From ead259e325367b1752d63dbbdb63dc53cd1c632b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Karel Zak Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:23:19 +0100 Subject: docs: mark old losetup output format as DEPRECATED Signed-off-by: Karel Zak --- sys-utils/losetup.8 | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'sys-utils/losetup.8') 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..." -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522