From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lukas Czerner Subject: [PATCH 2/2 v3] mke2fs: use binary units in the man page Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 17:36:48 +0200 Message-ID: <1305905808-31093-2-git-send-email-lczerner@redhat.com> References: <1305905808-31093-1-git-send-email-lczerner@redhat.com> Cc: tytso@MIT.EDU, sandeen@redhat.com, Lukas Czerner To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:42009 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932752Ab1ETPg5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 May 2011 11:36:57 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1305905808-31093-1-git-send-email-lczerner@redhat.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Decimal units (kilobyte 10^3, megabyte 10^6 etc...) were used in mke2fs manual page, however they was really meant to be binary units (kibibyte 2^10, mebibyte 2^20 etc...), so change the man pages to reflect that fact, even if it sounds weird. Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen --- [v2]: do not spell units - mebibytes etc... - but rather use just abbrev [v3]: add Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen misc/mke2fs.8.in | 14 +++++++------- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/misc/mke2fs.8.in b/misc/mke2fs.8.in index e685dfb..53b7a5c 100644 --- a/misc/mke2fs.8.in +++ b/misc/mke2fs.8.in @@ -359,9 +359,9 @@ The following journal options are supported: .BI size= journal-size Create an internal journal (i.e., stored inside the filesystem) of size .I journal-size -megabytes. +MiB. The size of the journal must be at least 1024 filesystem blocks -(i.e., 1MB if using 1k blocks, 4MB if using 4k blocks, etc.) +(i.e., 1MiB if using 1024 byte blocks, 4MiB if using 4096 byte blocks, etc.) and may be no more than 102,400 filesystem blocks. @JDEV@.TP @JDEV@.BI device= external-journal @@ -638,21 +638,21 @@ using a comma separated list. If this option is is not specified, .B mke2fs will pick a single default usage type based on the size of the filesystem to -be created. If the filesystem size is less than or equal to 3 megabytes, +be created. If the filesystem size is less than or equal to 3 MiB, .B mke2fs will use the filesystem type .IR floppy . If the filesystem size is greater than 3 but less than or equal to -512 megabytes, +512 MiB, .BR mke2fs (8) will use the filesystem type .IR small . -If the filesystem size is greater than or equal to 4 terabytes but less than -16 terabytes, +If the filesystem size is greater than or equal to 4 TiB but less than +16 TiB, .BR mke2fs (8) will use the filesystem type .IR big . -If the filesystem size is greater than or equal to 16 terabytes, +If the filesystem size is greater than or equal to 16 TiB, .BR mke2fs (8) will use the filesystem type .IR huge . -- 1.7.4.4