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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: Chris Frost <chris@frostnet.net>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH V2] mke2fs.8.in: clarify the sign of a block-size constraint.
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:59:42 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C51B37E.4020404@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100724220124.GO4032@pooh.frostnet.net>

This bit of the mke2fs manpage is slightly confusing:

-b block-size
    Specify the size of blocks in bytes. <snip>
    If block-size is negative, then mke2fs will use heuristics 
    to determine the appropriate block size, with the constraint 
    that the block size will be at least block-size bytes.

because it sounds like the block size will be at least a negative
number.  Clarify just what the negative sign means.

Reported-by: Chris Frost <chris@frostnet.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
---

diff --git a/misc/mke2fs.8.in b/misc/mke2fs.8.in
index 45a99f8..b46e7e2 100644
--- a/misc/mke2fs.8.in
+++ b/misc/mke2fs.8.in
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ the expected usage of the filesystem (see the
 .B \-T
 option).  If
 .I block-size
-is negative, then
+is preceded by a negative sign ('-'), then
 .B mke2fs
 will use heuristics to determine the
 appropriate block size, with the constraint that the block size will be



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-07-29 16:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-24 22:01 [PATCH] mke2fs.8.in: correct the sign of a block-size constraint Chris Frost
2010-07-25  4:55 ` Eric Sandeen
2010-07-29  4:11   ` Chris Frost
2010-07-29 16:59 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2010-07-31  0:40   ` [PATCH V2] mke2fs.8.in: clarify " Ted Ts'o

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