From: Sitsofe Wheeler Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2018 19:58:56 +0000 (+0100) Subject: man: fix missing/too many backslashes X-Git-Tag: fio-3.9~39^2 X-Git-Url: https://git.kernel.dk/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ffc90a44f58cb0eaef249b8e85241441d7faa214;p=fio.git man: fix missing/too many backslashes When viewing the man page some backslashes were AWOL whereas in other places there were too many so fix them all. Signed-off-by: Sitsofe Wheeler --- diff --git a/fio.1 b/fio.1 index e465771c..0c604a6a 100644 --- a/fio.1 +++ b/fio.1 @@ -528,7 +528,7 @@ set fio will use the first listed directory, and thereby matching the specified, but lets all clones use the same file if set). .RS .P -See the \fBfilename\fR option for information on how to escape ':' and '\' +See the \fBfilename\fR option for information on how to escape ':' and '\\' characters within the directory path itself. .P Note: To control the directory fio will use for internal state files @@ -549,13 +549,13 @@ by this option will be \fBsize\fR divided by number of files unless an explicit size is specified by \fBfilesize\fR. .RS .P -Each colon and backslash in the wanted path must be escaped with a '\' +Each colon and backslash in the wanted path must be escaped with a '\\' character. For instance, if the path is `/dev/dsk/foo@3,0:c' then you would use `filename=/dev/dsk/foo@3,0\\:c' and if the path is -`F:\\\\filename' then you would use `filename=F\\:\\\\filename'. +`F:\\filename' then you would use `filename=F\\:\\\\filename'. .P -On Windows, disk devices are accessed as `\\\\\\\\.\\\\PhysicalDrive0' for -the first device, `\\\\\\\\.\\\\PhysicalDrive1' for the second etc. +On Windows, disk devices are accessed as `\\\\.\\PhysicalDrive0' for +the first device, `\\\\.\\PhysicalDrive1' for the second etc. Note: Windows and FreeBSD prevent write access to areas of the disk containing in\-use data (e.g. filesystems). .P