docs/41089: pax(1) -B option does not mention interaction with -z option

venture37 venture37 at geeklan.co.uk
Mon May 26 01:20:01 UTC 2014


The following reply was made to PR docs/41089; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: venture37 <venture37 at geeklan.co.uk>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, areilly at bigpond.net.au
Cc:  
Subject: Re: docs/41089: pax(1) -B option does not mention interaction with
 -z option
Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 02:12:11 +0100

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 Attached diff adds proposed fix to pax(1).
 
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 --- bin/pax/pax.1	(revision 266021)
 +++ bin/pax/pax.1	(working copy)
 @@ -793,6 +793,12 @@
  .Li x
  to indicate a product.
  .Pp
 +Note that the specified size is for the pax image itself. If the 
 +.Fl z
 +option is also used, the resulting file may contain fewer 
 +.Ar bytes ,
 +according to the compressibility of the archive contents.
 +.Pp
  .Em Warning :
  Only use this option when writing an archive to a device which supports
  an end of file read condition based on last (or largest) write offset
 
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