Fix mke2fs man page's description of the -L option

Fix mke2fs man page to properly document the fact that mke2fs -L takes
an argument.  (Addresses Debian Bug #322188)

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

diff --git a/misc/ChangeLog b/misc/ChangeLog
index 82e33b4fe433de11ab022a573a8b11170298a55e..62f11c823a23b92f5535a3401ec923f9e01b1565 100644 (file)
--- a/misc/ChangeLog
+++ b/misc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 2005-09-24  Theodore Ts'o  <tytso@mit.edu>
 
+       * mke2fs.8.in: Fix mke2fs man page to properly document the fact
+               that mke2fs -L takes an argument.  (Addresses Debian Bug
+               #322188)
+
        * badblocks.c: Add extra spaces when printing the "done" message
                to clear out the block number to fix a display corruption
                when the -s option is used to display the progress of the

diff --git a/misc/mke2fs.8.in b/misc/mke2fs.8.in
index 1b1bb6772344a2648ea3f539c956b3b2d9e7c4a7..51e07ed03def4fc8c165bfe4f15182325b6cf04c 100644 (file)
--- a/misc/mke2fs.8.in
+++ b/misc/mke2fs.8.in
@@ -290,8 +290,11 @@ will automatically pass the correct parameters to the
 .B badblocks
 program.
 .TP
-.B \-L
-Set the volume label for the filesystem.
+.BI \-L " new-volume-label"
+Set the volume label for the filesystem to
+.IR new-volume-label .
+The maximum length of the
+volume label is 16 bytes.
 .TP
 .BI \-m " reserved-blocks-percentage"
 Specify the percentage of the filesystem blocks reserved for