diff --git a/sbin/vinum/vinum.8 b/sbin/vinum/vinum.8
index 589c079e692b..67485851f73d 100644
--- a/sbin/vinum/vinum.8
+++ b/sbin/vinum/vinum.8
@@ -1,4 +1,40 @@
 .\"  Hey, Emacs, edit this file in -*- nroff-fill -*- mode
+.\"-
+.\" Copyright (c) 1997, 1998
+.\"	Nan Yang Computer Services Limited.  All rights reserved.
+.\"
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+.\" $Id: vinum.4,v 1.9 1999/03/23 04:57:24 grog Exp grog $
 .\"
 .Dd 28 March 1999
 .Dt vinum 8
@@ -1904,6 +1940,46 @@ vinumioctl: invalid ioctl from process 247 (vinum): c0e44642
 .Ed
 .Pp
 This error may also occur if you use old versions of kld or userland program.
+.It
+.Nm
+drives are UNIX disk partitions and should have the partition type
+.Ar vinum .
+This is different from
+.Nm ccd ,
+which expects partitions of type
+.Ar 4.2BSD .
+This behaviour of ccd is an invitation to shoot yourself in the foot: with
+.Nm ccd 
+you can easily overwrite a file system.  
+.Nm
+will not permit this.
+.Pp
+For similar reasons, the
+.Nm vinum Ar start
+command will not accept a drive on partition
+.Ar c .
+Partition
+.Ar c
+is used by the system to represent the whole disk, and must be of type
+.Ar unused .
+Clearly there is a conflict here, which
+.Nm
+resolves by not using the
+.Ar c
+partition.
+.It
+The
+.Nm vinum Ar read
+command has a particularly emetic syntax.  Once it was the only way to start
+.Nm vinum ,
+but now the preferred method is with
+.Nm vinum Ar start .
+.Nm vinum Ar read
+should be used for maintenance purposes only.  Note that its syntax has changed,
+and the arguments must be disk slices, such as
+.Pa /dev/da0 ,
+not partitions such as
+.Pa /dev/da0e .
 .El
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