From: Bjarni Ingi Gislason Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 02:29:48 +0000 (+0000) Subject: mkswap: Some minor typographical corrections to the manual X-Git-Tag: v2.25-rc1~305 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=969797549882ffb7f958dc0b037978824fe85a9c;p=thirdparty%2Futil-linux.git mkswap: Some minor typographical corrections to the manual -- changed to \(en (an en-dash) if it is a dash (pause, separation) - changed to \- if it indicates an option A full stop (.), that begins or ends a string, protected with \& Space between sentences corrected to two word spaces -- changed to \-\- if it indicates an option Signed-off-by: Karel Zak --- diff --git a/disk-utils/mkswap.8 b/disk-utils/mkswap.8 index e08aa03ce0..b4bb7d677a 100644 --- a/disk-utils/mkswap.8 +++ b/disk-utils/mkswap.8 @@ -32,14 +32,14 @@ parameter is superfluous but retained for backwards compatibility. (It specifies the desired size of the swap area in 1024-byte blocks. .B mkswap will use the entire partition or file if it is omitted. -Specifying it is unwise -- a typo may destroy your disk.) +Specifying it is unwise \(en a typo may destroy your disk.) After creating the swap area, you need the .B swapon command to start using it. Usually swap areas are listed in .I /etc/fstab so that they can be taken into use at boot time by a -.B swapon -a +.B swapon \-a command in some boot script. .SH WARNING @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ like many others mkfs-like utils, However, .B mkswap refuses to erase the first block on a device with a disk -label (SUN, BSD, ...). +label (SUN, BSD, \&...\&). .SH OPTIONS .TP @@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ The maximum useful size of a swap area depends on the architecture and the kernel version. The maximum number of the pages that is possible to address by swap area header -is 4294967295 (UINT_MAX). The remaining space on the swap device is ignored. +is 4294967295 (UINT_MAX). The remaining space on the swap device is ignored. Presently, Linux allows 32 swap areas. The areas in use can be seen in the file @@ -115,17 +115,17 @@ The areas in use can be seen in the file refuses areas smaller than 10 pages. If you don't know the page size that your machine uses, you may be -able to look it up with "cat /proc/cpuinfo" (or you may not -- +able to look it up with "cat /proc/cpuinfo" (or you may not \(en the contents of this file depend on architecture and kernel version). To set up a swap file, it is necessary to create that file before initializing it with .BR mkswap , -e.g. using a command like +e.g.\& using a command like .nf .RS -# fallocate --length 8GiB swapfile +# fallocate \-\-length 8GiB swapfile .RE .fi