linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] mke2fs: correct help text for option -G of mke2fs

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Date:	Wed, 4 Jan 2012 00:22:58 -0700
From:	Andreas Dilger <aedilger@...il.com>
To:	Yongqiang Yang <xiaoqiangnk@...il.com>
Cc:	"tytso@....edu" <tytso@....edu>,
	"linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	Yongqiang Yang <xiaoqiangnk@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mke2fs: correct help text for option -G of mke2fs

Probably "flex_group_size" or "flex_group_factor" is as clear and a lot shorter. 

Cheers, Andreas

On 2012-01-03, at 20:29, Yongqiang Yang <xiaoqiangnk@...il.com> wrote:

> The option '-G' is used to pass number of groups in a flex_bg, the
> previous help text - 'meta-group-size' - could confuse users with
> meta_bg.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yongqiang Yang <xiaoqiangnk@...il.com>
> ---
> misc/mke2fs.c |    2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/misc/mke2fs.c b/misc/mke2fs.c
> index 0ef2531..52746fe 100644
> --- a/misc/mke2fs.c
> +++ b/misc/mke2fs.c
> @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ static void usage(void)
>    fprintf(stderr, _("Usage: %s [-c|-l filename] [-b block-size] "
>    "[-C cluster-size]\n\t[-i bytes-per-inode] [-I inode-size] "
>    "[-J journal-options]\n"
> -    "\t[-G meta group size] [-N number-of-inodes]\n"
> +    "\t[-G number-of-groups-per-flex_bg] [-N number-of-inodes]\n"
>    "\t[-m reserved-blocks-percentage] [-o creator-os]\n"
>    "\t[-g blocks-per-group] [-L volume-label] "
>    "[-M last-mounted-directory]\n\t[-O feature[,...]] "
> -- 
> 1.7.5.1
> 
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