From: Luca Di Maio <luca.dimaio1@gmail.com>
To: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Luca Di Maio <luca.dimaio1@gmail.com>,
dimitri.ledkov@chainguard.dev, smoser@chainguard.dev,
djwong@kernel.org, hch@infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v6 4/4] man: document -P flag to populate a filesystem from a directory
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2025 18:03:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250423160319.810025-5-luca.dimaio1@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250423160319.810025-1-luca.dimaio1@gmail.com>
Document the -P flag into man page.
Signed-off-by: Luca Di Maio <luca.dimaio1@gmail.com>
---
man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8.in | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8.in b/man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8.in
index 37e3a88..507a2f9 100644
--- a/man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8.in
+++ b/man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8.in
@@ -1291,6 +1291,13 @@ creating the file system.
.B \-K
Do not attempt to discard blocks at mkfs time.
.TP
+.BI \-P " directory"
+Populate the filesystem starting from a
+.IR directory .
+This will copy the contents of the given directory into the root directory of
+the filesystem. Ownership, Extended attributes, Permissions and timestamps will
+be preserved from the source.
+.TP
.B \-V
Prints the version number and exits.
.SH Configuration File Format
--
2.49.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-04-23 16:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-04-23 16:03 [PATCH v6 0/4] mkfs: add ability to populate filesystem from directory Luca Di Maio
2025-04-23 16:03 ` [PATCH v6 1/4] proto: expose more functions from proto Luca Di Maio
2025-04-23 16:03 ` [PATCH v6 2/4] populate: add ability to populate a filesystem from a directory Luca Di Maio
2025-04-23 20:23 ` Darrick J. Wong
2025-04-24 16:09 ` Luca Di Maio
2025-04-24 22:00 ` Darrick J. Wong
2025-04-25 13:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-04-25 15:00 ` Darrick J. Wong
2025-04-25 17:58 ` Luca Di Maio
2025-04-23 16:03 ` [PATCH v6 3/4] mkfs: add -P flag " Luca Di Maio
2025-04-23 20:09 ` Darrick J. Wong
2025-04-24 12:01 ` Luca Di Maio
2025-04-24 21:55 ` Darrick J. Wong
2025-04-23 16:03 ` Luca Di Maio [this message]
2025-04-23 20:03 ` [PATCH v6 0/4] mkfs: add ability to populate filesystem from directory Darrick J. Wong
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