Document --size=max option for --grow

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index d23bf4b435bac53ca7899899fe3580be92c6bb6d..edaffba819ba7ea0014c41b35f3ee6e6b71cee26 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 Changes Prior to this release
     -   Don't use 'lstat' to check for blockdevices, use stat.
+    -   Document --size=max option for --grow
        
 Changes Prior to 1.11.0 release
     -   Fix embarassing bug which causes --add to always fail.

diff --git a/mdadm.8 b/mdadm.8
index 2555f63daf5e757f33c32917f0df3b9d37ffda85..649c95107ab1d8ef7726627f66ad6de0878edee7 100644 (file)
--- a/mdadm.8
+++ b/mdadm.8
@@ -388,6 +388,9 @@ for RAID level 1/4/5/6. If the array was created with a size smaller
 than the currently active drives, the extra space can be accessed
 using
 .BR --grow .
+The size can be given as
+.B max
+which means to choose the largest size that fits all on all current drives.
 
 .TP
 .BR --assume-clean