wipefs: add --lock and LOCK_BLOCK_DEVICE

[thirdparty/util-linux.git] / disk-utils / raw.8

diff --git a/disk-utils/raw.8 b/disk-utils/raw.8
index 5a3b96e3ce6f3ba7e1c668dae8249be757a142f4..ba9fd256a81b302fdbc141e49b925afde0f3dce7 100644 (file)
--- a/disk-utils/raw.8
+++ b/disk-utils/raw.8
@@ -75,6 +75,10 @@ Display help text and exit.
 \fB\-V\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR
 Display version information and exit.
 
+.SH NOTES
+Rather than using raw devices applications should prefer
+.BR open (2)
+devices, such as /dev/sda1, with the O_DIRECT flag.
 .SH BUGS
 The Linux
 .BR dd (1)
@@ -88,11 +92,7 @@ device buffer cache.  If you use raw I/O to overwrite data already in
 the buffer cache, the buffer cache will no longer correspond to the
 contents of the actual storage device underneath.  This is deliberate,
 but is regarded either a bug or a feature depending on who you ask!
-.SH NOTES
-Rather than using raw devices applications should prefer
-.BR open (2)
-devices, such as /dev/sda1, with the O_DIRECT flag.
-.SH AUTHOR
+.SH AUTHORS
 Stephen Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
 .SH AVAILABILITY
 The raw command is part of the util-linux package and is available from