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Fix the inconsistency between the code and the manual page of mkfs.xfs

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PATCH 1/1 Fix the inconsistency between the code and the manual page of mkfs.xfs

From: Alvin Zheng <[email protected]>

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 man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8 | 12 +-----------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 11 deletions(-)
man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8 +1 -11
index 4b8c78c..45d7a84 100644
@@ -115,9 +115,7 @@ When specifying parameters in units of sectors or filesystem blocks, the
 .B \-s
 option or the
 .B \-b
-option first needs to be added to the command line.
-Failure to specify the size of the units will result in illegal value errors
-when parameters are quantified in those units.
+option can be used to specify the size of the sector or block. If the size of the block or sector is not specified, the default size (block: 4KiB, sector: 512B) will be used.
 .PP
 Many feature options allow an optional argument of 0 or 1, to explicitly
 disable or enable the functionality.
@@ -136,10 +134,6 @@ The filesystem block size is specified with a
 in bytes. The default value is 4096 bytes (4 KiB), the minimum is 512, and the
 maximum is 65536 (64 KiB).
 .IP
-To specify any options on the command line in units of filesystem blocks, this
-option must be specified first so that the filesystem block size is
-applied consistently to all options.
-.IP
 Although
 .B mkfs.xfs
 will accept any of these values and create a valid filesystem,
@@ -894,10 +888,6 @@ is 512 bytes. The minimum value for sector size is
 .I sector_size
 must be a power of 2 size and cannot be made larger than the
 filesystem block size.
-.IP
-To specify any options on the command line in units of sectors, this
-option must be specified first so that the sector size is
-applied consistently to all options.
 .RE
 .TP
 .BI \-L " label"
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