The main fix is: giving -J, --json its own paragraph. Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- disk-utils/sfdisk.8 | 33 +++++++++++++++++---------------- 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/disk-utils/sfdisk.8 b/disk-utils/sfdisk.8 index 91cba72..c2ec89b 100644 --- a/disk-utils/sfdisk.8 +++ b/disk-utils/sfdisk.8 @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ .\" entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a .\" permission notice identical to this one. .\" -.TH SFDISK 8 "December 2014" "util-linux" "System Administration" +.TH SFDISK 8 "June 2015" "util-linux" "System Administration" .SH NAME sfdisk \- display or manipulate a disk partition table .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ never been important for Linux, and this addressing concept does not make any sense for new devices. .sp .B sfdisk -(since version 2.26) aligns start and end of the partitions to +(since version 2.26) aligns the start and end of partitions to block-device I/O limits when relative sizes are specified, or when the default values are used. .sp @@ -57,28 +57,29 @@ input format. If standard input is a terminal, then \fBsfdisk\fR starts an interactive session. .sp If the option \fB\-N\fR is specified, then the changes are applied to -the partition addressed by \fIpartition-number\fR. The unspecified fields +the partition addressed by \fIpartition-number\fR. The unspecified fields of the partition are not modified. .sp -Note that it's possible to address unused partition by \fB\-N\fR. For example -MBR always contains 4 partitions, but the number of the used partitions may be -smaller. In this case sfdisk follows the default values from the partition -table and it does not use built-in defaults for the unused partition specified -by \fB\-N\fR. See also \fB\---append\fR. +Note that it's possible to address an unused partition with \fB\-N\fR. +For example, an MBR always contains 4 partitions, but the number of used +partitions may be smaller. In this case \fBsfdisk\fR follows the default +values from the partition table and does not use built-in defaults for the +unused partition given with \fB\-N\fR. See also \fB\---append\fR. .TP .BR \-A , " \-\-activate \fIdevice\fR [" \fIpartition-number\fR...] Switch on the bootable flag. If no \fIpartition-number\fR is specified, then all partitions with an enabled flag are listed. .TP .BR \-d , " \-\-dump " \fIdevice\fR -Dump the partitions of a device in a format that is usable as input to sfdisk. +Dump the partitions of a device in a format that is usable as input to \fBsfdisk\fR. See the section \fBBACKING UP THE PARTITION TABLE\fR. .TP .BR \-g , " \-\-show\-geometry " [ \fIdevice ...] List the geometry of all or the specified devices. +.TP .BR \-J , " \-\-json " \fIdevice\fR -Dump the partitions of a device in JSON format. Note that sfdisk is not able to -use JSON as input format. +Dump the partitions of a device in JSON format. Note that \fBsfdisk\fR is +not able to use JSON as input format. .TP .BR \-l , " \-\-list " [ \fIdevice ...] List the partitions of all or the specified devices. This command can be used @@ -124,20 +125,20 @@ Don't create a new partition table, but only append the specified partitions. .BR \-b , " \-\-backup" Back up the current partition table sectors before starting the partitioning. The default backup file name is ~/sfdisk-<device>-<offset>.bak; to use another -name see \fB\-\-backup\-file\fR. +name see option \fB\-O\fR, \fB\-\-backup\-file\fR. .TP -.BR "\-\-color"[\fI=when\fR] +.BR \-\-color [ \fI=when ] 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 -see \fB\-\-help\fR output. See also the COLORS section. +it defaults to \fBauto\fR. The colors can be disabled; for the current built-in default +see the \fB\-\-help\fR output. See also the \fBCOLORS\fR section. .TP .BR \-f , " \-\-force" Disable all consistency checking. .TP .BR \-\-Linux Deprecated and ignored option. Partitioning that is compatible with -Linux (and other modern OS) is the default. +Linux (and other modern operating systems) is the default. .TP .BR \-n , " \-\-no\-act" Do everything except writing to the device. -- 1.7.0.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
