HOWTO/manpage: update percentage explanation using '%'

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@@ -1095,8 +1095,8 @@ I/O type
        offset will be used. Data before the given offset will not be touched. This
        effectively caps the file size at `real_size - offset`. Can be combined with
        :option:`size` to constrain the start and end range of the I/O workload.
-       A percentage can be specified by the percentage number plus 1 with preceding '-'.
-       For example, -1 is parsed as 0%, -10 is parsed as 9%, -101 is parsed as 100%.
+       A percentage can be specified by a number between 1 and 100 followed by '%',
+       for example, ``offset=20%`` to specify 20%.
 
 .. option:: offset_increment=int