are searched in that order, until one is found to respond.
> .Pp
>-When called with no arguments, it prints the sector 0 partition table.
>+When called with no arguments,
>+.Nm
>+prints the sector 0 partition table.
> An example follows:
> .Bd -literal
> 	******* Working on device /dev/ad0 *******
>@@ -180,18 +181,17 @@
> .It Em "flag 80"
> specifies that this is the active partition.
> .It Em cyl , sector No and Em head
>-fields are used to specify the beginning address
>-and end address for the partition.
>+fields are used to specify the beginning and end addresses of the partition.
> .It Em Note :
> these numbers are calculated using BIOS's understanding of the disk geometry
> and saved in the bootblock.
> .El
> .Pp
>-The flags
>+The
> .Fl i
> or
> .Fl u
>-are used to indicate that the partition data is to be updated, unless the
>+flags are used to indicate that the partition data is to be updated, unless the
> .Fl f
> option is used.  If the
> .Fl f
>@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@
> selects defaults for its questions to guarantee the above behavior.
> .Pp
> It displays each partition
>-and ask if you want to edit it.
>+and asks whether you want to edit it.
> If you say yes,
> it will step through each field showing the old value
> and asking for a new one.
>@@ -227,20 +227,18 @@
> .Em active
> partition.
> Finally,
>-when the all the data for the first sector has been accumulated,
>-you are asked if you really want to rewrite sector 0.
>-Only if you answer yes,
>-will the data be written to disk.
>+when all the data for sector 0 has been accumulated,
>+you are asked to confirm whether you really want to rewrite it.
> .Pp
> The difference between the
> .Fl u
>-flag and
>+and
> .Fl i
>-flag is that
>+flags is that
> the
> .Fl u
>-flag just edits the fields as they appear on the disk.
>-While the
>+flag just edits (updates) the fields as they appear on the disk,
>+while the
> .Fl i
> flag is used to "initialize" sector 0;
> it will setup the last BIOS partition to use the whole disk for
>@@ -248,9 +246,9 @@
> and make it active.
> .Sh NOTES
> The automatic calculation of starting cylinder etc. uses
>-a set of figures that represent what the BIOS thinks is the
>-geometry of the drive.
>-These figures are by default taken from the incore disklabel,
>+a set of figures that represent what the BIOS thinks the
>+geometry of the drive is.
>+These figures are taken from the incore disklabel by default,
> but the program initially gives you an opportunity to change them.
> This allows the user to create a bootblock that can work with drives
> that use geometry translation under the BIOS.
>@@ -276,7 +274,7 @@
> from a
> .Ar configfile .
> The syntax of this file is very simple.  Each line is either a comment or
>-a specification, and whitespace (except for newlines) are ignored:
>+a specification, and whitespace (except for newlines) is not significant:
> .Bl -tag -width Ds
> .It Xo
> .Ic #

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