docs/85867: dumpon.8 is missing crucial information

Mike Meyer mwm at mired.org
Thu Sep 8 12:40:15 UTC 2005


>Number:         85867
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       dumpon.8 is missing crucial information
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Sep 08 12:40:11 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Mike Meyer
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE i386
>Organization:
Meyer Consulting
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD bhuda.mired.org 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #9: Thu Aug 11 15:56:04 EDT 2005 mwm at bhuda.mired.org:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/BHUDA i386

	
>Description:

	The dumpon man page no longer specifies that the dump device
needs to be at least 64K bigger than physical memory.

	While the new information is in some ways "better", people
with systems that are exceptions to the "most" need to know how big
that header is.

>How-To-Repeat:

	"man dumpon". The old information can be found at:
	http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sbin/dumpon/dumpon.8.diff?r1=1.11.2.11&r2=1.11.2.12&f=h

>Fix:

Change the text from "additional header" to "additional 64Kb header".



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