Add information about the supported size suffixes to the documentation for
ndctl-create-namespace.  This prevents users from doing silly things like
$((32*1024*1024*1024)) on the command line when running ndctl commands.

Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <[email protected]>
---
 Documentation/ndctl-create-namespace.txt | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/ndctl-create-namespace.txt 
b/Documentation/ndctl-create-namespace.txt
index a2f5e5b..5b62b95 100644
--- a/Documentation/ndctl-create-namespace.txt
+++ b/Documentation/ndctl-create-namespace.txt
@@ -79,8 +79,10 @@ OPTIONS
 -s::
 --size=::
        For NVDIMM devices that support namespace labels, set the
-       namespace size.  Otherwise it defaults to the maximum size
-       specified by platform firmware.
+       namespace size in bytes.  Otherwise it defaults to the maximum
+       size specified by platform firmware.  This option supports the
+       suffixes "k" or "K" for KiB, "m" or "M" for MiB, "g" or "G" for
+       GiB and "t" or "T" for TiB.
 
 -e::
 --reconfig=::
-- 
2.7.4

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