| Message ID | 20170904064110.25951-6-quwenruo.btrfs@gmx.com (mailing list archive) |
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| State | New, archived |
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Qu Wenruo posted on Mon, 04 Sep 2017 15:41:10 +0900 as excerpted: > +NOTE: Result btrfs will be shrink to it minimal size, exceeding space will not > +be accessible unless resized. s/exceeding/additional/ (Exceeding could be used if reworded, but the results I came up with were much less concise than the above with the single substitution, so...)
diff --git a/Documentation/mkfs.btrfs.asciidoc b/Documentation/mkfs.btrfs.asciidoc index d53d9e26..8977761f 100644 --- a/Documentation/mkfs.btrfs.asciidoc +++ b/Documentation/mkfs.btrfs.asciidoc @@ -106,6 +106,9 @@ Please see the mount option 'discard' for that in `btrfs`(5). *-r|--rootdir <rootdir>*:: Populate the toplevel subvolume with files from 'rootdir'. This does not require root permissions and does not mount the filesystem. ++ +NOTE: Result btrfs will be shrink to it minimal size, exceeding space will not +be accessible unless resized. *-O|--features <feature1>[,<feature2>...]*:: A list of filesystem features turned on at mkfs time. Not all features are
Original --rootdir parameter will shrink the filesystem to its minimal size, which is quite confusing for some users. Add extra note for this behavior. Reported-by: Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijack@libero.it> Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo.btrfs@gmx.com> --- Documentation/mkfs.btrfs.asciidoc | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)