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blkid: more info about ambivalent results to the man page 

Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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@ -85,6 +85,16 @@ are shown, if they are recognized.
has two main forms of operation: either searching for a device with a
specific NAME=value pair, or displaying NAME=value pairs for one or
more specified devices.
For security reasons
.B blkid
silently ignores all devices where the probing result is ambivalent (more
collide filesystems is detected). The low-level probing mode (\fB-p\fR)
provides more information and extra return code in this case.
It's recommended to use
.BR wipefs (8)
to get a detailed overview and to erase obsolete stuff (magic strings) from the device.
.SH OPTIONS
The \fIsize\fR and \fIoffset\fR arguments may be followed by the multiplicative
suffixes like KiB (=1024), MiB (=1024*1024), and so on for GiB, TiB, PiB, EiB, ZiB and YiB