Hi,

Attached bunch of patches improve or correct several error messages
or usage synopses.

About the fourth patch I'm unsure.  The current description of the option
'--no-reread' is "skip partition re-read at boot".  With "boot" is meant
"program startup", so that needs to be corrected.  But the real effect of
--no-reread seems to be to just check that the relevant partition is not
in use.  Is that correct?

By the way, I don't understand why the options -g (--show-geometry) and
-G (show-pt-geometry) are listed under "Dangerous options".  How can
they be dangerous when they just show things?

Also I do not understand the descriptions of the new options --nested,
--chained, and --onesector.  How is "disjoint" different from "mutually
disjoint"?  Would the following attempts at description be correct?

--nested     each logical and extended partition falls within an extended one
--chained     each logical partition falls within an extended one
--onesector   not any partition falls within another

The two new options --inside-outer and --not-inside-outer have been
misdocumented as --inside-order and --not-inside-order.  The last and
seventeenth patch fixes that.


The fourteenth patch adds the missing "[options]" to the usage synopsis
of scriptreplay, and also indicates the timingfile argument as optional.
However, I find this a bit misleading: the timingfile is only optional when
it is specified via the -t option.  Wouldn't it be better to describe the
command with two alternative synopses, as follows?

  Usage: scriptreplay timingfile [typescript [divisor]]
     or: scriptreplay [options] [timingfile] [typescript] [divisor]

Regards,

Benno

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