texplain disk parittions - plan9port - [fork] Plan 9 from user space
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       Date:   Sun, 24 Jul 2005 13:37:47 +0000
       
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   DIR diff --git a/man/man8/venti.8 b/man/man8/venti.8
       t@@ -330,6 +330,7 @@ is an arena partition, formatted using
        .I File
        is an index section, formatted using
        .IR fmtisect .
       +.PD
        .PP
        After formatting a venti system using
        .IR fmtindex ,
       t@@ -381,6 +382,28 @@ or
        .LR g
        (case-insensitive)
        to indicate kilobytes, megabytes, or gigabytes respectively.
       +.PP
       +The
       +.I file
       +name in the configuration lines above can be of the form
       +.IB file : lo - hi
       +to specify a range of the file. 
       +.I Lo
       +and
       +.I hi
       +are specified in bytes but can have the usual
       +.BI k ,
       +.BI m ,
       +or
       +.B g
       +suffixes.
       +Either
       +.I lo
       +or
       +.I hi
       +may be omitted.
       +This notation eliminates the need to
       +partition raw disks on non-Plan 9 systems.
        .SS Command Line
        Many of the options to Venti duplicate parameters that
        can be specified in the configuration file.