From: Alasdair Kergon Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 14:08:09 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Document that sector size is always 512 bytes. [AJ] X-Git-Tag: v1_00_08~13 X-Git-Url: https://sourceware.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c1b5c9f1d1d02bee1c17b980f8e450a9abe8bfe4;p=dm.git Document that sector size is always 512 bytes. [AJ] --- diff --git a/man/dmsetup.8 b/man/dmsetup.8 index 724f11e..8f19e97 100644 --- a/man/dmsetup.8 +++ b/man/dmsetup.8 @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ dmsetup \- low level logical volume management .SH DESCRIPTION dmsetup manages logical devices that use the device-mapper driver. Devices are created by loading a table that specifies a target for -each sector in the logical device. +each sector (512 bytes) in the logical device. The first argument to dmsetup is a command. The second argument is the logical device name or uuid. @@ -165,6 +165,7 @@ Each line of the table specifies a single target and is of the form: logical_start_sector num_sectors target_type target_args .br .br + There are currently three simple target types available together with more complex optional ones that implement snapshots and mirrors.