Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 01:20:00 GMT From: venture37 <venture37@geeklan.co.uk> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/41089: pax(1) -B option does not mention interaction with -z option Message-ID: <201405260120.s4Q1K0Ek092518@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/41089; it has been noted by GNATS. From: venture37 <venture37@geeklan.co.uk> To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, areilly@bigpond.net.au Cc: Subject: Re: docs/41089: pax(1) -B option does not mention interaction with -z option Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 02:12:11 +0100 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------010202030606080206000603 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Attached diff adds proposed fix to pax(1). --------------010202030606080206000603 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; name="pax.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="pax.txt" Index: bin/pax/pax.1 =================================================================== --- bin/pax/pax.1 (revision 266021) +++ bin/pax/pax.1 (working copy) @@ -793,6 +793,12 @@ .Li x to indicate a product. .Pp +Note that the specified size is for the pax image itself. If the +.Fl z +option is also used, the resulting file may contain fewer +.Ar bytes , +according to the compressibility of the archive contents. +.Pp .Em Warning : Only use this option when writing an archive to a device which supports an end of file read condition based on last (or largest) write offset --------------010202030606080206000603--
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