Update the man pages of blkid, wipefs, fallocate, fstrim, losetup
and hexdump to clarify the suffixes for the numerical values of the
offset and size/length arguments regarding KiB=1024 vs KB=1000.
Also mention the ZiB/YiB and ZB/YB suffixes supported by strtosize().
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>
Why?
* read-only root
* /etc is pretty bad place for caches
* all is usually cached by udev in /dev/disk/by-* and libblkid
is able to use these symlinks
* boot persistent cache is attractive for very small subset of
Linux machines (and they already need extra udev tunning otherwise
udev will probe all block devices during boot)
* the default is possible to override in /etc/blkid.conf
The systems without /run directory will not be affected by this
change.
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
The option does not have any effect, the original functionality was
removed from e2fsprogs in year 2003 by
commit 50b380b4d4ab668bad45033e3a8aaf93c7f42844
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git
So.. don't propagate the option to users in year 2012 :-)
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Use dates without the day, use the full month name, put "util-linux" in
the lower left corner, and "User Commands" or "System Administration"
at the top center.
Also improve here and there the one-line program description.
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
This output format is similar to 'udev' but without udev specific
prefixed (e.g. ID_FS_*). The 'export' format is automatically enabled
for I/O Limits (-i).
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
This option allows to restrict low-level probing to the defined list
of superbocks (filesystems or RAIDs). For example:
blkid -p -n ext3,ext4,vfat /dev/sda1
or
blkid -p -n novfat /dev/sda1
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
... sad story, I have temporary disabled pretty-output code
in very early version of blkid.c in u-l-ng. (It was also in
time when pretty-output was very new feature in e2fsprogs.)
Unfortunately, the -L option (shortcut to "-o list") in u-l-ng version
was reused for for any other functionality few months later.... this
stupid thing was released in u-l-ng 2.15 and 2.16 without any negative
feedback from users.
It means the blkid from u-l-ng is not backwardly compatible with
the original version from e2fsprogs. The -L option has a different
meaning there.
I'm sorry about this bug...
This patch:
* enable pretty-output (-o line)
* add a note about incompatibility between u-l-ng and e2fsprogs
to blkid.8 man page
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
The others utilities are in one of the top-level directories. That's
confusing to have blkid(8) and findfs(8) in shlibs/ tree.
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Bernhard Voelker
Karel Zak
Dave Reisner
Benno Schulenberg