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authorKarel Zak2012-11-12 13:23:19 +0100
committerKarel Zak2012-11-12 13:23:19 +0100
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parentlosetup: add --list and --output option (diff)
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docs: mark old losetup output format as DEPRECATED
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/sys-utils/losetup.8 b/sys-utils/losetup.8
index 9613e46ce..bbab44bc5 100644
--- a/sys-utils/losetup.8
+++ b/sys-utils/losetup.8
@@ -67,6 +67,8 @@ to detach loop devices and to query the status of a loop device. If only the
\fIloopdev\fP argument is given, the status of the corresponding loop
device is shown.
+Note that the old output format (e.g. losetup -a) with comma delimited strings is
+deprecated in favour of the --list output format (e.g. losetup -a -l).
.SH OPTIONS
+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
@@ -75,7 +77,8 @@ device is shown.
.IP "\fB\-a, \-\-all\fP"
show status of all loop devices. Note that not all information are accessible
-for non-root users. See also \fB\-\-list\fP.
+for non-root users. See also \fB\-\-list\fP. The old output format (as printed
+without --list) is deprecated.
.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..."