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Date:      Thu, 15 May 2014 15:14:38 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-user@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r266134 - user/marcel/mkimg
Message-ID:  <201405151514.s4FFEckx043836@svn.freebsd.org>

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Author: marcel
Date: Thu May 15 15:14:37 2014
New Revision: 266134
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/266134

Log:
  Mention -f vmdk and the VMDK output format in the example section.

Modified:
  user/marcel/mkimg/mkimg.1

Modified: user/marcel/mkimg/mkimg.1
==============================================================================
--- user/marcel/mkimg/mkimg.1	Thu May 15 15:02:48 2014	(r266133)
+++ user/marcel/mkimg/mkimg.1	Thu May 15 15:14:37 2014	(r266134)
@@ -126,6 +126,14 @@ utility as follows:
 -p freebsd-ufs:=root-file-system.ufs -p freebsd-swap::1G \
 -o gpt.img
 .Pp
+The command line given above results in a raw image file.
+This is because no output format was given.
+To create a VMDK image for example, add the
+.Fl f Ar vmdk
+argument to the
+.Nm
+utility and name the output file accordingly.
+.Pp
 A nested partitioning scheme is created by running the
 .Nm
 utility twice.



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