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Bump date for last. Use Sq for single quotes. Drop trailing space. 

New sentence, new line.  Sort xrefs.  Fix a spelling error.
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.\" $NetBSD: fdisk.8,v 1.44 2004/03/19 18:19:17 dyoung Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: fdisk.8,v 1.45 2004/03/19 22:21:36 snj Exp $
.\"
.Dd October 6, 2003
.Dd March 19, 2004
.Dt FDISK 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -56,12 +56,16 @@ disklabel saved in sector 1 of the
.Nx
partition.
.Pp
The standard MBR boot code will only boot the 'active' partition.
The standard MBR boot code will only boot the
.Sq active
partition.
However
.Nx
contains two alternate boot programs which allow the user to
interactively select which of the partitions to boot.
The 'mbr_ext' code will boot
The
.Sq mbr_ext
code will boot
.Nx
from an extended partition but will not work on old systems that do not
support LBA reads.
@ -188,10 +192,11 @@ and
are specified then the details of the specified partition will be changed.
Any other partitions which overlap the requested part of the disk will be
silently deleted.
.It Fl F
.It Fl F
Indicate that
.Ar device
is a regular file. Unless the geometry of
is a regular file.
Unless the geometry of
.Ar device
is told to
.Nm fdisk
@ -241,14 +246,14 @@ When used with no other flags print a series of
commands for setting variables to the partition information.
This could be used by installation scripts.
.It Fl t Ar disktab
Read
Read
.Ar disktype
from the named
.Xr disktab 5
from the named
.Xr disktab 5
file instead of from
.Pa /etc/disktab.
.Pa /etc/disktab .
.It Fl T Ar disktype
Use the disklabel
Use the disklabel
.Ar disktype
instead of the disklabel on
.Ar device .
@ -393,7 +398,7 @@ If
.Fl v
is not specified the start of extended partitions and the first partition
on the disk are rounded down to include the mandatory red tape in the
preceeding track.
preceding track.
.It Active
is output if this is the active partition.
.El
@ -475,12 +480,14 @@ Default location of i386 bootselect code
Default location of i386 bootselect for extended partitions
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr disklabel 8 ,
.Xr disktab 5 ,
.Xr disklabel 8 ,
.Xr mbr 8 ,
.Xr mbrlabel 8
.Sh BUGS
The word 'partition' is used to mean both an MBR partition and a
The word
.Sq partition
is used to mean both an MBR partition and a
.Nx
partition, sometimes in the same sentence.
.Pp