Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 07:36:42 +0000 (UTC) From: Garrett Cooper <ngie@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r290259 - head/usr.sbin/makefs Message-ID: <201511020736.tA27agJq021424@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: ngie Date: Mon Nov 2 07:36:42 2015 New Revision: 290259 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/290259 Log: Sync makefs(8) content a bit with src/usr.sbin/makefs/makefs.8@1.53 Sections involving unimplemented filesystems (chfs, msdosfs, udf, v7fs) and options have been omitted. MFC after: 1 week Obtained from: NetBSD Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division Modified: head/usr.sbin/makefs/makefs.8 Modified: head/usr.sbin/makefs/makefs.8 ============================================================================== --- head/usr.sbin/makefs/makefs.8 Mon Nov 2 03:36:15 2015 (r290258) +++ head/usr.sbin/makefs/makefs.8 Mon Nov 2 07:36:42 2015 (r290259) @@ -44,10 +44,10 @@ .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm .Op Fl DxZ -.Op Fl B Ar byte-order +.Op Fl B Ar endian .Op Fl b Ar free-blocks .Op Fl d Ar debug-mask -.Op Fl F Ar specfile +.Op Fl F Ar mtree-specfile .Op Fl f Ar free-files .Op Fl M Ar minimum-size .Op Fl m Ar maximum-size @@ -69,9 +69,9 @@ from the directory tree .Ar directory or from the mtree manifest .Ar manifest . -If optional directory tree +If any optional directory trees are passed in the .Ar extra-directory -is passed, then the directory tree of each argument will be merged +arguments, then the directory tree of each argument will be merged into the .Ar directory or @@ -82,9 +82,9 @@ No special devices or privileges are req .Pp The options are as follows: .Bl -tag -width flag -.It Fl B Ar byte-order +.It Fl B Ar endian Set the byte order of the image to -.Ar byte-order . +.Ar endian . Valid byte orders are .Ql 4321 , .Ql big , @@ -114,9 +114,9 @@ Enable various levels of debugging, depe set in .Ar debug-mask . XXX: document these -.It Fl F Ar specfile +.It Fl F Ar mtree-specfile Use -.Ar specfile +.Ar mtree-specfile as an .Xr mtree 8 .Sq specfile @@ -174,13 +174,13 @@ Set the maximum size of the file system .Ar maximum-size . An error will be raised if the target file system needs to be larger than this to accommodate the provided directory tree. -.It Fl N Ar dbdir +.It Fl N Ar userdb-dir Use the user database text file .Pa master.passwd and group database text file .Pa group from -.Ar dbdir , +.Ar userdb-dir , rather than using the results from the system's .Xr getpwnam 3 and @@ -226,7 +226,9 @@ ISO 9660 file system. .It Fl x Exclude file system nodes not explicitly listed in the specfile. .It Fl Z -Create the image as a sparse file. +Create a sparse file for +.Sy ffs . +This is useful for virtual machine images. .El .Pp Where sizes are specified, a decimal number of bytes is expected. @@ -339,7 +341,7 @@ Load a generic boot image into the first .It Sy hard-disk-boot Boot image is a hard disk image. .It Sy keep-bad-images -Do not throw away images whose write was aborted due to an error. +Don't throw away images whose write was aborted due to an error. For debugging purposes. .It Sy label Label name of the image. @@ -372,11 +374,12 @@ The utility appeared in .Nx 1.6 . .Sh AUTHORS -.An Luke Mewburn Aq Mt lukem@NetBSD.org -(original program) -.An Daniel Watt -.An Walter Deignan -.An Ryan Gabrys -.An Alan Perez-Rathke +.An Luke Mewburn +.Aq lukem@NetBSD.org +(original program), +.An Daniel Watt , +.An Walter Deignan , +.An Ryan Gabrys , +.An Alan Perez-Rathke , .An Ram Vedam (cd9660 support)
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