On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 07:01:56PM +0300, Vadim Zhukov wrote: > Index: newfs.8 > =================================================================== > RCS file: /cvs/src/sbin/newfs/newfs.8,v > retrieving revision 1.68 > diff -u -p -r1.68 newfs.8 > --- newfs.8 21 Mar 2010 07:51:23 -0000 1.68 > +++ newfs.8 18 Jan 2011 15:47:45 -0000 > @@ -218,6 +218,13 @@ With this option, > will not print extraneous information like superblock backups. > .It Fl S Ar sector-size > The size of a sector in bytes (almost always 512). > +Alternatively > +.Ar sector-size > +may instead use a multiplier, as documented in > +.Xr scan_scaled 3 . > +.Ar sector-size > +should be 512 or a multiple of it because the kernel operates > +512\-byte blocks internally.
just to tweak a little, i'd suggest: .Ar sector-size should be a multiple of 512, since that is how the kernel works internally. that "since that..." may need tweaked if it's not exactly correct. > A sector is the smallest addressable unit on the physical device. > Changing this is useful only when using > .Nm > @@ -227,14 +234,19 @@ created (for example on a write-once dis > Note that changing this > from its default will make it impossible for > .Xr fsck 8 > -to find the alternate superblocks if the standard superblock is > -lost. > +to find the alternate superblocks automatically if the standard > +superblock is lost. > .It Fl s Ar size > -The size of the file system in sectors. > -This value is multiplied by the number of 512\-byte blocks in a sector > -to yield the size of the file system in 512\-byte blocks, which is the value > -used by the kernel. > -The maximum size of an FFS file system is 2,147,483,647 (2^31 \- 1) of these > +The size of the file system in sectors (see > +.Fl S ) . > +Alternatively > +.Ar size > +may instead use a multiplier, as documented in > +.Xr scan_scaled 3 , > +to specify size in bytes; in this case s/size/a size/ > +.Ar size > +is rounded up to the next sector boundary. > +The maximum size of an FFS file system is 2,147,483,647 (2^31 \- 1) of > 512\-byte blocks, slightly less than 1 TB. > FFS2 file systems can be as large as 64 PB. > Note however that for otherwise this reads ok to me. jmc