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From: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
To: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kerolasa@iki.fi
Subject: [PATCH 2/7] docs: add details to zramctl --size option documentation
Date: Sun,  3 Aug 2014 15:17:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1407075463-19586-2-git-send-email-kerolasa@iki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1407075463-19586-1-git-send-email-kerolasa@iki.fi>

Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
---
 sys-utils/zramctl.8 | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sys-utils/zramctl.8 b/sys-utils/zramctl.8
index 74240a1..a308233 100644
--- a/sys-utils/zramctl.8
+++ b/sys-utils/zramctl.8
@@ -68,8 +68,15 @@ can be changed only after a reset.
 .TP
 .BR \-s , " \-\-size " \fIsize
 Force the zram driver to reread the size of the file associated with
-the specified zram device
-
+the specified zram device.  When not specified the
+.I size
+unit is bytes.  The zram devices size is page size aligned.  When
+requested
+.I size
+does match with page size the device be large enough to hold the reqested
+.I size
+plus length to next page boundary.
+.IP
 The \fIsize\fR argument may be followed by the multiplicative suffixes KiB (=1024),
 MiB (=1024*1024), and so on for GiB, TiB, PiB, EiB, ZiB and YiB (the "iB"
 is optional, e.g., "K" has the same meaning as "KiB") or the suffixes
-- 
2.0.3


  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-03 14:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-03 14:17 [PATCH 1/7] zramctl: print all devices as a default action Sami Kerola
2014-08-03 14:17 ` Sami Kerola [this message]
2014-08-03 14:17 ` [PATCH 3/7] zramctl: mark --reset mutually exclusive with --algorithm and --streams Sami Kerola
2014-08-03 14:17 ` [PATCH 4/7] zramctl: fail status printout when device does not exist Sami Kerola
2014-08-03 14:17 ` [PATCH 5/7] zramctl: improve error message Sami Kerola
2014-08-03 14:17 ` [PATCH 6/7] zramctl: fix mount point printout Sami Kerola
2014-08-04 12:15   ` Karel Zak
2014-08-05 23:03     ` Sami Kerola
2014-08-03 14:17 ` [PATCH 7/7] zramctl: add bash completion script Sami Kerola
2014-08-03 14:50 ` [PATCH 1/7] zramctl: print all devices as a default action Mike Frysinger
2014-08-03 20:50   ` Sami Kerola
2014-08-04  7:31     ` Mike Frysinger
2014-08-06  8:16       ` Karel Zak
2014-08-03 22:19 ` Bernhard Voelker
2014-08-04 12:02 ` Karel Zak
2014-08-05 22:38   ` Sami Kerola
2014-08-11 12:49 ` Karel Zak

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