There is quite some value (in terms of readability and user
expectations) if consistent names are used for the sections
within manual pages. This patch is one of a series to bring
about this consistency.
In the Linux man-pages project, I long ago did away with the
AUTHOR(S) section, but I realize some projects like to keep this.
But, let's make sure that the section is consistently titled
across pages. Currently we have AUTHOR (47) or AUTHORS (41).
Let's standardize on the latter (which is also what is
suggested in man-pages(7)).
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Transform some of them into copyright lines.
Also fix three header lines and snip some trailing whitespace.
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
Macro, that alternately changes the input between two font styles,
changed to the macro for one font style change, if there is only one
argument
Text string, that begins or ends with a full stop (.) protected with \&
-- changed to \-\- if it is an option
- changed to \(en if it is a dash (pause, seperation)
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
This reverts commit b1555acc2f.
It seems that the option is used by kernel guys to test kernel, so
let's keep the option in the blockdev(8) although it's almost useless
in userspace. All we need is to improve docs to make things more
obvious to end users.
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
This option has never worked. If you try setting the block size on a
block device, and then read it using --getbsz, you will see that the
block size never changes.
The reason for this is because the block size is specific to the
current file descriptor opening the block device, so the change of
block size only persists for as long as blockdev has the device open,
and is lost once blockdev exits.
Also the block size is not really used anywhere. Filesystems, for
example, have their own idea of block size and ignore this setting
completely.
(Thanks Masayoshi Mizuma for diagnosing the problem)
Signed-off-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@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>
In Linux 2.6 the BLKRASET ioctl has the desired effect for mounted
file-systems. In Linux 2.4 it appears to set the number of blocks to
read-ahead on the *device* as opposed to within a *file*, and the
maximum value of this number is 255. As a result the invocation of
blockdev will fail on Linux 2.4 for any usefully large value of
READAHEAD, and will not in any case have the desired affect for
fragmented files.
(Based on the blockdev-getfra-setfra.patch Debian patch.)
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Jakub Wilk
Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
Karel Zak
Ruediger Meier
Sébastien Helleu
Sebastian Rasmussen
Benno Schulenberg
Bjarni Ingi Gislason
Richard W.M. Jones
Davidlohr Bueso
Peter Breitenlohner
Li Zefan