From 111fbd74f67575c158d9be5363825aab8be50a0a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hanna Reitz Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2022 14:59:08 +0100 Subject: qemu-img: Unify [-b [-F]] documentation qemu-img convert documents the backing file and backing format options as follows: [-B backing_file [-F backing_fmt]] whereas qemu-img create has this: [-b backing_file] [-F backing_fmt] That is, for convert, we document that -F cannot be given without -B, while for create, way say that they are independent. Indeed, it is technically possible to give -F without -b, because it is left to the block driver to decide whether this is an error or not, so sometimes it is: $ qemu-img create -f qed -F qed test.qed 64M Formatting 'test.qed', fmt=qed size=67108864 backing_fmt=qed [...] And sometimes it is not: $ qemu-img create -f qcow2 -F qcow2 test.qcow2 64M Formatting 'test.qcow2', fmt=qcow2 cluster_size=65536 [...] qemu-img: test.qcow2: Backing format cannot be used without backing file Generally, it does not make much sense, though, and users should only give -F with -b, so document it that way, as we have already done for qemu-img convert (commit 1899bf47375ad40555dcdff12ba49b4b8b82df38). Reported-by: Tingting Mao Signed-off-by: Hanna Reitz Message-Id: <20220131135908.32393-1-hreitz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf --- docs/tools/qemu-img.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'docs/tools') diff --git a/docs/tools/qemu-img.rst b/docs/tools/qemu-img.rst index d663dd92bd..8885ea11cf 100644 --- a/docs/tools/qemu-img.rst +++ b/docs/tools/qemu-img.rst @@ -463,7 +463,7 @@ Command description: ``--skip-broken-bitmaps`` is also specified to copy only the consistent bitmaps. -.. option:: create [--object OBJECTDEF] [-q] [-f FMT] [-b BACKING_FILE] [-F BACKING_FMT] [-u] [-o OPTIONS] FILENAME [SIZE] +.. option:: create [--object OBJECTDEF] [-q] [-f FMT] [-b BACKING_FILE [-F BACKING_FMT]] [-u] [-o OPTIONS] FILENAME [SIZE] Create the new disk image *FILENAME* of size *SIZE* and format *FMT*. Depending on the file format, you can add one or more *OPTIONS* -- cgit v1.2.3