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author | ed <ed@FreeBSD.org> | 2009-04-11 15:03:44 +0000 |
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committer | ed <ed@FreeBSD.org> | 2009-04-11 15:03:44 +0000 |
commit | ef9b21ff5adcc05064ee60b8e8e31944c5ef82c3 (patch) | |
tree | 8dbe0232e4f8766ed418c2a575c5ab7a6de719bb /sbin | |
parent | 9f29dae19863c273e4fd7e940dde3fc93339cdb5 (diff) | |
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Update documentation (forgotten in r190929).
Submitted by: Christoph Mallon <christoph mallon gmx de>
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-rw-r--r-- | sbin/newfs_msdos/newfs_msdos.8 | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/newfs_msdos/newfs_msdos.8 b/sbin/newfs_msdos/newfs_msdos.8 index a48cf70..ded8137 100644 --- a/sbin/newfs_msdos/newfs_msdos.8 +++ b/sbin/newfs_msdos/newfs_msdos.8 @@ -96,10 +96,11 @@ Get bootstrap from file. Create the image file with the specified size. A suffix character appended to the size is interpreted as for the .Fl @ -option. The file is created by truncating any existing file with the -same name, seeking just before the required size and writing -a single 0 byte. As a consequence, the space occupied on disk -may be smaller than the size specified as a parameter. +option. +The file is created by truncating any existing file with the same name and +resizing it to the requested size. +If the file system supports sparse files, the space occupied on disk may be +smaller than the size specified as parameter. .It Fl F Ar FAT-type FAT type (one of 12, 16, or 32). .It Fl I Ar volid |