docs/157467: grammar and style nits in gpart.8
Ben Kaduk
kaduk at mit.edu
Tue May 31 16:50:05 UTC 2011
>Number: 157467
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: grammar and style nits in gpart.8
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Tue May 31 16:50:05 UTC 2011
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Ben Kaduk
>Release: 9-current
>Organization:
MIT SIPB
>Environment:
n/a
>Description:
The attached patch fixes a few grammar nits in the man page, and corrects style by starting a sentence on a new line.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Patch attached with submission follows:
--- gpart.8.orig 2011-05-31 12:25:46.000000000 -0400
+++ gpart.8 2011-05-31 12:42:31.000000000 -0400
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD: src/sbin/geom/class/part/gpart.8,v 1.31 2011/05/30 11:17:42 ae Exp $
.\"
-.Dd May 30, 2011
+.Dd May 31, 2011
.Dt GPART 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -794,12 +794,12 @@
command.
This command does reconstruction of corrupt metadata using
known valid metadata.
-Also it can relocate secondary GPT to the end of device.
+Also it can relocate the secondary GPT to the end of device.
.Pp
.Pa NOTE :
The GEOM class PART can detect the same partition table on different GEOM
providers and some of them will be marked as corrupt.
-Be careful when choosing a provider for recovering.
+Be careful when choosing a provider for recovery.
If you choose incorrectly you can destroy the metadata of another GEOM class,
e.g. GEOM MIRROR or GEOM LABEL.
.Sh SYSCTL VARIABLES
@@ -812,10 +812,11 @@
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Va kern.geom.part.check_integrity : No 1
This variable controls the behaviour of metadata integrity checks.
-When integrity checks are enabled
+When integrity checks are enabled, the
.Nm PART
GEOM class verifies all generic partition parameters that it gets from the
-disk metadata. If some inconsistency is detected, partition table will be
+disk metadata.
+If some inconsistency is detected, the partition table will be
rejected with a diagnostic message:
.Pa GEOM_PART: Integrity check failed (provider, scheme) .
.Sh EXIT STATUS
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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