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author | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2004-03-08 14:18:56 -0500 |
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committer | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2004-03-08 14:18:56 -0500 |
commit | 8ac59297e3bd2b0c7c25032c44b296e144b286ad (patch) | |
tree | 1e37bc22b6523574bc2687d0254b80b66f93b70b /misc/e2image.8.in | |
parent | 2c5cfbcb99f70d90f8e679bd2994b263ca6d11d6 (diff) | |
download | e2fsprogs-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)
Diffstat (limited to 'misc/e2image.8.in')
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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/misc/e2image.8.in b/misc/e2image.8.in index f66b99b4..500d1f9d 100644 --- 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 |