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authorTom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>2006-10-19 03:31:13 +0000
committerTom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>2006-10-19 03:31:13 +0000
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A few wording fix ups to the GEOM chapter.
PR: 85353 Submitted by: "Julien Gabel" <jpeg@thilelli.net> (original submission)
Notes
Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=28882
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diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom/chapter.sgml
index ca84a765f3..c388e9c163 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom/chapter.sgml
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@
<step><para>Load the <filename>geom_stripe</filename>
module:</para>
- <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>kldload geom_stripe.ko</userinput></screen>
+ <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>kldload geom_stripe</userinput></screen>
</step>
<step><para>Ensure that a suitable mount point exists. If this
@@ -161,10 +161,9 @@
<step><para>Determine the device names for the disks which will
be striped, and create the new stripe device. For example,
- the following command could be used to stripe two unused,
- unpartitioned <acronym>ATA</acronym> disks:
- <filename>/dev/ad2</filename> and
- <filename>/dev/ad3</filename>.</para>
+ to stripe two unused and unpartitioned <acronym>ATA</acronym> disks,
+ for example <filename>/dev/ad2</filename> and
+ <filename>/dev/ad3</filename>:</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>gstripe label -v st0 /dev/ad2 /dev/ad3</userinput></screen>
@@ -175,8 +174,9 @@ XXX: What message? Put it inside the screen output above.
-->
</step>
- <step><para>A partition table must be created on the new volume
- with the following command:</para>
+ <step><para>Write a standard label, also known as a partition
+ table, on the new volume and install the default
+ bootstrap code:</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>bsdlabel -wB /dev/stripe/st0</userinput></screen>
@@ -186,9 +186,9 @@ XXX: What message? Put it inside the screen output above.
in the <filename role="directory">/dev/stripe</filename>
directory in addition to the <devicename>st0</devicename> device.
Those include <devicename>st0a</devicename> and
- <devicename>st0c</devicename>. A file system must now be created
- on the <devicename>st0a</devicename> device using the following
- <command>newfs</command> command:</para>
+ <devicename>st0c</devicename>. At this point a file system may be created
+ on the <devicename>st0a</devicename> device with the
+ <command>newfs</command> utility:</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>newfs -U /dev/stripe/st0a</userinput></screen>
@@ -198,8 +198,7 @@ XXX: What message? Put it inside the screen output above.
</step>
</procedure>
- <para>The following command can be used to manually mount a newly
- created disk stripe:</para>
+ <para>To manually mount the created disk stripe:</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>mount /dev/stripe/st0a /mnt</userinput></screen>
@@ -279,7 +278,7 @@ Done.</screen>
</note>
<para>Install a generic <command>fdisk</command> label and boot code
- to newly created <devicename>gm0</devicename> device:</para>
+ to new <devicename>gm0</devicename> device:</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>fdisk -vBI /dev/mirror/gm0</userinput></screen>
@@ -294,8 +293,8 @@ Done.</screen>
the slice and partition size of the other disk.</para>
</note>
- <para>Use the &man.newfs.8; utility to create a default file
- system on the <devicename>gm0s1a</devicename> device node:</para>
+ <para>Use the &man.newfs.8; utility to construct a default <acronym>UFS</acronym>
+ file system on the <devicename>gm0s1a</devicename> device node:</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>newfs -U /dev/mirror/gm0s1a</userinput></screen>
@@ -326,7 +325,7 @@ Done.</screen>
refer to <xref linkend="adding-swap-space"> for more
information.</para>
</footnote>. Change the other file system information to use the
- new disk. See the following example:</para>
+ new disk as shown in the following example:</para>
<programlisting># Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass#
#/dev/da0s2b none swap sw 0 0
@@ -347,15 +346,11 @@ Done.</screen>
new root partition, a failsafe is available.</para>
</note>
- <para>Now add the following line to the new
- <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename>:</para>
+ <para>Ensure the <filename>geom_mirror.ko</filename> module will load
+ on boot by running the following command:</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>echo 'geom_mirror_load="YES"' &gt;&gt; /mnt/boot/loader.conf</userinput></screen>
- <para>This will instruct &man.loader.8; utility to load the
- <filename>geom_mirror.ko</filename> module during system
- initialization.</para>
-
<para>Reboot the system:</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>shutdown -r now</userinput></screen>
@@ -393,7 +388,7 @@ mountroot></programlisting>
system to a &man.loader.8; prompt. Load the kernel module
manually:</para>
- <screen>OK? <userinput>load geom_mirror.ko</userinput>
+ <screen>OK? <userinput>load geom_mirror</userinput>
OK? <userinput>boot</userinput></screen>
<para>If this works then for whatever reason the module was not