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btrfs-progs: update man page for btrfs filesystem label

Message ID 1371505523-28674-1-git-send-email-guangyu.sun@oracle.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
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Guangyu Sun June 17, 2013, 9:45 p.m. UTC 
btrfs filesystem label can work on a mounted filesystem, also on a
multi-devices filesystem. And the restriction of label name is
changed, too. The man page should be updated accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Guangyu Sun <guangyu.sun@oracle.com>
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 man/btrfs.8.in |   17 ++++-------------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/man/btrfs.8.in b/man/btrfs.8.in
index af7df4d..1da4ff1 100644
--- a/man/btrfs.8.in
+++ b/man/btrfs.8.in
@@ -263,22 +263,13 @@  it with the new desired size.  When recreating the partition make sure to use
 the same starting disk cylinder as before.
 .TP
 
-\fBfilesystem label\fP\fI <dev> [newlabel]\fP
-Show or update the label of a filesystem. \fI<dev>\fR is used to identify the
-filesystem. 
+\fBfilesystem label\fP\fI [<device>|<mountpoint>] [newlabel]\fP
+Show or update the label of a filesystem. \fI[<device>|<mountpoint>]\fR is used
+to identify the filesystem. 
 If a \fInewlabel\fR optional argument is passed, the label is changed. The
 following constraints exist for a label:
 .IP
-- the maximum allowable length shall be less or equal than 256 chars
-.IP
-- the label shall not  contain the '/' or '\\' characters.
-
-NOTE: Currently there are the following limitations:
-.IP
-- the filesystem has to be unmounted
-.IP
-- the filesystem should not have more than one device.
-.TP
+- the maximum allowable length shall be less than 256 chars
 
 \fBfilesystem show\fR [--all-devices|<uuid>|<label>]\fR
 Show the btrfs filesystem with some additional info. If no \fIUUID\fP or