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authorBenno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>2008-07-31 22:25:36 +0200
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2008-08-14 13:29:50 -0400
commit954bee3414d7142ad78363c8bbf667365c1126db (patch)
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parent98794d0e0a90abc773b9a4c01d540051a5933bc1 (diff)
downloade2fsprogs-954bee3414d7142ad78363c8bbf667365c1126db.tar.gz
blkid: On the man page, show option arguments in the descriptions.
Also rephrase two sentences and add a comma or two. Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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diff --git a/misc/blkid.8.in b/misc/blkid.8.in
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--- a/misc/blkid.8.in
+++ b/misc/blkid.8.in
@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
.\" Copyright 2000 Andreas Dilger (adilger@turbolinux.com)
.\"
.\" This man page was created for blkid from e2fsprogs-1.25.
-.\"
+.\"
.\" This file may be copied under the terms of the GNU Public License.
-.\"
+.\"
.\" Based on uuidgen, Mon Sep 17 10:42:12 2000, Andreas Dilger
.TH BLKID 8 "@E2FSPROGS_MONTH@ @E2FSPROGS_YEAR@" "E2fsprogs version @E2FSPROGS_VERSION@"
.SH NAME
blkid \- command\-line utility to locate/print block device attributes
.SH SYNOPSIS
-.B blkid
+.B blkid
[
.B \-ghlLv
]
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ The
.B blkid
program is the command-line interface to working with
.BR libblkid (3)
-library. It can determine the type of content (e.g. filesystem, swap)
+library. It can determine the type of content (e.g. filesystem, swap)
a block device holds, and also attributes (tokens, NAME=value pairs)
from the content metadata (e.g. LABEL or UUID fields).
.PP
@@ -51,14 +51,14 @@ specific NAME=value pair, or displaying NAME=value pairs for one or
more devices.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
-.B \-c
+.BI \-c " cachefile"
Read from
.I cachefile
instead of reading from the default cache file
.IR /etc/blkid.tab .
If you want to start with a clean cache (i.e. don't report devices previously
scanned but not necessarily available at this time), specify
-.IR /dev/null.
+.IR /dev/null .
.TP
.B \-g
Perform a garbage collection pass on the blkid cache to remove
@@ -69,30 +69,29 @@ Display a usage message and exit.
.TP
.B \-l
Look up one device that matches the search parameter specified using
-the
+the
.B \-t
option. If there are multiple devices that match the specified search
parameter, then the device with the highest priority is returned, and/or
the first device found at a given priority. Device types in order of
decreasing priority are Device Mapper, EVMS, LVM, MD, and finally regular
-block devices. If this option is not specified,
+block devices. If this option is not specified,
.B blkid
will print all of the devices that match the search parameter.
.TP
-.B \-o
-Display
+.BI \-o " format"
+Display
.BR blkid 's
output using the specified format. The
.I format
-parameter may be
-.IR full ,
-(the default),
-.IR value ,
-(only print the value of any tags printed by
-.BR blkid)
-.IR list ,
-(print the devices in a user friendly format)
-or
+parameter may be
+.I full
+(the default),
+.I value
+(only print the value of the tags),
+.I list
+(print the devices in a user-friendly format),
+or
.I device
(only print the device name).
.TP
@@ -100,21 +99,21 @@ or
Print the devices in a user-friendly list format. This is the
equivalent of using the option \fB-o list\fR.
.TP
-.B \-s
-Show only the tags for each (specified) device that match
+.BI \-s " tag"
+For each (specified) device, show only the tags that match
.IR tag .
It is possible to specify multiple
-.B \-s
+.B \-s
options. If no tag is specified, then all tokens are shown for all
(specified) devices.
-In order to just refresh the cache without showing any tokens use
+In order to just refresh the cache without showing any tokens, use
.B "-s none"
with no other options.
.TP
-.B \-t
+.BI \-t " NAME" = "value"
Search for block devices with tokens named
.I NAME
-that have the value
+that have the value
.IR value ,
and display any devices which are found.
Common values for
@@ -124,14 +123,13 @@ include
.BR LABEL ,
and
.BR UUID .
-If there are no devices specified on the command line, all block devices
-will be searched; otherwise, only search the devices specified by the user.
+If there are no devices specified on the command line, all block devices
+will be searched; otherwise only the specified devices are searched.
.TP
.B \-v
Display version number and exit.
.TP
-.B \-w
-.I <writecachefile>
+.BI \-w " writecachefile"
Write the device cache to
.I writecachefile
instead of writing it to the default cache file
@@ -142,18 +140,18 @@ If not specified it will be the same file as that given by the
.B \-c
option.
.TP
-.I <device>
+.I device
Display tokens from only the specified device. It is possible to
give multiple
-.I <device>
+.I device
options on the command line. If none is given, all devices which
appear in
.I /proc/partitions
are shown, if they are recognized.
.SH "RETURN CODE"
If the specified token was found, or if any tags were shown from (specified)
-devices 0 is returned. If the specified token was not found, or no
-(specified) devices could be identified, an exit code of 2 is returned.
+devices, 0 is returned. If the specified token was not found, or no
+(specified) devices could be identified, an exit code of 2 is returned.
For usage or other errors, an exit code of 4 is returned.
.SH AUTHOR
.B blkid