Module Name: src
Committed By: spz
Date: Tue Jan 4 21:42:10 UTC 2011
Modified Files:
src/sbin/dkctl: dkctl.8
Log Message:
add notes what 'device' is and also rub in that addwedge doesn't
create stuff on disk a bit more.
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cvs rdiff -u -r1.21 -r1.22 src/sbin/dkctl/dkctl.8
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Modified files:
Index: src/sbin/dkctl/dkctl.8
diff -u src/sbin/dkctl/dkctl.8:1.21 src/sbin/dkctl/dkctl.8:1.22
--- src/sbin/dkctl/dkctl.8:1.21 Tue May 18 23:33:03 2010
+++ src/sbin/dkctl/dkctl.8 Tue Jan 4 21:42:10 2011
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: dkctl.8,v 1.21 2010/05/18 23:33:03 wiz Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: dkctl.8,v 1.22 2011/01/04 21:42:10 spz Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright 2002 Wasabi Systems, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@
in various ways.
It is used by specifying a disk to manipulate, the command
to perform, and any arguments the command may require.
+.Ar device
+is the disk (wdN, sdN, ...) containing the wedges unless noted otherwise.
If
.Nm
is called without any command, it displays strategy, cache, and all of
@@ -120,6 +122,11 @@
and spanning
.Ar blkcnt
blocks.
+You need to create the partition first with
+.Xr fdisk 8
+or
+.Xr gpt 8 ,
+dkctl will just name it.
The wedge will have the volume name
.Ar name
and the partition type
@@ -153,6 +160,8 @@
from the specified disk.
.It Ic getwedgeinfo
Display information about the specified disk wedge.
+.Ar device
+in this case is the wedge name.
.It Ic listwedges
List all of the wedges configured on the specified disk.
.It Ic strategy Op Ar name
