docs/41089: pax(1) -B option does not mention interaction with -z option
venture37
venture37 at geeklan.co.uk
Mon May 26 01:20:01 UTC 2014
The following reply was made to PR docs/41089; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: venture37 <venture37 at geeklan.co.uk>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, areilly at bigpond.net.au
Cc:
Subject: Re: docs/41089: pax(1) -B option does not mention interaction with
-z option
Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 02:12:11 +0100
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Attached diff adds proposed fix to pax(1).
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--- bin/pax/pax.1 (revision 266021)
+++ bin/pax/pax.1 (working copy)
@@ -793,6 +793,12 @@
.Li x
to indicate a product.
.Pp
+Note that the specified size is for the pax image itself. If the
+.Fl z
+option is also used, the resulting file may contain fewer
+.Ar bytes ,
+according to the compressibility of the archive contents.
+.Pp
.Em Warning :
Only use this option when writing an archive to a device which supports
an end of file read condition based on last (or largest) write offset
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