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| author | Karel Zak | 2012-11-12 13:23:19 +0100 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2012-11-12 13:23:19 +0100 |
| commit | ead259e325367b1752d63dbbdb63dc53cd1c632b (patch) | |
| tree | 7af1da281758a882426df92403ae546865f5858b | |
| parent | losetup: add --list and --output option (diff) | |
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docs: mark old losetup output format as DEPRECATED
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/TODO | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/deprecated.txt | 18 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | sys-utils/losetup.8 | 5 |
3 files changed, 22 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/TODO b/Documentation/TODO index 6b4f2ad56..e9faa5506 100644 --- a/Documentation/TODO +++ b/Documentation/TODO @@ -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 ----- diff --git a/Documentation/deprecated.txt b/Documentation/deprecated.txt index 8797805b6..2d43cb0ae 100644 --- a/Documentation/deprecated.txt +++ b/Documentation/deprecated.txt @@ -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 diff --git a/sys-utils/losetup.8 b/sys-utils/losetup.8 index 9613e46ce..bbab44bc5 100644 --- a/sys-utils/losetup.8 +++ b/sys-utils/losetup.8 @@ -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..." |