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| author | rsc <devnull@localhost> | 2005-07-24 13:37:47 +0000 |
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| committer | rsc <devnull@localhost> | 2005-07-24 13:37:47 +0000 |
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diff --git a/man/man8/venti.8 b/man/man8/venti.8 index 06e4ee2c..4a41073a 100644 --- a/man/man8/venti.8 +++ b/man/man8/venti.8 @@ -330,6 +330,7 @@ is an arena partition, formatted using .I File is an index section, formatted using .IR fmtisect . +.PD .PP After formatting a venti system using .IR fmtindex , @@ -381,6 +382,28 @@ or .LR g (case-insensitive) to indicate kilobytes, megabytes, or gigabytes respectively. +.PP +The +.I file +name in the configuration lines above can be of the form +.IB file : lo - hi +to specify a range of the file. +.I Lo +and +.I hi +are specified in bytes but can have the usual +.BI k , +.BI m , +or +.B g +suffixes. +Either +.I lo +or +.I hi +may be omitted. +This notation eliminates the need to +partition raw disks on non-Plan 9 systems. .SS Command Line Many of the options to Venti duplicate parameters that can be specified in the configuration file. |