From: André Paiusco <2374887+Paiusco@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:22:32 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: man: coredump: KeepFree/MaxUse clarification of default values
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man: coredump: KeepFree/MaxUse clarification of default values

(cherry picked from commit 1e2c2a04fc03b7a9c4cf0c4a10a3a3f30917cdf3)
(cherry picked from commit 414be31cdfe092181dab676401c1c8ed64f2804f)
(cherry picked from commit b6f82d530fed26f5a23beb1fc5799a9cd2709b17)
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diff --git a/man/coredump.conf.xml b/man/coredump.conf.xml
index 0f69891d777..0225f6406ab 100644
--- a/man/coredump.conf.xml
+++ b/man/coredump.conf.xml
@@ -168,9 +168,10 @@
         <option>MaxUse=</option> makes
         sure that old core dumps are removed as soon as the total disk
         space taken up by core dumps grows beyond this limit (defaults
-        to 10% of the total disk size). <option>KeepFree=</option>
-        controls how much disk space to keep free at least (defaults
-        to 15% of the total disk size). Note that the disk space used
+        to 10% of the total disk size, capped at 4GiB, minimum 1MiB). 
+        <option>KeepFree=</option> controls how much disk space to keep
+        free at least (defaults to 15% of the total disk size, limited 
+        to a maximum of 4GiB). Note that the disk space used
         by core dumps might temporarily exceed these limits while
         core dumps are processed. Note that old core dumps are also
         removed based on time via