X-Git-Url: https://git.kernel.dk/?p=fio.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=fio.1;h=cf5dd853dda1b2f0cac3d7ab8776bf5b2ed7cf00;hp=a60863f62418e5bd778eff81eb366d21d82ecdb6;hb=3b803fe15d55a48b9fd269d464abd53b9a457661;hpb=8d853d0bbf4487af9445f7253c1951970ce75200 diff --git a/fio.1 b/fio.1 index a60863f6..cf5dd853 100644 --- a/fio.1 +++ b/fio.1 @@ -536,7 +536,7 @@ 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 ':' characters within the directory path itself. .P Note: To control the directory fio will use for internal state files @@ -557,10 +557,10 @@ 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 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. @@ -2277,7 +2277,7 @@ to replay a workload captured by blktrace. See replay, the file needs to be turned into a blkparse binary data file first (`blkparse \-o /dev/null \-d file_for_fio.bin'). You can specify a number of files by separating the names with a ':' character. -See the \fBfilename\fR option for information on how to escape ':' and '\' +See the \fBfilename\fR option for information on how to escape ':' characters within the file names. These files will be sequentially assigned to job clones created by \fBnumjobs\fR. .TP