.IR Unusable .
The size field displays the size of the partition in megabytes (by
default). It can also display the size in sectors and cylinders (see
-the change units command below). If an asterisks
+the change units command below). If an asterisk
.RB ( * )
appears after the size, this means that the partition is not aligned
on cylinder boundaries.
desired value and press
.IR Enter .
The altered disk parameter values do not take effect until you return
-the main menu (by pressing
+to the main menu (by pressing
.IR Enter " or " ESC
-at the change disk geometry command line. If you change the geometry
+at the change disk geometry command line). If you change the geometry
such that the disk appears larger, the extra sectors are added at the
end of the disk as free space. If the disk appears smaller, the
partitions that are beyond the new last sector are deleted and the
.TP
.B m
Maximize disk usage of the current partition. This command will
-recover the the unused space between the partition table and the
+recover the unused space between the partition table and the
beginning of the partition, but at the cost of making the partition
incompatible with DOS, OS/2 and possibly other operating systems.
This option will toggle between maximal disk usage and DOS, OS/2,
.B cfdisk
next prompts you for the size of the partition you want to create.
The default size, equal to the entire free space of the current
-partition, is display in megabytes. You can either press the
+partition, is displayed in megabytes. You can either press the
.I Enter
key to accept the default size or enter a different size at the
prompt.
will ask you to choose where to place the partition. After the
partition is created,
.B cfdisk
-automatically adjusts the other partition's partition types if all of
+automatically adjusts the other partitions' partition types if all of
the primary partitions are used.
.TP
.B p
the extended partition is printed before the first logical partition.
If a partition does not start or end on a cylinder boundary or if the
-partition length is not divisible by the cylinder size, an asterisks
+partition length is not divisible by the cylinder size, an asterisk
.RB ( * )
is printed after the non-aligned sector number/count. This usually
indicates that a partition was created by an operating system that
.B cfdisk
will write the partition table to disk and the tell the kernel to
re-read the partition table from the disk. The re-reading of the
-partition table works is most cases, but I have seen it fail. Don't
+partition table works in most cases, but I have seen it fail. Don't
panic. It will be correct after you reboot the system. In all cases,
-I still recommend rebooting the system--just to be safe.
+I still recommend rebooting the system -- just to be safe.
.TP
.I Up Arrow
.TP
Allow long options to start with a single
.RB ` \- '.
.IP "\-h, \-\-help"
-Output a small usage guide and exit succesfully. No other output is generated.
+Output a small usage guide and exit successfully. No other output is generated.
.IP "\-l, \-\-longoptions longopts"
The long (multi\-character) options to be recognized.
More than one option name
Each long option name
in
.I longopts
-may be followed by one colon to indicate it has a required argument,and by two colons to indicate it has an optional argument.
+may be followed by one colon to indicate it has a required argument, and by two colons to indicate it has an optional argument.
.IP "\-n, \-\-name progname"
The name that will be used by the
.BR getopt (3)
.RB ` \-\- '
and error status 0.
.IP "\-V, \-\-version"
-Output version information and exit succesfully. No other output is generated.
+Output version information and exit successfully. No other output is generated.
.SH PARSING
This section specifies the format of the second part of the parameters of
.B getopt
but no second parameter will be generated in unquoted (compatible) mode.
Note that many other
.BR getopt (1)
-implemetations do not support optional arguments.
+implementations do not support optional arguments.
If several short options were specified after a single
.RB ` \- ',
If the first character is a
.RB ` \- ',
-non\-option parameters are outputed at the place where they are found; in normal
+non\-option parameters are outputted at the place where they are found; in normal
operation, they are all collected at the end of output after a
.RB ` \-\- '
parameter has been generated. Note that this
.RB ` \- ',
getopt goes into compatibility mode. It will interpret its first parameter as
the string of short options, and all other arguments will be parsed. It
-will still do parameter shuffling (ie. all non\-option parameters are outputed
+will still do parameter shuffling (ie. all non\-option parameters are outputted
at the end), unless the environment variable
.B POSIXLY_CORRECT
is set.
.B getopt
returns error code
.B 0
-for succesful parsing,
+for successful parsing,
.B 1
if
.BR getopt (3)
treats optional arguments that are empty as if they were not present.
The syntax if you do not want any short option variables at all is
-not very intuitive (you have to set them explicitely to the empty
+not very intuitive (you have to set them explicitly to the empty
string).
.SH AUTHOR
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