docs: mark old losetup output format as DEPRECATED

Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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Karel Zak 2012-11-12 13:23:19 +01:00
parent 896352d390
commit ead259e325
3 changed files with 22 additions and 7 deletions

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@ -12,12 +12,6 @@ lscpu
- detect more hypervisors, see 'virt-what' shell script
http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-what/
losetup
-------
- add new option --list and --output <columns> to print details about
one or all (-a) devices by lib/tt.c output. For example people hate
the hex devno in the default output.
dmesg
-----

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@ -24,6 +24,24 @@ Why: the option -s is in collision with the Loop-AES losetup dialect that is use
--------------------------
What: losetup output format without --list
deprecated format"
# losetup -a
/dev/loop0: []: (/home/fs-images/swap.img)
/dev/loop1: []: (/home/fs-images/disk.img), offset 100
new format:
# losetup
NAME SIZELIMIT OFFSET AUTOCLEAR RO BACK-FILE
/dev/loop0 0 0 0 0 /home/fs-images/swap.img
/dev/loop1 0 100 0 0 /home/fs-images/disk.img
--------------------------
What: elvtune
Why: useless for kernel >= 2.6.9

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@ -67,6 +67,8 @@ to detach loop devices and to query the status of a loop device. If only the
\fIloopdev\fP argument is given, the status of the corresponding loop
device is shown.
Note that the old output format (e.g. losetup -a) with comma delimited strings is
deprecated in favour of the --list output format (e.g. losetup -a -l).
.SH OPTIONS
+The \fIsize\fR and \fIoffset\fR arguments may be followed by the multiplicative
+suffixes KiB=1024, MiB=1024*1024, and so on for GiB, TiB, PiB, EiB, ZiB and YiB
@ -75,7 +77,8 @@ device is shown.
.IP "\fB\-a, \-\-all\fP"
show status of all loop devices. Note that not all information are accessible
for non-root users. See also \fB\-\-list\fP.
for non-root users. See also \fB\-\-list\fP. The old output format (as printed
without --list) is deprecated.
.IP "\fB\-c, \-\-set-capacity\fP \fIloopdev\fP
force loop driver to reread size of the file associated with the specified loop device
.IP "\fB\-d, \-\-detach\fP \fIloopdev\fP..."