From d5be748341ec88e35c826b70152bf1e757653a3a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Rajnoha Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 15:20:12 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] man: lvcreate: try to be clearer about -W|--wipesignatures There was still some confusion report about -W|--wipesignatures lvcreate option so try to be even clearer. Hopefully, the last edit here. --- man/lvcreate.8.in | 13 +++++++------ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/man/lvcreate.8.in b/man/lvcreate.8.in index 1bc2a91f7..1cce0b6ae 100644 --- a/man/lvcreate.8.in +++ b/man/lvcreate.8.in @@ -720,16 +720,17 @@ device sizes (GiB), thin provisioning should be used for this case. .BR \-W | \-\-wipesignatures .RB { y | n } .br -Controls wiping of detected signatures on newly created Logical Volume. -If this option is not specified, then by default signature wiping is done -each time the zeroing ( -.BR \-Z | \-\-zero -) is done. This default behaviour +Controls detection and subsequent wiping of signatures on newly created +Logical Volume. There's a prompt for each signature detected to confirm +its wiping (unless \fB--yes\fP is used where LVM assumes 'yes' answer +for each prompt automatically). If this option is not specified, then by +default \fB-W\fP | \fB--wipesignatures y\fP is assumed each time the +zeroing is done (\fB\-Z\fP | \fB\-\-zero y\fP). This default behaviour can be controlled by \fB\%allocation/wipe_signatures_when_zeroing_new_lvs\fP setting found in .BR lvm.conf (5). .br -If blkid wiping is used \fBallocation/use_blkid_wiping\fP setting in +If blkid wiping is used (\fBallocation/use_blkid_wiping\fP setting in .BR lvm.conf (5)) and LVM2 is compiled with blkid wiping support, then \fBblkid\fP(8) library is used to detect the signatures (use \fBblkid \-k\fP command to list the signatures that are recognized). -- 2.43.5