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From: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] ext2: add help text for BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2_BLOCKS
Date: Mon, 1 May 2017 15:13:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170501131341.GD3118@scaer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1493640463-59836-1-git-send-email-g4@novadsp.com>

J, All,

On 2017-05-01 13:07 +0100, J Evans spake thusly:
> Signed-off-by: J Evans <g4@novadsp.com>
> ---
>  fs/ext2/Config.in | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ext2/Config.in b/fs/ext2/Config.in
> index 19ed140..e7cded5 100644
> --- a/fs/ext2/Config.in
> +++ b/fs/ext2/Config.in
> @@ -48,6 +48,9 @@ config BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2_LABEL
>  config BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2_BLOCKS
>  	int "exact size in blocks"
>  	default 61440
> +    help
> +      Determines the final size of your file system. The default
> +      value of 61440 creates a 60MB filesystem. 

The 'help' keywird should be idnented by 1 TAB; the help text it self
should be indented by 1 tab and 2 spaces.

Furthermore, a "block" is not an absolute and perfectly-defined unit of
size. Under some conditions, a block may be 512 bytes, while under other
conditions it might be 4096 bytes; whatever, depending on the context,
and users are not really used to calculate in terms of blocks.

In this case, a block is 1024 bytes.

Also, we do not usually reference the default value, unless it is very
important.

Also, 'MB' refers to power-of-ten, while here we are mostly speaking 'MiB',
which is about powers-of-two:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix

What about:

    Specify the requested size for the filesystem, as a number of
    1024-byte blocks. The default, 61440, is worth a 60MiB filesystem
    (a little over 61MB).

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

>  
>  config BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2_INODES
>  	int "exact number of inodes (leave at 0 for auto calculation)"
> -- 
> 2.7.4
> 
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-01 12:07 [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] ext2: add help text for BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2_BLOCKS J Evans
2017-05-01 13:13 ` Yann E. MORIN [this message]
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2017-05-01 13:38 J Evans

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