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docs: miscellaneous tiny tweaks of man pages 

Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
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Benno Schulenberg 2016-03-17 10:54:31 +01:00 committed by Karel Zak
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disk-utils/fdisk.8
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.\" Copyright 2012 Davidlohr Bueso <dave@gnu.org>
.\" Copyright (C) 2013 Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
.\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License
.TH FDISK 8 "September 2013" "util-linux" "System Administration"
.TH FDISK 8 "February 2016" "util-linux" "System Administration"
.SH NAME
fdisk \- manipulate disk partition table
@ -54,10 +54,10 @@ between logical and physical sector size. This option changes both sector sizes
.IB sectorsize .
.TP
\fB\-B\fR, \fB\-\-protect\-boot\fP
Don't erase the begin of the first disk sector when create a new disk label. This
Don't erase the begin of the first disk sector when create a new disk label. This
feature is supported for GPT and MBR.
.TP
\fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-compatibility\fR[\fI=mode\fR]
\fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-compatibility\fR[=\fImode\fR]
Specify the compatibility mode, 'dos' or 'nondos'. The default is non-DOS
mode. For backward compatibility, it is possible to use the option without
the \fImode\fR argument -- then the default is used. Note that the optional
@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ in favour of
Enable support only for disklabels of the specified \fItype\fP, and disable
support for all other types.
.TP
\fB\-u\fR, \fB\-\-units\fR[\fI=unit\fR]
\fB\-u\fR, \fB\-\-units\fR[=\fIunit\fR]
When listing partition tables, show sizes in 'sectors' or in 'cylinders'. The
default is to show sizes in sectors. For backward compatibility, it is possible
to use the option without the \fIunit\fR argument -- then the default is used.

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misc-utils/cal.1
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\fB\-Y, \fB\-\-twelve\fR
Display a calendar for the next twelve months.
.TP
\fB\-w\fR, \fB\-\-week\fR[\fI=number\fR]
\fB\-w\fR, \fB\-\-week\fR[=\fInumber\fR]
Display week numbers in the calendar (US or ISO-8601).
.TP
\fB\-\-color\fR[\fI=when\fR]
\fB\-\-color\fR[=\fIwhen\fR]
Colorize the output. The optional argument \fIwhen\fP
can be \fBauto\fR, \fBnever\fR or \fBalways\fR. If the \fIwhen\fR argument is omitted,
it defaults to \fBauto\fR. The colors can be disabled; for the current built-in default

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sys-utils/fallocate.1
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.TH FALLOCATE 1 "September 2011" "util-linux" "User Commands"
.TH FALLOCATE 1 "April 2014" "util-linux" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
fallocate \- preallocate or deallocate space to a file
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B fallocate
.RB [ \-c | \-p | -z ]
.RB [ \-c | \-p | \-z ]
.RB [ \-o
.IR offset ]
.B \-l

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sys-utils/mount.8
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@ -2374,7 +2374,7 @@ By default, the files are owned by root and not readable by somebody else.
.SS "Mount options for overlay"
Since Linux 3.18 the overlay pseudo filesystem implements a union mount for
other file systems.
other filesystems.
An overlay filesystem combines two filesystems - an \fBupper\fR filesystem and
a \fBlower\fR filesystem. When a name exists in both filesystems, the object
@ -2384,9 +2384,9 @@ either hidden or, in the case of directories, merged with the upper object.
The lower filesystem can be any filesystem supported by Linux and does not need
to be writable. The lower filesystem can even be another overlayfs. The upper
filesystem will normally be writable and if it is it must support the creation
of trusted.* extended attributes, and must provide valid d_type in readdir
of trusted.* extended attributes, and must provide a valid d_type in readdir
responses, so NFS is not suitable.
A read-only overlay of two read-only filesystems may use any filesystem type.
The options \fBlowerdir\fR and \fBupperdir\fR are combined into a merged
directory by using:
@ -2616,10 +2616,8 @@ mount options. It can be added later, when the tmpfs is already mounted
on MountPoint, by 'mount \-o remount,mpol=Policy:NodeList MountPoint'.
.SS "Mount options for ubifs"
UBIFS is a flash file system which works on top of UBI volumes. Note that
.B
atime
is not supported and is always turned off.
UBIFS is a flash filesystem which works on top of UBI volumes. Note that
\fBatime\fR is not supported and is always turned off.
.TP
The device name may be specified as
.RS

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.\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by
.\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work.
.\"
.TH TAILF 1 "July 2014" "util-linux" "User Commands"
.TH TAILF 1 "March 2015" "util-linux" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
tailf \- follow the growth of a log file
.SH SYNOPSIS
@ -30,10 +30,10 @@ tailf \- follow the growth of a log file
.I file
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B tailf is deprecated.
It may have unfixed bugs and will be removed in March 2017. Nowadays it's safe
to use
It may have unfixed bugs and will be removed from util-linux in March 2017.
Nowadays it's safe to use
.B tail -f
(coreutils) in contrast to the original documentation below.
(from coreutils), in contrast to what the original documentation below says.
.PP
.B tailf
will print out the last 10 lines of the given \fIfile\fR and then wait
@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ does not occur periodically when no log activity is happening.
.PP
.B tailf
is extremely useful for monitoring log files on a laptop when logging is
infrequent and the user desires that the hard disk spin down to conserve
infrequent and the user wishes the hard disk to spin down to conserve
battery life.
.TP
.BR \-n , " -\-lines=\fInumber\fR" , " \-\fInumber\fR"