docs: add the Sort command to the man page of cfdisk

Also sort T into its proper position, improve the wording of U,
and add the Left and Right arrow keys.

Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/disk-utils/cfdisk.8 b/disk-utils/cfdisk.8
index dc30b700b2..e4577d5334 100644
--- a/disk-utils/cfdisk.8
+++ b/disk-utils/cfdisk.8
@@ -66,9 +66,8 @@ Display version information and exit.
 .BR \-z , " \-\-zero"
 Start with an in-memory zeroed partition table.  This option does not zero the
 partition table on the disk; rather, it simply starts the program without
-reading the existing partition table.  This option allows to a create new
-partition table from scratch or create a new partition table according to
-a sfdisk compatible script.
+reading the existing partition table.  This option allows you to create a new
+partition table from scratch or from an sfdisk-compatible script.
 
 .SH COMMANDS
 The commands for
@@ -107,22 +106,27 @@ MiB (=1024*1024), and so on for GiB, TiB, PiB, EiB, ZiB and YiB
 Quit the program.  This will exit the program without writing any data to
 the disk.
 .TP
-.B u
-Dump the current in-memory partition table to the sfdisk compatible file.
-.sp
-The script files are compatible between cfdisk, sfdisk, fdisk and another
-libfdisk applications. For more details see
-.BR sfdisk (8).
-.sp
-It is also possible to load sfdisk script to cfdisk if there is no partition
-table on the device or when you start cfdisk with \fI--zero\fR command line
-option.
+.B s
+Sort the partitions in ascending start-sector order.  When deleting and
+adding partitions, it is likely that the numbering of the partitions will
+no longer match their order on the disk.  This command restores that match.
 .TP
 .B t
 Change the partition type.  By default, new partitions are created as
 .I Linux
 partitions.
 .TP
+.B u
+Dump the current in-memory partition table to an sfdisk-compatible script file.
+.sp
+The script files are compatible between \fBcfdisk\fR, \fBfdisk\fR, \fBsfdisk\fR
+and other libfdisk applications.  For more details see
+.BR sfdisk (8).
+.sp
+It is also possible to load an sfdisk-script into \fBcfdisk\fR if there is
+no partition table on the device or when you start \fBcfdisk\fR with the
+\fB--zero\fR command-line option.
+.TP
 .B W
 Write the partition table to disk (you must enter an uppercase W).  Since
 this might destroy data on the disk, you must either confirm or deny
@@ -143,13 +147,17 @@ Move the cursor to the previous or next partition.  If there are more
 partitions than can be displayed on a screen, you can display the next
 (previous) set of partitions by moving down (up) at the last (first)
 partition displayed on the screen.
+.TP
+.IR "Left Arrow" , " Right Arrow"
+Select the preceding or the next menu item.  Hitting \fIEnter\fR will
+execute the currently selected item.
 
 .PP
 All commands can be entered with either uppercase or lowercase
 letters (except for
 .BR W rite).
-When in a submenu or at a prompt for entering a size, you can hit the
-.I ESC
+When in a submenu or at a prompt, you can hit the
+.I Esc
 key to return to the main menu.
 
 .SH COLORS