[Toybox] [PATCH] Clarify fallocate help text.

[enh]

(i've no idea what the right way to educate users is, but this at
least starts the conversation...)

On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 3:05 PM, enh <enh at google.com> wrote:
> -l isn't optional, and fallocate accepts the same suffixes as truncate.
>
> (As do many other commands. We might prefer to just *not* document
> this anyway and have to teach people that toybox [mostly] accepts
> the same set of suffixes everywhere. dd is a place where the suffixes
> differ, but the fix there might also be to make atollx support the
> whole dd set.)
>
> I did watch someone work out 3221225472 so they could supply it as an
> argument to fallocate, though. A half-way solution might be to always
> have terminology like "-l New length (accepts usual suffixes)", rather
> than explicitly write them out? (We're already not documenting that
> 2K==2k, and if we do in future accept the full dd set everywhere,
> that's two lines of help in a lot of commands.)
>
> Bug: 31638516
> ---
>  toys/other/fallocate.c | 6 +++++-
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)



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