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authorDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>2015-01-02 17:51:06 +0100
committerDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>2015-01-03 02:30:36 +0100
commit18bf3f15a3cdac7055773d308d07408043c57b27 (patch)
tree8f6b594fb0a78bf006fe10c6bf971f0885d94825 /Documentation/btrfs-filesystem.txt
parentb4d03be6358d82754ec52ea674c08513da6134b6 (diff)
btrfs-progs: doc filesystem, add unit suffixes to option descriptions
Reported-by: Chris Murphy <lists@colorremedies.com> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
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diff --git a/Documentation/btrfs-filesystem.txt b/Documentation/btrfs-filesystem.txt
index 654847ca..24aa3a63 100644
--- a/Documentation/btrfs-filesystem.txt
+++ b/Documentation/btrfs-filesystem.txt
@@ -77,22 +77,23 @@ compress file contents while defragmenting
defragment files recursively
-f::::
flush filesystem after defragmenting
--s <start>::::
+-s <start>[kKmMgGtTpPeE]::::
defragment only from byte <start> onward
--l <len>::::
+-l <len>[kKmMgGtTpPeE]::::
defragment only up to <len> bytes
--t <size>::::
+-t <size>[kKmMgGtTpPeE]::::
defragment only files at least <size> bytes big
+
-For <start>, <len>, <size> it is possible to append a suffix
-like 'k' for 1 KBytes, 'm' for 1 MBytes...
+For <start>, <len>, <size> it is possible to append
+units designator: \'K', \'M', \'G', \'T', \'P', or \'E', which represent
+KiB, MiB, GiB, TiB, PiB, or EiB, respectively. Case does not matter.
+
WARNING: defragmenting with kernels up to 2.6.37 will unlink COW-ed copies of data,
don't use it if you use snapshots, have de-duplicated your data or made
copies with `cp --reflink`.
// Some wording are extracted by the resize2fs man page
-*resize* [<devid>:][+/-]<size>[gkm]|[<devid>:]max <path>::
+*resize* [<devid>:][+/-]<size>[kKmMgGtTpPeE]|[<devid>:]max <path>::
Resize a filesystem identified by <path> for the underlying device
devid *online*. +
The devid can be found with *btrfs filesystem show* and
@@ -103,8 +104,7 @@ by the quantity <size>.
If no units are specified, the unit of the <size> parameter defaults to
bytes. Optionally, the size parameter may be suffixed by one of the following
units designators: \'K', \'M', \'G', \'T', \'P', or \'E', which represent
-KiB, MiB, GiB, TiB, PiB, or EiB, respectively.
-
+KiB, MiB, GiB, TiB, PiB, or EiB, respectively. Case does not matter.
+
If \'max' is passed, the filesystem will occupy all available space on the
device devid.