The following reply was made to PR docs/41089; it has been noted by GNATS. From: venture37 <[email protected]> To: [email protected], [email protected] 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-- _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
