From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 14:30:27 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Document the default blocksize used by badblocks(8).
X-Git-Tag: E2FSPROGS-1_36~128
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=df95e09a5256529b7bb145a5a98c52aacdbfb65b;p=thirdparty%2Fe2fsprogs.git

Document the default blocksize used by badblocks(8).
(Addresses Debian Bug #273679)
---

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index ac1f72854..c37c4c093 100644
--- 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 82579c39d..0a4191b90 100644
--- 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 f70db4680..78b8cb50f 100644
--- 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.