doc: stop saying backslashes need escaping

[fio.git] / HOWTO

diff --git a/HOWTO b/HOWTO
index 41a667af4406a17b215952faa7ef3511bc0bb801..7895eba4a0fce0b4ea894dd3a2729c936aef6bf0 100644 (file)
--- a/HOWTO
+++ b/HOWTO
@@ -765,8 +765,8 @@ Target file/device
        `filename` semantic (which generates a file for each clone if not
        specified, but lets all clones use the same file if set).
 
-       See the :option:`filename` option for information on how to escape "``:``" and
-       "``\``" characters within the directory path itself.
+       See the :option:`filename` option for information on how to escape "``:``"
+       characters within the directory path itself.
 
        Note: To control the directory fio will use for internal state files
        use :option:`--aux-path`.
@@ -785,10 +785,10 @@ Target file/device
        by this option will be :option:`size` divided by number of files unless an
        explicit size is specified by :option:`filesize`.
 
-       Each colon and backslash in the wanted path must be escaped with a ``\``
+       Each colon in the wanted path must be escaped with a ``\``
        character.  For instance, if the path is :file:`/dev/dsk/foo@3,0:c` then you
        would use ``filename=/dev/dsk/foo@3,0\:c`` and if the path is
-       :file:`F:\\filename` then you would use ``filename=F\:\\filename``.
+       :file:`F:\\filename` then you would use ``filename=F\:\filename``.
 
        On Windows, disk devices are accessed as :file:`\\\\.\\PhysicalDrive0` for
        the first device, :file:`\\\\.\\PhysicalDrive1` for the second etc.
@@ -2564,7 +2564,7 @@ I/O replay
        (``blkparse <device> -o /dev/null -d file_for_fio.bin``).
        You can specify a number of files by separating the names with a ':'
        character. See the :option:`filename` option for information on how to
-       escape ':' and '\' characters within the file names. These files will
+       escape ':' characters within the file names. These files will
        be sequentially assigned to job clones created by :option:`numjobs`.
 
 .. option:: read_iolog_chunked=bool