From: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:09:06 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: docs: mkswap.8: recommend fallocate(1)
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docs: mkswap.8: recommend fallocate(1)

There is no reason why fallocate(1) should not be preferred instead of
'dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile' with it's cumbersome size spec.

Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/disk-utils/mkswap.8 b/disk-utils/mkswap.8
index 219c49f742..6435dd6aee 100644
--- a/disk-utils/mkswap.8
+++ b/disk-utils/mkswap.8
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ e.g. using a command like
 
 .nf
 .RS
-# dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1024 count=65536
+# fallocate --length 8GiB swapfile
 .RE
 .fi