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| author | Karel Zak | 2010-03-30 14:05:58 +0200 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2010-03-30 14:45:29 +0200 |
| commit | 69cc2ec06158d7849e6ae8c95f944f044e7b380d (patch) | |
| tree | 61d3baa962d109d333897f640fc61986364dc3c7 /misc-utils/wipefs.8 | |
| parent | blkid: support suffixes for -O <offset> and -S <size> (diff) | |
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wipefs: support suffixes for --offset
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'misc-utils/wipefs.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | misc-utils/wipefs.8 | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/misc-utils/wipefs.8 b/misc-utils/wipefs.8 index 109c0a6b4..973f2ef22 100644 --- a/misc-utils/wipefs.8 +++ b/misc-utils/wipefs.8 @@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ Causes everything to be done except for the write() call. Specifies location (in bytes) of the signature which should be erased from the device. The offset number may include a "0x" prefix, and then the number will be read as a hex value. It is possible to specify multiple -o options. + +The \fIoffset\fR argument 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. .IP "\fB\-p, \-\-parsable\fP" Print out in parsable instead of printable format. Encode all potentially unsafe characters of a string to the corresponding hex value prefixed by '\\x'. |