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authorRuediger Meier2017-06-14 00:14:13 +0200
committerKarel Zak2017-06-14 11:48:22 +0200
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misc: POSIX usage dd, regarding unit suffixes
In POSIX we have only 'b' and 'k' (case-sensitive). In the real work, OSX was the only system I've found which does not understand capital 'K'. Signed-off-by: Ruediger Meier <ruediger.meier@ga-group.nl>
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diff --git a/sys-utils/losetup.8 b/sys-utils/losetup.8
index 60e9ff04f..9dab58037 100644
--- a/sys-utils/losetup.8
+++ b/sys-utils/losetup.8
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ loop control device
The following commands can be used as an example of using the loop device.
.nf
.IP
-# dd if=/dev/zero of=~/file.img bs=1MiB count=10
+# dd if=/dev/zero of=~/file.img bs=1024k count=10
# losetup --find --show ~/file.img
/dev/loop0
# mkfs -t ext2 /dev/loop0