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| author | Peter Breitenlohner <peb@mppmu.mpg.de> | 2009-07-22 11:29:04 +0200 |
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| committer | Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> | 2009-08-17 12:11:10 +0200 |
| commit | e584ccb86377164c58d9e91ceb7a67dc8994a1a6 (patch) | |
| tree | 3612b697c7a6285bb2379fba4ecac8fb0adeccee | |
| parent | f881abbc161b9c07150ca538c03dcf5e69106ab9 (diff) | |
| download | util-linux-old-e584ccb86377164c58d9e91ceb7a67dc8994a1a6.tar.gz | |
mkswap.8: formatting
Signed-off-by: Peter Breitenlohner <peb@mppmu.mpg.de>
| -rw-r--r-- | disk-utils/mkswap.8 | 21 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/disk-utils/mkswap.8 b/disk-utils/mkswap.8 index 44ec8fd3..442850af 100644 --- a/disk-utils/mkswap.8 +++ b/disk-utils/mkswap.8 @@ -7,7 +7,16 @@ .SH NAME mkswap \- set up a Linux swap area .SH SYNOPSIS -.BI "mkswap [\-c] [\-f] [\-p " PSZ "] [\-L " label "] [\-U " uuid "] " device " [" size "]" +.B mkswap +.RB [ \-c ] +.RB [ \-f ] +.RB [ \-p +.IR PSZ ] +.RB [ \-L +.IR label ] +.RB [ \-U +.IR uuid ] +.RI [ size ] .SH DESCRIPTION .B mkswap sets up a Linux swap area on a device or in a file. @@ -80,14 +89,14 @@ Without this option will refuse to erase the first block on a device with a partition table or on whole disk (e.g. /dec/sda). .TP -.BI "\-p " PSZ +.BI \-p \ PSZ Specify the page size to use. .TP -.BI "\-L " label +.BI \-L \ label Specify a label, to allow swapon by label. (Only for new style swap areas.) .TP -.B \-v0, \-v1 +.BR \-v0 , \ \-v1 Specify the swap space version. This option is deprecated and \-v1 is supported only. @@ -95,7 +104,7 @@ The kernel has not supported v0 swap space format since 2.5.22. The new version v1 is supported since 2.1.117. .TP -.B \-U uuid +.BI \-U \ uuid Specify the uuid to use. The default is to generate UUIDs. .SH NOTES @@ -123,7 +132,7 @@ the contents of this file depend on architecture and kernel version). To setup a swap file, it is necessary to create that file before initializing it with -.B mkswap , +.BR mkswap , e.g. using a command like .nf |