From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:59:42 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: mke2fs.8.in: clarify the sign of a block-size constraint.
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mke2fs.8.in: clarify the sign of a block-size constraint.

This bit of the mke2fs manpage is slightly confusing:

-b block-size
    Specify the size of blocks in bytes. <snip>
    If block-size is negative, then mke2fs will use heuristics
    to determine the appropriate block size, with the constraint
    that the block size will be at least block-size bytes.

because it sounds like the block size will be at least a negative
number.  Clarify just what the negative sign means.

Reported-by: Chris Frost <chris@frostnet.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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diff --git a/misc/mke2fs.8.in b/misc/mke2fs.8.in
index 45a99f8f3..b46e7e21c 100644
--- a/misc/mke2fs.8.in
+++ b/misc/mke2fs.8.in
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ the expected usage of the filesystem (see the
 .B \-T
 option).  If
 .I block-size
-is negative, then
+is preceded by a negative sign ('-'), then
 .B mke2fs
 will use heuristics to determine the
 appropriate block size, with the constraint that the block size will be