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| author | Karel Zak | 2007-06-29 12:06:58 +0200 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2007-06-29 12:06:58 +0200 |
| commit | a424171cd15ca39da64e8b3ba0c38ca814f981f1 (patch) | |
| tree | 56edb597966fc6956a0c77996f5023633b6ae118 /disk-utils/blockdev.8 | |
| parent | blockdev: add BLKFRAGET/BLKFRASET ioctls (diff) | |
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blockdev: cleanup usage() and update man page
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'disk-utils/blockdev.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | disk-utils/blockdev.8 | 22 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/disk-utils/blockdev.8 b/disk-utils/blockdev.8 index 86c29dd2f..db7096eb9 100644 --- a/disk-utils/blockdev.8 +++ b/disk-utils/blockdev.8 @@ -1,8 +1,9 @@ .\" -*- nroff -*- .\" Copyright 1998 Andries E. Brouwer (aeb@cwi.nl) +.\" Copyright 2007 Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> .\" .\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License -.TH BLOCKDEV 8 "May 2000" "" +.TH BLOCKDEV 8 "Jun 2007" "" .SH NAME blockdev \- call block device ioctls from the command line .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -37,8 +38,19 @@ Get read-only. Print 1 if the device is read-only, 0 otherwise. .B \--getss Print sectorsize in bytes - usually 512. .TP +.B \--getbsz +Print blocksize in bytes. +.TP +.BI \--setbsz " N" +Set blocksize to +.I N +bytes. +.TP .B \--getsize -Print device capacity (in 512-byte sectors). +Print device size in sectors. +.TP +.B \--getsize64 +Print device size in bytes. .TP .BI \--setra " N" Set readahead to @@ -59,3 +71,9 @@ Flush buffers. .TP .B \--rereadpt Reread partition table. +.SH AUTHOR +blockdev was written by Andries E. Brouwer. +.SH AVAILABILITY +blockdev is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from +ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/. + |