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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 /text-utils/hexdump.1 | |
| 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 'text-utils/hexdump.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | text-utils/hexdump.1 | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/text-utils/hexdump.1 b/text-utils/hexdump.1 index 0b3a5256f..84ecaf4a7 100644 --- a/text-utils/hexdump.1 +++ b/text-utils/hexdump.1 @@ -44,9 +44,10 @@ utility is a filter which displays the specified files, or standard input if no files are specified, in a user-specified format. .SH OPTIONS -The \fIlength\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 \fIlength\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 .B \-b \fIOne-byte octal display\fR. Display the input offset in hexadecimal, |