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| author | Peter Breitenlohner | 2009-07-22 11:29:05 +0200 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2009-08-17 12:11:12 +0200 |
| commit | f7963004763cabd9256e92cd9acc1737df8181c4 (patch) | |
| tree | 851ced3030b19628ad979b7e0ae15b645c7b8eda /mount/losetup.8 | |
| parent | fstab.5: formatting (diff) | |
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losetup.8: formatting
Signed-off-by: Peter Breitenlohner <peb@mppmu.mpg.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'mount/losetup.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | mount/losetup.8 | 14 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/mount/losetup.8 b/mount/losetup.8 index f5d3e179b..8ccab6cef 100644 --- a/mount/losetup.8 +++ b/mount/losetup.8 @@ -21,9 +21,7 @@ Delete loop: .sp .in +5 .B "losetup \-d" -.I loopdev -.RB [ \fIloopdev\fP -.RB ...] +.IR loopdev ... .sp .in -5 Print name of first unused loop device: @@ -36,7 +34,7 @@ Setup loop device: .sp .in +5 .B losetup -.RB [{\-e | \-E} +.RB [{ \-e | \-E } .IR encryption ] .RB [ \-o .IR offset ] @@ -46,7 +44,7 @@ Setup loop device: .RB [ \-p .IR pfd ] .RB [ \-r ] -.RB { \-f [ \-\-show ] | \fIloopdev\fP } +.RB { \-f [ \-\-show ]| \fIloopdev\fP } .I file .sp .in -13 @@ -78,13 +76,13 @@ number, probably by patching the kernel. Standard numbers that are always present are 0 (no encryption) and 1 (XOR encryption). When the cryptoloop module is loaded (or compiled in), it uses number 18. This cryptoloop module will take the name of an arbitrary encryption type -and finds the module that knows how to perform that encryption. +and find the module that knows how to perform that encryption. .SH OPTIONS .IP "\fB\-a, \-\-all\fP" show status of all loop devices .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 [\fIloopdev\fP ...]" +.IP "\fB\-d, \-\-detach\fP \fIloopdev\fP..." detach the file or device associated with the specified loop device(s) .IP "\fB\-e, \-E, \-\-encryption \fIencryption_type\fP" enable data encryption with specified name or number @@ -169,7 +167,7 @@ the command DES encryption is painfully slow. On the other hand, XOR is terribly weak. Cryptoloop is deprecated in favor of dm-crypt. For more details see -.B cryptsetup(8). +.BR cryptsetup (8). .SH AVAILABILITY The losetup command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/. |