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| author | Bernhard Voelker | 2012-03-26 11:30:16 +0200 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2012-03-30 15:23:32 +0200 |
| commit | d636d6d82acb7c62c670fc0d291182cb3b950118 (patch) | |
| tree | 3f94085580dd6a42e93de5fef3f920acad5fb8e8 /misc-utils/blkid.8 | |
| parent | tools: improve ko-release-* scripts (diff) | |
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docs: clarify KiB vs. KB in man pages
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'misc-utils/blkid.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | misc-utils/blkid.8 | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/misc-utils/blkid.8 b/misc-utils/blkid.8 index 37d13bfad..f5f4f9d17 100644 --- a/misc-utils/blkid.8 +++ b/misc-utils/blkid.8 @@ -69,9 +69,10 @@ has two main forms of operation: either searching for a device with a specific NAME=value pair, or displaying NAME=value pairs for one or more specified devices. .SH OPTIONS -The \fIsize\fR and \fIoffset\fR arguments may be followed by binary (2^N) -suffixes KiB, MiB, GiB, TiB, PiB and EiB (the "iB" is optional, e.g. "K" has the -same meaning as "KiB") or decimal (10^N) suffixes KB, MB, GB, PB and EB. +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 +(the "iB" is optional, e.g. "K" has the same meaning as "KiB") or the suffixes +KB=1000, MB=1000*1000, and so on for GB, PB, EB, ZB and YB. .TP .BI \-c " cachefile" Read from |