From: Alvin Zheng <Alvin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Alvin Zheng <Alvin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8 | 23 ++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8 b/man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8 index 4b8c78c..bf2ad54 100644 --- a/man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8 +++ b/man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8 @@ -115,9 +115,12 @@ When specifying parameters in units of sectors or filesystem blocks, the .B \-s option or the .B \-b -option first needs to be added to the command line. -Failure to specify the size of the units will result in illegal value errors -when parameters are quantified in those units. +option can be used to specify the size of the sector or block. The +.B \-s +option and the +.B \-b +should be placed before any options in units of sectors or blocks. If the size of the block +or sector is not specified, the default size (block: 4KiB, sector: 512B) will be used. .PP Many feature options allow an optional argument of 0 or 1, to explicitly disable or enable the functionality. @@ -136,9 +139,10 @@ The filesystem block size is specified with a in bytes. The default value is 4096 bytes (4 KiB), the minimum is 512, and the maximum is 65536 (64 KiB). .IP -To specify any options on the command line in units of filesystem blocks, this -option must be specified first so that the filesystem block size is -applied consistently to all options. +If a non-default filesystem block size is specified, the option +must be specified before any options that use filesystem block size +units so that the non-default filesystem block size is applied +consistently to all options. .IP Although .B mkfs.xfs @@ -895,9 +899,10 @@ is 512 bytes. The minimum value for sector size is must be a power of 2 size and cannot be made larger than the filesystem block size. .IP -To specify any options on the command line in units of sectors, this -option must be specified first so that the sector size is -applied consistently to all options. +If a non-default sector size is specified, the option +must be specified before any options that use sector size +units so that the non-default sector size is applied +consistently to all options. .RE .TP .BI \-L " label" -- 1.8.3.1
