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-rw-r--r--misc/mke2fs.8.in7
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/misc/ChangeLog b/misc/ChangeLog
index 82e33b4f..62f11c82 100644
--- a/misc/ChangeLog
+++ b/misc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
2005-09-24 Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
+ * mke2fs.8.in: Fix mke2fs man page to properly document the fact
+ that mke2fs -L takes an argument. (Addresses Debian Bug
+ #322188)
+
* badblocks.c: Add extra spaces when printing the "done" message
to clear out the block number to fix a display corruption
when the -s option is used to display the progress of the
diff --git a/misc/mke2fs.8.in b/misc/mke2fs.8.in
index 1b1bb677..51e07ed0 100644
--- a/misc/mke2fs.8.in
+++ b/misc/mke2fs.8.in
@@ -290,8 +290,11 @@ will automatically pass the correct parameters to the
.B badblocks
program.
.TP
-.B \-L
-Set the volume label for the filesystem.
+.BI \-L " new-volume-label"
+Set the volume label for the filesystem to
+.IR new-volume-label .
+The maximum length of the
+volume label is 16 bytes.
.TP
.BI \-m " reserved-blocks-percentage"
Specify the percentage of the filesystem blocks reserved for