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 _______________________________________________ Linux-nvdimm mailing list [email protected] https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-nvdimm
