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authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2004-03-08 14:18:56 -0500
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2004-03-08 14:18:56 -0500
commit8ac59297e3bd2b0c7c25032c44b296e144b286ad (patch)
tree1e37bc22b6523574bc2687d0254b80b66f93b70b /misc/e2image.8.in
parent2c5cfbcb99f70d90f8e679bd2994b263ca6d11d6 (diff)
downloade2fsprogs-8ac59297e3bd2b0c7c25032c44b296e144b286ad.tar.gz
e2image.8.in: Update manpage to detail that writing to stdout is
currently only supported when writing a raw image dump. (Addresses Debian bug #236383)
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diff --git a/misc/e2image.8.in b/misc/e2image.8.in
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--- a/misc/e2image.8.in
+++ b/misc/e2image.8.in
@@ -34,7 +34,16 @@ If
.I image-file
is -, then the output of
.B e2image
-will be sent to standard output.
+will be sent to standard output, so that the output can be piped to
+another program, such as
+.BR gzip (1).
+(Note that is currently only supported when
+creating a raw image file using the
+.B \-r
+option, since the process of creating a normal image file currently
+requires random-access access to the file, which can not be done using a
+pipe. This restriction will hopefully be lifted in a future version of
+.BR e2image .)
.PP
The
.B \-r