From: Benno Schulenberg Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 20:23:39 +0000 (+0200) Subject: docs: improve the description of --size in the man page of zramctl X-Git-Tag: v2.26-rc1~504 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=882be6261067b4642094f0ed796871601d526285;p=thirdparty%2Futil-linux.git docs: improve the description of --size in the man page of zramctl Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg --- diff --git a/sys-utils/zramctl.8 b/sys-utils/zramctl.8 index a30823388a..6f82ccf599 100644 --- a/sys-utils/zramctl.8 +++ b/sys-utils/zramctl.8 @@ -67,15 +67,10 @@ Reset the options of the specified zram device(s). Zram device settings can be changed only after a reset. .TP .BR \-s , " \-\-size " \fIsize -Force the zram driver to reread the size of the file associated with -the specified zram device. When not specified the -.I size -unit is bytes. The zram devices size is page size aligned. When -requested -.I size -does match with page size the device be large enough to hold the reqested -.I size -plus length to next page boundary. +Create a zram device of the specified \fIsize\fR. +Zram devices are aligned to memory pages; when the requested \fIsize\fR is +not a multiple of the page size, it will be rounded up to the next multiple. +When not otherwise specified, the unit of the \fIsize\fR parameter is bytes. .IP The \fIsize\fR argument may be followed by the multiplicative suffixes KiB (=1024), MiB (=1024*1024), and so on for GiB, TiB, PiB, EiB, ZiB and YiB (the "iB"