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authorDavid Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>2017-01-16 16:26:14 -0600
committerDavid Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>2017-02-10 16:45:33 -0600
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man: lvmthin updates
Some minor changes to some of the command syntaxes to use more standard forms.
-rw-r--r--man/lvmthin.7.in21
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/man/lvmthin.7.in b/man/lvmthin.7.in
index ce8697489..714233e41 100644
--- a/man/lvmthin.7.in
+++ b/man/lvmthin.7.in
@@ -157,17 +157,17 @@ The --thinpool argument specifies which thin pool will
contain the ThinLV.
.fi
-.B lvcreate \-n ThinLV \-V VirtualSize \-\-thinpool VG/ThinPoolLV
+.B lvcreate \-n ThinLV \-V VirtualSize \-\-thinpool ThinPoolLV VG
.I Example
.br
Create a thin LV in a thin pool:
.br
-# lvcreate \-n thin1 \-V 1T \-\-thinpool vg/pool0
+# lvcreate \-n thin1 \-V 1T \-\-thinpool pool0 vg
Create another thin LV in the same thin pool:
.br
-# lvcreate \-n thin2 \-V 1T \-\-thinpool vg/pool0
+# lvcreate \-n thin2 \-V 1T \-\-thinpool pool0 vg
# lvs vg/thin1 vg/thin2
LV VG Attr LSize Pool Origin Data%
@@ -184,9 +184,9 @@ when creating a thin snapshot.
.br
A size argument will cause an old COW snapshot to be created.
-.B lvcreate \-n SnapLV \-s VG/ThinLV
+.B lvcreate \-n SnapLV \-\-snapshot VG/ThinLV
.br
-.B lvcreate \-n SnapLV \-s VG/PrevSnapLV
+.B lvcreate \-n SnapLV \-\-snapshot VG/PrevSnapLV
.I Example
.br
@@ -286,15 +286,12 @@ The fully specified syntax for creating a thin pool LV shown above is:
.B lvconvert \-\-type thin-pool \-\-poolmetadata VG/ThinMetaLV VG/ThinDataLV
-An existing LV is converted to a thin pool by changing its type to
-thin-pool. An alternate syntax may be used for the same operation:
+An alternate syntax may be used for the same operation:
.B lvconvert \-\-thinpool VG/ThinDataLV \-\-poolmetadata VG/ThinMetaLV
-The thin-pool type is inferred by lvm; the --thinpool option is not an
-alias for --type thin-pool. The use of the --thinpool option here is
-different from the use of the --thinpool option when creating a thin LV,
-where it specifies the pool in which the thin LV is created.
+The thin-pool type is inferred by lvm; the \-\-thinpool option is not an
+alias for \-\-type thin\-pool.
.SS Automatic pool metadata LV
@@ -1234,7 +1231,7 @@ and creates a thin LV in the new pool.
.br
\-V VirtualSize specifies the virtual size of the thin LV.
-.B lvcreate \-V VirtualSize \-L LargeSize
+.B lvcreate \-\-type thin \-V VirtualSize \-L LargeSize
.RS
.B \-n ThinLV \-\-thinpool VG/ThinPoolLV
.RE