From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:08:23 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: blockdev: make –-getbsz less confusing for end-users
X-Git-Tag: v2.34-rc1~87
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c9fbfcfc492893defa030bf027714c047c6b4524;p=thirdparty%2Futil-linux.git

blockdev: make –-getbsz less confusing for end-users

Addresses: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1684078
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/disk-utils/blockdev.8 b/disk-utils/blockdev.8
index fb00606382..5d85c01b79 100644
--- a/disk-utils/blockdev.8
+++ b/disk-utils/blockdev.8
@@ -44,7 +44,9 @@ Flush buffers.
 .IP "\fB\-\-getalignoff\fP"
 Get alignment offset.
 .IP "\fB\-\-getbsz\fP"
-Print blocksize in bytes.
+Print blocksize in bytes.  This size does not describe device topology.  It's
+size used internally by kernel and it maybe modified (for example) by
+filesystem driver on mount.
 .IP "\fB\-\-getdiscardzeroes\fP"
 Get discard zeroes support status.
 .IP "\fB\-\-getfra\fP"