From 9518b297277799e3893db1650c891310243596b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 17:50:54 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] mke2fs: clarify documentation about bigalloc in the man page Addresses-Debian-Bug: #669730 Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" --- misc/mke2fs.8.in | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/misc/mke2fs.8.in b/misc/mke2fs.8.in index 9679780..fea50da 100644 --- a/misc/mke2fs.8.in +++ b/misc/mke2fs.8.in @@ -190,9 +190,11 @@ test is used instead of a fast read-only test. .B \-C " cluster-size" Specify the size of cluster in bytes for filesystems using the bigalloc feature. Valid cluster-size values are from 2048 to 256M bytes per -cluster. By default (if bigalloc is enabled and no cluster size is -otherwise specified using this option), the cluster size will be 16 -times the block size. +cluster. This can only be specified if the bigalloc feature is +enabled. (See the +.B ext4 (5) +man page for more details about bigalloc.) The default cluster size if +bigalloc is enabled is 16 times the block size. .TP .B \-D Use direct I/O when writing to the disk. This avoids mke2fs dirtying a -- 1.8.3.1