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.TP
.BR \-s , " \-\-size " \fIsize
Force the zram driver to reread the size of the file associated with
-the specified zram device
-
+the specified zram device. When not specified the
+.I size
+unit is bytes. The zram devices size is page size aligned. When
+requested
+.I size
+does match with page size the device be large enough to hold the reqested
+.I size
+plus length to next page boundary.
+.IP
The \fIsize\fR argument 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