From: Eric Sandeen Subject: [PATCH V2] mke2fs.8.in: clarify the sign of a block-size constraint. Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:59:42 -0500 Message-ID: <4C51B37E.4020404@redhat.com> References: <20100724220124.GO4032@pooh.frostnet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Chris Frost Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:21636 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753627Ab0G2Q7w (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:59:52 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20100724220124.GO4032@pooh.frostnet.net> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This bit of the mke2fs manpage is slightly confusing: -b block-size Specify the size of blocks in bytes. 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 Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen --- 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