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| -rw-r--r-- | disk-utils/mkfs.cramfs.8 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | disk-utils/mkfs.cramfs.c | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/pt-mbr-partnames.h | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/pt-mbr.h | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | sys-utils/eject.1 | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | sys-utils/mount.8 | 88 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | sys-utils/readprofile.8 | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | sys-utils/swapon.8 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | sys-utils/umount.8 | 5 |
9 files changed, 30 insertions, 88 deletions
diff --git a/disk-utils/mkfs.cramfs.8 b/disk-utils/mkfs.cramfs.8 index 9701e1075..31cf84bf6 100644 --- a/disk-utils/mkfs.cramfs.8 +++ b/disk-utils/mkfs.cramfs.8 @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ This option is ignored. Originally the \-s turned on directory entry sorting. .TP \fB\-z\fR -Make explicit holes. Use of this option will require 2.3.39 kernel, or newer. +Make explicit holes. .TP \fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR Display help text and exit. diff --git a/disk-utils/mkfs.cramfs.c b/disk-utils/mkfs.cramfs.c index 9adc2899e..ec83f48da 100644 --- a/disk-utils/mkfs.cramfs.c +++ b/disk-utils/mkfs.cramfs.c @@ -133,12 +133,11 @@ static void __attribute__((__noreturn__)) usage(void) " -b blksize use this blocksize, must equal page size\n" " -e edition set edition number (part of fsid)\n" " -N endian set cramfs endianness (big|little|host), default host\n" - " -i file insert a file image into the filesystem " - "(requires >= 2.4.0)\n" + " -i file insert a file image into the filesystem\n" " -n name set name of cramfs filesystem\n" " -p pad by %d bytes for boot code\n" " -s sort directory entries (old option, ignored)\n" - " -z make explicit holes (requires >= 2.3.39)\n" + " -z make explicit holes\n" " dirname root of the filesystem to be compressed\n" " outfile output file\n"), program_invocation_short_name, PAD_SIZE); diff --git a/include/pt-mbr-partnames.h b/include/pt-mbr-partnames.h index 223fa4967..c9ab626b9 100644 --- a/include/pt-mbr-partnames.h +++ b/include/pt-mbr-partnames.h @@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ {0xf2, N_("DOS secondary")}, /* DOS 3.3+ secondary */ {0xfb, N_("VMware VMFS")}, {0xfc, N_("VMware VMKCORE")}, /* VMware kernel dump partition */ - {0xfd, N_("Linux raid autodetect")},/* New (2.2.x) raid partition with + {0xfd, N_("Linux raid autodetect")},/* Linux raid partition with autodetect using persistent superblock */ {0xfe, N_("LANstep")}, /* SpeedStor >1024 cyl. or LANstep */ diff --git a/include/pt-mbr.h b/include/pt-mbr.h index 177cc7474..1f265ed06 100644 --- a/include/pt-mbr.h +++ b/include/pt-mbr.h @@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ enum { MBR_DOS_SECONDARY_PARTITION = 0xf2, /* DOS 3.3+ secondary */ MBR_VMWARE_VMFS_PARTITION = 0xfb, MBR_VMWARE_VMKCORE_PARTITION = 0xfc, /* VMware kernel dump partition */ - MBR_LINUX_RAID_PARTITION = 0xfd, /* New (2.2.x) raid partition with autodetect using persistent superblock */ + MBR_LINUX_RAID_PARTITION = 0xfd, /* Linux raid partition with autodetect using persistent superblock */ MBR_LANSTEP_PARTITION = 0xfe, /* SpeedStor >1024 cyl. or LANstep */ MBR_XENIX_BBT_PARTITION = 0xff, /* Xenix Bad Block Table */ }; diff --git a/sys-utils/eject.1 b/sys-utils/eject.1 index 13707a42f..f901b239d 100644 --- a/sys-utils/eject.1 +++ b/sys-utils/eject.1 @@ -37,9 +37,9 @@ enabled, the drive automatically ejects when the device is closed. .TP .BR \-c , " \-\-changerslot " \fIslot With this option a CD slot can be selected from an ATAPI/IDE CD-ROM changer. -Linux 2.0 or higher is required to use this feature. The CD-ROM drive cannot -be in use (mounted data CD or playing a music CD) for a change request to work. -Please also note that the first slot of the changer is referred to as 0, not 1. +The CD-ROM drive cannot be in use (mounted data CD or playing a music CD) for +a change request to work. Please also note that the first slot of the changer +is referred to as 0, not 1. .TP .BR \-d , " \-\-default" List the default device name. diff --git a/sys-utils/mount.8 b/sys-utils/mount.8 index 3bd278e6a..25c9b4cdb 100644 --- a/sys-utils/mount.8 +++ b/sys-utils/mount.8 @@ -307,8 +307,7 @@ option is similar, with the restriction that the user must be member of the group of the special file. .SS Bind mounts -Since Linux 2.4.0 it is possible to remount part of the -file hierarchy somewhere else. The call is: +Remount part of the file hierarchy somewhere else. The call is: .RS .br @@ -402,9 +401,9 @@ file. .RE .SS The move operation -Since Linux 2.5.1 it is possible to atomically move a +Move a .B mounted tree -to another place. The call is: +to another place (atomically). The call is: .RS .br @@ -982,8 +981,6 @@ Permit execution of binaries. .TP .B noexec Do not permit direct execution of any binaries on the mounted filesystem. -(Until recently it was possible to run binaries anyway using a command like -/lib/ld*.so /mnt/binary. This trick fails since Linux 2.4.25 / 2.6.0.) .TP .B group Allow an ordinary user to mount the filesystem if one @@ -1555,7 +1552,7 @@ configuration. .SS "Mount options for ext2" The `ext2' filesystem is the standard Linux filesystem. -Since Linux 2.5.46, for most mount options the default +For most mount options the default is determined by the filesystem superblock. Set them with .BR tune2fs (8). .TP @@ -1652,17 +1649,9 @@ These options determine who can use the reserved blocks. Instead of block 1, use block .I n as superblock. This could be useful when the filesystem has been damaged. -(Earlier, copies of the superblock would be made every 8192 blocks: in -block 1, 8193, 16385, \&...\& (and one got thousands of copies on -a big filesystem). Since version 1.08, -.B mke2fs -has a \-s (sparse superblock) option to reduce the number of backup -superblocks, and since version 1.15 this is the default. Note -that this may mean that ext2 filesystems created by a recent -.B mke2fs -cannot be mounted r/w under Linux 2.0.*.) -The block number here uses 1\ k units. Thus, if you want to use logical -block 32768 on a filesystem with 4\ k blocks, use "sb=131072". +See +.B dumpe2fs /dev/foo | grep superblock +to list alternatively usable superblocks. .TP .BR user_xattr | nouser_xattr Support "user." extended attributes (or not). @@ -1937,13 +1926,11 @@ The value is given in octal. Set the umask applied to directories only. The default is the umask of the current process. The value is given in octal. -.\" Present since Linux 2.5.43. .TP .BI fmask= value Set the umask applied to regular files only. The default is the umask of the current process. The value is given in octal. -.\" Present since Linux 2.5.43. .TP .BI allow_utime= value This option controls the permission check of mtime/atime. @@ -1993,33 +1980,7 @@ Sets the codepage for converting to shortname characters on FAT and VFAT filesystems. By default, codepage 437 is used. .TP .BI conv= mode -The -.I fat -filesystem can perform CRLF<-->NL conversion (MS-DOS text format to UNIX text -format) in the kernel. The following conversion \fImode\fRs are available: -.RS -.TP -.BR b [ inary ] -No translation is performed. This is the default. -.TP -.BR t [ ext ] -CRLF<-->NL translation is performed on all files. -.TP -.BR a [ uto ] -CRLF<-->NL translation is performed on all files that don't have a -"well-known binary" extension. The list of known extensions can be found at -the beginning of -.I fs/fat/misc.c -(as of 2.0, the list is: exe, com, bin, app, sys, drv, ovl, ovr, obj, -lib, dll, pif, arc, zip, lha, lzh, zoo, tar, z, arj, tz, taz, tzp, tpz, -gz, tgz, deb, gif, bmp, tif, gl, jpg, pcx, tfm, vf, gf, pk, pxl, dvi). -.PP -Programs that do computed lseeks won't like in-kernel text conversion. -Several people have had their data ruined by this translation. Beware! - -For filesystems mounted in binary mode, a conversion tool -(fromdos/todos) is available. This option is obsolete. -.RE +This option is obsolete and may fail or being ignored. .TP .BI cvf_format= module Forces the driver to use the CVF (Compressed Volume File) module @@ -2190,18 +2151,8 @@ Convert all files names to lower case, or leave them. (Default: .BR case=lower .) .TP -.BR conv= { binary | text | auto } -For -.BR conv=text , -delete some random CRs (in particular, all followed by NL) -when reading a file. -For -.BR conv=auto , -choose more or less at random between -.BR conv=binary " and " conv=text . -For -.BR conv=binary , -just read what is in the file. This is the default. +.BI conv= mode +This option is obsolete and may fail or being ignored. .TP .B nocheck Do not abort mounting when certain consistency checks fail. @@ -2267,8 +2218,7 @@ but also apply Acorn extensions if present. .BI mode= value For non-Rock Ridge volumes, give all files the indicated mode. (Default: read and execute permission for everybody.) -Since Linux 2.1.37 one no longer needs to specify the mode in -decimal. (Octal is indicated by a leading 0.) +Octal mode values require a leading 0. .TP .B unhide Also show hidden and associated files. @@ -2280,12 +2230,8 @@ Set the block size to the indicated value. (Default: .BR block=1024 .) .TP -.BR conv= { a [ uto ]| b [ inary ]| m [ text ]| t [ ext ]} -(Default: -.BR conv=binary .) -Since Linux 1.3.54 this option has no effect anymore. -(And non-binary settings used to be very dangerous, -possibly leading to silent data corruption.) +.BI conv= mode +This option is obsolete and may fail or being ignored. .TP .B cruft If the high byte of the file length contains other garbage, @@ -2293,10 +2239,10 @@ set this mount option to ignore the high order bits of the file length. This implies that a file cannot be larger than 16\ MB. .TP .BI session= x -Select number of session on multisession CD. (Since 2.3.4.) +Select number of session on multisession CD. .TP .BI sbsector= xxx -Session begins from sector xxx. (Since 2.3.4.) +Session begins from sector xxx. .LP The following options are the same as for vfat and specifying them only makes sense when using discs encoded using Microsoft's Joliet extensions. @@ -2389,12 +2335,10 @@ and the current version of Character set to use when returning file names. Unlike VFAT, NTFS suppresses names that contain nonconvertible characters. Deprecated. -.\" since 2.5.11 .TP .BI nls= name New name for the option earlier called .IR iocharset . -.\" since 2.5.11 .TP .B utf8 Use UTF-8 for converting file names. @@ -2461,7 +2405,7 @@ These options are recognized, but have no effect as far as I can see. .SS "Mount options for ramfs" Ramfs is a memory based filesystem. Mount it and you have it. Unmount it -and it is gone. Present since Linux 2.3.99pre4. +and it is gone. There are no mount options. .SS "Mount options for reiserfs" diff --git a/sys-utils/readprofile.8 b/sys-utils/readprofile.8 index 60a7adabe..9686380e0 100644 --- a/sys-utils/readprofile.8 +++ b/sys-utils/readprofile.8 @@ -52,9 +52,9 @@ fly. On some architectures it is possible to alter the frequency at which the kernel delivers profiling interrupts to each CPU. This option allows you to set the frequency, as a multiplier of the system clock -frequency, HZ. This is supported on i386-SMP (2.2 and 2.4 kernel) -and also on sparc-SMP and sparc64-SMP (2.4 kernel). This option also -resets the profiling buffer, and requires superuser privileges. +frequency, HZ. Linux 2.6.16 dropped multiplier support for most systems. +This option also resets the profiling buffer, and requires superuser +privileges. .TP \fB\-p\fR, \fB\-\-profile\fR \fIpro-file\fR Specify a different profiling buffer, which by default is diff --git a/sys-utils/swapon.8 b/sys-utils/swapon.8 index 2a9a8268c..3c66c8188 100644 --- a/sys-utils/swapon.8 +++ b/sys-utils/swapon.8 @@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ When no priority is defined, it defaults to \-1. .TP .BR \-s , " \-\-summary" Display swap usage summary by device. Equivalent to "cat /proc/swaps". -Not available before Linux 2.1.25. This output format is DEPRECATED in favour +This output format is DEPRECATED in favour of \fB\-\-show\fR that provides better control on output data. .TP .BR \-\-show [ =\fIcolumn\fR ...] diff --git a/sys-utils/umount.8 b/sys-utils/umount.8 index 80df50cc5..1e27f01f8 100644 --- a/sys-utils/umount.8 +++ b/sys-utils/umount.8 @@ -105,8 +105,7 @@ that were unmounted earlier with the option. .TP .BR \-f , " \-\-force" -Force an unmount (in case of an unreachable NFS system). (Requires kernel -2.1.116 or later.) +Force an unmount (in case of an unreachable NFS system). Note that this option does not guarantee that umount command does not hang. It's strongly recommended to use absolute paths without symlinks to avoid @@ -119,7 +118,7 @@ By default such a helper program is called if it exists. .BR \-l , " \-\-lazy" Lazy unmount. Detach the filesystem from the file hierarchy now, and clean up all references to this filesystem as soon as it is not busy -anymore. (Requires kernel 2.4.11 or later.) +anymore. .TP .BR \-n , " \-\-no\-mtab" Unmount without writing in |