linux-ext4 - [PATCH V2] mke2fs.8.in: clarify the sign of a block-size constraint.

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Message-ID: <4C51B37E.4020404@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:59:42 -0500
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	Chris Frost <chris@...stnet.net>
CC:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH V2] mke2fs.8.in: clarify the sign of a block-size constraint.

This bit of the mke2fs manpage is slightly confusing:

-b block-size
    Specify the size of blocks in bytes. <snip>
    If block-size is negative, then mke2fs will use heuristics 
    to determine the appropriate block size, with the constraint 
    that the block size will be at least block-size bytes.

because it sounds like the block size will be at least a negative
number.  Clarify just what the negative sign means.

Reported-by: Chris Frost <chris@...stnet.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
---

diff --git a/misc/mke2fs.8.in b/misc/mke2fs.8.in
index 45a99f8..b46e7e2 100644
--- a/misc/mke2fs.8.in
+++ b/misc/mke2fs.8.in
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ the expected usage of the filesystem (see the
 .B \-T
 option).  If
 .I block-size
-is negative, then
+is preceded by a negative sign ('-'), then
 .B mke2fs
 will use heuristics to determine the
 appropriate block size, with the constraint that the block size will be

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