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Date:      Sat, 9 Sep 2017 02:28:22 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r323341 - head/share/man/man5
Message-ID:  <201709090228.v892SMk1061504@repo.freebsd.org>

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Author: ian
Date: Sat Sep  9 02:28:21 2017
New Revision: 323341
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/323341

Log:
  Clarify that the size option is in bytes by default, but also accepts the
  usual SI suffixes.

Modified:
  head/share/man/man5/tmpfs.5

Modified: head/share/man/man5/tmpfs.5
==============================================================================
--- head/share/man/man5/tmpfs.5	Sat Sep  9 02:19:44 2017	(r323340)
+++ head/share/man/man5/tmpfs.5	Sat Sep  9 02:28:21 2017	(r323341)
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd January 20, 2017
+.Dd September 8, 2017
 .Dt TMPFS 5
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -131,7 +131,9 @@ the file system size, which can be limited with the
 .Cm size
 option.
 .It Cm size
-Specifies the total file system size in bytes.
+Specifies the total file system size in bytes, unless suffixed
+with one of k, m, g, t, or p, which denote byte, kilobyte,
+megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte and petabyte respectively.
 If zero (the default) or a value larger than SIZE_MAX - PAGE_SIZE
 is given, the available amount of memory (including
 main memory and swap space) will be used.



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