HOWTO/manpage: update percentage explanation using '%'

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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH fio 1 "May 2017" "User Manual"
+.TH fio 1 "June 2017" "User Manual"
 .SH NAME
 fio \- flexible I/O tester
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Deprecated, use \-\-output-format instead to select multiple formats.
 Display version information and exit.
 .TP
 .BI \-\-terse\-version \fR=\fPversion
-Set terse version output format (default 3, or 2 or 4)
+Set terse version output format (default 3, or 2, 4, 5)
 .TP
 .B \-\-help
 Display usage information and exit.
@@ -911,11 +911,13 @@ If true, use buffered I/O.  This is the opposite of the \fBdirect\fR parameter.
 Default: true.
 .TP
 .BI offset \fR=\fPint
-Start I/O at the provided offset in the file, given as either a fixed size or a
-percentage. If a percentage is given, the next \fBblockalign\fR-ed 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 \fBsize\fR to
-constrain the start and end range of the I/O workload.
+Start I/O at the provided offset in the file, given as either a fixed size in
+bytes or a percentage. If a percentage is given, the next \fBblockalign\fR-ed
+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
+\fBsize\fR to constrain the start and end range of the I/O workload. A percentage
+can be specified by a number between 1 and 100 followed by '%', for example,
+offset=20% to specify 20%.
 .TP
 .BI offset_increment \fR=\fPint
 If this is provided, then the real offset becomes the
@@ -2161,10 +2163,11 @@ scripted use.
 A job description (if provided) follows on a new line.  Note that the first
 number in the line is the version number. If the output has to be changed
 for some reason, this number will be incremented by 1 to signify that
-change.  The fields are:
+change. Numbers in brackets (e.g. "[v3]") indicate which terse version
+introduced a field. The fields are:
 .P
 .RS
-.B terse version, fio version, jobname, groupid, error
+.B terse version, fio version [v3], jobname, groupid, error
 .P
 Read status:
 .RS
@@ -2188,7 +2191,11 @@ Total latency:
 .RE
 Bandwidth:
 .RS
-.B min, max, aggregate percentage of total, mean, standard deviation
+.B min, max, aggregate percentage of total, mean, standard deviation, number of samples [v5]
+.RE
+IOPS [v5]:
+.RS
+.B min, max, mean, standard deviation, number of samples
 .RE
 .RE
 .P
@@ -2214,10 +2221,19 @@ Total latency:
 .RE
 Bandwidth:
 .RS
-.B min, max, aggregate percentage of total, mean, standard deviation
+.B min, max, aggregate percentage of total, mean, standard deviation, number of samples [v5]
+.RE
+IOPS [v5]:
+.RS
+.B min, max, mean, standard deviation, number of samples
 .RE
 .RE
 .P
+Trim status [all but version 3]:
+.RS
+Similar to Read/Write status but for trims.
+.RE
+.P
 CPU usage:
 .RS
 .B user, system, context switches, major page faults, minor page faults
@@ -2240,7 +2256,7 @@ Milliseconds:
 .RE
 .RE
 .P
-Disk utilization (1 for each disk used):
+Disk utilization (1 for each disk used) [v3]:
 .RS
 .B name, read ios, write ios, read merges, write merges, read ticks, write ticks, read in-queue time, write in-queue time, disk utilization percentage
 .RE