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authorKarel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>2010-06-17 11:15:40 +0200
committerKarel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>2010-06-17 11:15:40 +0200
commitc4c20b3ad72197e1eee73bfbac6106ea29b3bfed (patch)
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downloadutil-linux-old-c4c20b3ad72197e1eee73bfbac6106ea29b3bfed.tar.gz
mkswap: add a note that -p is uncecessary
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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@@ -91,7 +91,9 @@ will refuse to erase the first block on a device with a partition table or on
whole disk (e.g. /dec/sda).
.TP
.BI \-p \ PSZ
-Specify the page size to use.
+Specify the page size in bytes to use. This option is usually unnecessary,
+.B mkswap
+reads the size from kernel.
.TP
.BI \-L \ label
Specify a label, to allow swapon by label.