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authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2021-08-15 19:13:02 -0400
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2021-08-15 19:36:06 -0400
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Change "filesystem" to "file system" in the man pages
To improve consistency, use "file system" in all of the man pages in preference over "filesystem". Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Diffstat (limited to 'resize')
-rw-r--r--resize/resize2fs.8.in34
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/resize/resize2fs.8.in b/resize/resize2fs.8.in
index d28410ad..528b6269 100644
--- a/resize/resize2fs.8.in
+++ b/resize/resize2fs.8.in
@@ -32,18 +32,18 @@ The
program will resize ext2, ext3, or ext4 file systems. It can be used to
enlarge or shrink an unmounted file system located on
.IR device .
-If the filesystem is mounted, it can be used to expand the size of the
-mounted filesystem, assuming the kernel and the file system supports
+If the file system is mounted, it can be used to expand the size of the
+mounted file system, assuming the kernel and the file system supports
on-line resizing. (Modern Linux 2.6 kernels will support on-line resize
for file systems mounted using ext3 and ext4; ext3 file systems will
require the use of file systems with the resize_inode feature enabled.)
.PP
The
.I size
-parameter specifies the requested new size of the filesystem.
+parameter specifies the requested new size of the file system.
If no units are specified, the units of the
.I size
-parameter shall be the filesystem blocksize of the filesystem.
+parameter shall be the file system blocksize of the file system.
Optionally, the
.I size
parameter may be suffixed by one of the following units
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ designators: 'K', 'M', 'G', 'T' (either upper-case or lower-case) or 's'
for power-of-two kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes or 512 byte
sectors respectively. The
.I size
-of the filesystem may never be larger than the size of the partition.
+of the file system may never be larger than the size of the partition.
If
.I size
parameter is not specified, it will default to the size of the partition.
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ parameter is not specified, it will default to the size of the partition.
The
.B resize2fs
program does not manipulate the size of partitions. If you wish to enlarge
-a filesystem, you must make sure you can expand the size of the
+a file system, you must make sure you can expand the size of the
underlying partition first. This can be done using
.BR fdisk (8)
by deleting the partition and recreating it with a larger size or using
@@ -69,19 +69,19 @@ if you're using the logical volume manager
When
recreating the partition, make sure you create it with the same starting
disk cylinder as before! Otherwise, the resize operation will
-certainly not work, and you may lose your entire filesystem.
+certainly not work, and you may lose your entire file system.
After running
.BR fdisk (8),
-run resize2fs to resize the ext2 filesystem
+run resize2fs to resize the ext2 file system
to use all of the space in the newly enlarged partition.
.PP
If you wish to shrink an ext2 partition, first use
.B resize2fs
-to shrink the size of filesystem. Then you may use
+to shrink the size of file system. Then you may use
.BR fdisk (8)
to shrink the size of the partition. When shrinking the size of
the partition, make sure you do not make it smaller than the new size
-of the ext2 filesystem!
+of the ext2 file system!
.PP
The
.B \-b
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ and
options enable and disable the 64bit feature, respectively. The resize2fs
program will, of course, take care of resizing the block group descriptors
and moving other data blocks out of the way, as needed. It is not possible
-to resize the filesystem concurrent with changing the 64bit status.
+to resize the file system concurrent with changing the 64bit status.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-b
@@ -112,14 +112,14 @@ from the following list:
.br
16 \-\ Print timing information
.br
- 32 \-\ Debug minimum filesystem size (\-M) calculation
+ 32 \-\ Debug minimum file system size (\-M) calculation
.TP
.B \-f
-Forces resize2fs to proceed with the filesystem resize operation, overriding
+Forces resize2fs to proceed with the file system resize operation, overriding
some safety checks which resize2fs normally enforces.
.TP
.B \-F
-Flush the filesystem device's buffer caches before beginning. Only
+Flush the file system device's buffer caches before beginning. Only
really useful for doing
.B resize2fs
time trials.
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ Turns off the 64bit feature and frees blocks that are no longer in use.
The
.B resize2fs
program will heuristically determine the RAID stride that was specified
-when the filesystem was created. This option allows the user to
+when the file system was created. This option allows the user to
explicitly specify a RAID stride setting to be used by resize2fs instead.
.TP
.BI \-z " undo_file"
@@ -162,8 +162,8 @@ resize2fs-\fIdevice\fR.e2undo in the directory specified via the
WARNING: The undo file cannot be used to recover from a power or system crash.
.SH KNOWN BUGS
-The minimum size of the filesystem as estimated by resize2fs may be
-incorrect, especially for filesystems with 1k and 2k blocksizes.
+The minimum size of the file system as estimated by resize2fs may be
+incorrect, especially for file systems with 1k and 2k blocksizes.
.SH AUTHOR
.B resize2fs
was written by Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>.