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Date:      08 Feb 2003 17:52:38 -0800
From:      "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@attbi.com>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   docs/48104: disktab(1) manpage omits b0 and b1, etc.
Message-ID:  <0qlm0qb4pl.m0q@localhost.localdomain>

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>Number:         48104
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       disktab(1) manpage omits b0 and b1, etc.
>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:   Sat Feb 08 18:00:25 PST 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Gary W. Swearingen
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE i386
>Organization:
none
>Environment:
n/a
================
>Description:

1) The manpage omits descriptions of b0 and b1 fields.
2) The manpage uses "entry" to refer to both "entry" and "field".
3) The entry field column heading "Name" can be confused with an entry's
"Name" field.
4) Some description could be improved.
================
>How-To-Repeat:
n/a
================
>Fix:

Patch base on
.\" $FreeBSD: src/share/man/man5/disktab.5,v 1.4.2.5 2001/12/17 11:30:13 ru Exp $

--- /pr/work/disktab..orig.5	Sat Feb  8 16:40:14 2003
+++ /pr/work/disktab.5	Sat Feb  8 17:14:53 2003
@@ -54,16 +54,15 @@
 .Xr termcap 5
 terminal data base.  Entries in
 .Nm
-consist of a number of `:' separated fields.  The
-first entry for each disk gives the names which are
-known for the disk, separated by `|' characters.  The
+consist of a number of `:'-separated fields.  The
+first field for each entry gives the names by which a
+disk's entry may be selected, separated by `|' characters.  The
 last name given should be a long name fully identifying
 the disk.
 .Pp
-The following list indicates the normal values
-stored for each disk entry.
+The optional fields for each entry are:
 .Bl -column "indent" "boolx"
-.It Sy "Name	Type	Description"
+.It Sy "ID	Type	Description"
 .It "\&ty	str	Type of disk (e.g. removable, winchester)"
 .It "\&dt	str	Type of controller (e.g."
 .Tn SMD , ESDI ,
@@ -86,6 +85,8 @@
 .It "\&d[0-4]	num	Drive-type-dependent parameters"
 .It "\&bs	num	Boot block size, default"
 .Dv BBSIZE
+.It "\&b[0-1]	num	Boot block filenames; see"
+.Xr disklabel 8
 .It "\&sb	num	Superblock size, default"
 .Dv SBSIZE
 .It "\&ba	num	Block size for partition `a' (bytes)"
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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