Package: util-linux Version: 2.24.1 Severity: minor File: disk-utils/mkswap.8 Tags: patch Changes: -- changed to \(en (an en-dash) if it is a dash (pause, separation) - changed to \- if it indicates an option A full stop (.), that begins or ends a string, protected with \& Space between sentences corrected to two word spaces -- changed to \-\- if it indicates an option Patch is in the attachment -- Bjarni I. Gislason
--- mkswap.8 2014-01-14 11:46:09.000000000 +0000 +++ mkswap.8.new 2014-04-03 01:37:13.000000000 +0000 @@ -32,14 +32,14 @@ parameter is superfluous but retained fo (It specifies the desired size of the swap area in 1024-byte blocks. .B mkswap will use the entire partition or file if it is omitted. -Specifying it is unwise -- a typo may destroy your disk.) +Specifying it is unwise \(en a typo may destroy your disk.) After creating the swap area, you need the .B swapon command to start using it. Usually swap areas are listed in .I /etc/fstab so that they can be taken into use at boot time by a -.B swapon -a +.B swapon \-a command in some boot script. .SH WARNING @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ like many others mkfs-like utils, However, .B mkswap refuses to erase the first block on a device with a disk -label (SUN, BSD, ...). +label (SUN, BSD, \&...\&). .SH OPTIONS .TP @@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ The maximum useful size of a swap area d the kernel version. The maximum number of the pages that is possible to address by swap area header -is 4294967295 (UINT_MAX). The remaining space on the swap device is ignored. +is 4294967295 (UINT_MAX). The remaining space on the swap device is ignored. Presently, Linux allows 32 swap areas. The areas in use can be seen in the file @@ -115,17 +115,17 @@ The areas in use can be seen in the file refuses areas smaller than 10 pages. If you don't know the page size that your machine uses, you may be -able to look it up with "cat /proc/cpuinfo" (or you may not -- +able to look it up with "cat /proc/cpuinfo" (or you may not \(en the contents of this file depend on architecture and kernel version). To set up a swap file, it is necessary to create that file before initializing it with .BR mkswap , -e.g. using a command like +e.g.\& using a command like .nf .RS -# fallocate --length 8GiB swapfile +# fallocate \-\-length 8GiB swapfile .RE .fi
