Document the default blocksize used by badblocks(8).

(Addresses Debian Bug #273679)

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index ac1f72854cf1d005c39f5ab59af290972551b902..c37c4c093d3f1282de3ea7206dec400a91a30253 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+e2fsprogs (1.35-9) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Minor man page clarifications.  (Closes: #273679)
+
+ -- Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>  Tue, 28 Sep 2004 10:29:29 -0400
+
 e2fsprogs (1.35-8) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Remove double "//" when listing attributes in the root directory or

diff --git a/misc/ChangeLog b/misc/ChangeLog
index 82579c39daed8822eee360bfd6c23fde21a28570..0a4191b907d2c42378b7ac12a43c689c77559cdf 100644 (file)
--- a/misc/ChangeLog
+++ b/misc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2004-09-28  Theodore Ts'o  <tytso@mit.edu>
+
+       * badblocks.8.in: Document the default block size.  (Addresses
+               Debian Bug #273679)
+
 2004-09-25  Theodore Ts'o  <tytso@mit.edu>
 
        * mke2fs.c (set_fs_defaults): Only use blocksizes > 4k on Linux

diff --git a/misc/badblocks.8.in b/misc/badblocks.8.in
index f70db46800f06219a4e5952ad4c221cc8d4bceb7..78b8cb50f70f0d1007bbc8538ab7f54c293a0f06 100644 (file)
--- a/misc/badblocks.8.in
+++ b/misc/badblocks.8.in
@@ -60,7 +60,8 @@ or
 .B mke2fs
 programs, it is important that the block size is properly specified,
 since the block numbers which are generated are very dependent on the 
-block size in use.   For this reason, it is strongly recommended that
+block size in use by the filesystem.   
+For this reason, it is strongly recommended that
 users 
 .B not
 run 
@@ -75,7 +76,7 @@ programs.
 .SH OPTIONS
 .TP
 .BI \-b " block-size"
-Specify the size of blocks in bytes.
+Specify the size of blocks in bytes.  The default is 1024.
 .TP
 .BI \-c " number of blocks"
 is the number of blocks which are tested at a time.  The default is 64.