From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: from cpsmtpb-ews10.kpnxchange.com ([213.75.39.15]:59280 "EHLO cpsmtpb-ews10.kpnxchange.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751429AbaHKUYK (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Aug 2014 16:24:10 -0400 From: Benno Schulenberg To: util-linux@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] docs: improve the description of --size in the man page of zramctl Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 22:23:39 +0200 Message-Id: <1407788619-4298-1-git-send-email-bensberg@justemail.net> Sender: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg --- sys-utils/zramctl.8 | 13 ++++--------- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/sys-utils/zramctl.8 b/sys-utils/zramctl.8 index a308233..6f82ccf 100644 --- a/sys-utils/zramctl.8 +++ b/sys-utils/zramctl.8 @@ -67,15 +67,10 @@ Reset the options of the specified zram device(s). Zram device settings 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. 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. +Create a zram device of the specified \fIsize\fR. +Zram devices are aligned to memory pages; when the requested \fIsize\fR is +not a multiple of the page size, it will be rounded up to the next multiple. +When not otherwise specified, the unit of the \fIsize\fR parameter is bytes. .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" -- 1.7.0.4