On 2/9/11 7:03 AM, Lukas Czerner wrote: > (v2: do not spell units - mebibytes etc... - but rather use just abbrev.) > > Decimal units (kilobyte 10^3, megabyte 10^6 etc...) were used in > mke2fs manual page, however they was really meant to be binary units > (kibibyte 2^10, mebibyte 2^20 etc...), so change the man pages to > reflect that fact, even if it sounds weird. > > Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@xxxxxxxxxx> Specificity is good, IMHO. Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > misc/mke2fs.8.in | 14 +++++++------- > 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/misc/mke2fs.8.in b/misc/mke2fs.8.in > index e093be0..7933dca 100644 > --- a/misc/mke2fs.8.in > +++ b/misc/mke2fs.8.in > @@ -354,9 +354,9 @@ The following journal options are supported: > .BI size= journal-size > Create an internal journal (i.e., stored inside the filesystem) of size > .I journal-size > -megabytes. > +MiB. > The size of the journal must be at least 1024 filesystem blocks > -(i.e., 1MB if using 1k blocks, 4MB if using 4k blocks, etc.) > +(i.e., 1MiB if using 1024 byte blocks, 4MiB if using 4096 byte blocks, etc.) > and may be no more than 102,400 filesystem blocks. > @JDEV@.TP > @JDEV@.BI device= external-journal > @@ -633,21 +633,21 @@ using a comma separated list. > If this option is is not specified, > .B mke2fs > will pick a single default usage type based on the size of the filesystem to > -be created. If the filesystem size is less than or equal to 3 megabytes, > +be created. If the filesystem size is less than or equal to 3 MiB, > .B mke2fs > will use the filesystem type > .IR floppy . > If the filesystem size is greater than 3 but less than or equal to > -512 megabytes, > +512 MiB, > .BR mke2fs (8) > will use the filesystem type > .IR small . > -If the filesystem size is greater than or equal to 4 terabytes but less than > -16 terabytes, > +If the filesystem size is greater than or equal to 4 TiB but less than > +16 TiB, > .BR mke2fs (8) > will use the filesystem type > .IR big . > -If the filesystem size is greater than or equal to 16 terabytes, > +If the filesystem size is greater than or equal to 16 TiB, > .BR mke2fs (8) > will use the filesystem type > .IR huge . -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
