The page currently uses rather aggressive indenting, which doesn't really improve readability, but does have cause ugly line filling. Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> --- disk-utils/sfdisk.8 | 25 +++++-------------------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) diff --git a/disk-utils/sfdisk.8 b/disk-utils/sfdisk.8 index 6c54a1699..6415b0f1b 100644 --- a/disk-utils/sfdisk.8 +++ b/disk-utils/sfdisk.8 @@ -344,17 +344,14 @@ Display help text and exit. .B sfdisk supports two input formats and generic header lines. -.B Header lines -.RS +.SS Header lines The optional header lines specify generic information that apply to the partition table. The header-line format is: -.RS .sp .B "<name>: <value>" .sp .RE The currently recognized headers are: -.RS .TP .B unit Specify the partitioning unit. The only supported unit is \fBsectors\fR. @@ -384,14 +381,11 @@ modify this variable if you're not sure. Specify sector size. This header is informative only and it is not used when sfdisk creates a new partition table, in this case the real device specific value is always used and sector size from the dump is ignored. -.RE -.sp +.PP Note that it is only possible to use header lines before the first partition is specified in the input. -.RE - -.B Unnamed-fields format -.RS +.SS Unnamed-fields format +\& .RS .sp .I start size type bootable @@ -441,7 +435,6 @@ Since v2.36 libfdisk supports partition type aliases as extension to shortcuts. simple human readable word (e.g. "linux"). Supported shortcuts and aliases: -.RS .TP .B L - alias 'linux' Linux; means 83 for MBR and 0FC63DAF-8483-4772-8E79-3D69D8477DE4 for GPT. @@ -464,7 +457,6 @@ Linux RAID; means FD for MBR and A19D880F-05FC-4D3B-A006-743F0F84911E for GPT .TP .B V - alias 'lvm' LVM; means 8E for MBR and E6D6D379-F507-44C2-A23C-238F2A3DF928 for GPT -.RE .PP The default .I type @@ -478,10 +470,7 @@ is specified as [\fB*\fR|\fB-\fR], with as default not-bootable. The value of this field is irrelevant for Linux - when Linux runs it has been booted already - but it might play a role for certain boot loaders and for other operating systems. -.RE - -.B Named-fields format -.RS +.SS Named-fields format This format is more readable, robust, extensible and allows specifying additional information (e.g., a UUID). It is recommended to use this format to keep your scripts more readable. @@ -501,7 +490,6 @@ The .I value can be between quotation marks (e.g., name="This is partition name"). The currently supported fields are: -.RS .TP .BI start= number The first non-assigned sector aligned according to device I/O limits. The default @@ -531,9 +519,6 @@ GPT partition name. A hexadecimal number (without 0x) for an MBR partition, a GUID for a GPT partition, or a shortcut as for unnamed-fields format. For backward compatibility the \fBId=\fR field has the same meaning. -.RE -.RE - .SH EMPTY DISK LABEL .B sfdisk does not create partition table without partitions by default. The lines with -- 2.26.2
