Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 22:30:24 GMT From: Ian <cdine@cdine.org> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: misc/77280: Typo in swapon man page Message-ID: <200502082230.j18MUOKK023165@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200502082240.j18MeCAm048125@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 77280
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: Typo in swapon man page
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Tue Feb 08 22:40:12 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Ian
>Release: FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE
>Organization:
Negative Nine Security (Neg9)
>Environment:
FreeBSD dedication.neg9.org 5.3-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p2 #0: Mon Jan 3 02:17:43 PST 2005
root@dedication.neg9.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMIRNOFF i386
>Description:
Snipped from `man swapon` (Yes, swapon, swapinfo does not say to use -h) on FreeBSD -- 5.3-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p2 #0: Mon Jan 3 02:17:43 PST 2005
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SWAPON(8) FreeBSD System Manager's Manual SWAPON(8)
NAME
swapon, swapoff, swapctl -- specify devices for paging and swapping
..
Swap information can be generated using the swapinfo(8) utility, pstat
-s, or swapctl -l. The swapctl utility has the following options for
listing swap:
-h Output values in megabytes.
..
HISTORY
The swapon utility appeared in 4.0BSD. The swapoff and swapctl utilities
appeared in FreeBSD 5.1.
FreeBSD 5.3 December 28, 2002 FreeBSD 5.3
==============================
-h Is not a valid option of swapinfo, as demonstrated here:
# swapinfo -h
swapinfo: illegal option -- h
usage: swapinfo [-k] [-M core [-N system]]
# swapinfo -k
Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity
/dev/ad0s1b 1572864 31132 1541732 2%
>How-To-Repeat:
# man swapon, search for "-h" i.e. if your viwer is more, type "/" and then "-h" followed by a return.
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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