From 4904acd5c4ca5b4940fe198275c2afd339e623b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeff Moyer Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 14:20:28 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] fio.1 - escape the escape character so it shows up Hi, Jens, In the filename= text, the escape character gets eaten. This fixes it for me. Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- fio.1 | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fio.1 b/fio.1 index 363c806f..1a04e6c0 100644 --- a/fio.1 +++ b/fio.1 @@ -182,8 +182,8 @@ set. 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). If the wanted filename does need to include a colon, then -escape that with a '\' character. For instance, if the filename is -"/dev/dsk/foo@3,0:c", then you would use filename="/dev/dsk/foo@3,0\:c". +escape that with a '\\' character. For instance, if the filename is +"/dev/dsk/foo@3,0:c", then you would use filename="/dev/dsk/foo@3,0\\:c". .TP .BI filename_format \fR=\fPstr If sharing multiple files between jobs, it is usually necessary to have -- 2.25.1