This bit of the mke2fs manpage is slightly confusing:
-b block-size
Specify the size of blocks in bytes. <snip>
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 <chris@frostnet.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
.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