From: millert <millert@openbsd.org>
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 03:58:26 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Note that newfs now contains fsirand(8) functionality.
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Note that newfs now contains fsirand(8) functionality.
---

diff --git a/sbin/fsirand/fsirand.8 b/sbin/fsirand/fsirand.8
index cc8b7257b7a..94a02e36c07 100644
--- a/sbin/fsirand/fsirand.8
+++ b/sbin/fsirand/fsirand.8
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 .\" OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF
 .\" ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.\"	$OpenBSD: fsirand.8,v 1.5 1997/02/09 01:10:16 millert Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: fsirand.8,v 1.6 1997/02/23 03:58:26 millert Exp $
 .\"
 .Dd January 25, 1997
 .Dt FSIRAND 8
@@ -49,7 +49,17 @@ each filesystem specified on the command line by
 .Ar special .
 This increases the security of NFS-exported filesystems by making
 it difficult to ``guess'' filehandles.
-
+.Pp
+.Em Note:
+.Xr newfs 8
+now does the equivalent of
+.Nm
+itself so it is no longer necesary to
+run
+.Nm
+by hand on a new filesystem.  It is only used to
+re-randomize or report on an existing filesystem.
+.Pp
 .Nm Fsirand
 should only be used on an unmounted filesystem that
 has been checked with
@@ -73,6 +83,12 @@ is not marked as clean.
 .It Fl p
 Print the current generation numbers for all inodes instead of
 generating new ones.
+.Sh CAVEATS
+Since
+.Nm
+allocates enough memory to hold all the inodes in
+a given cylinder group it is may use a large amount
+of memory for large disks with few cylinder groups.
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr fs 5 ,
 .Xr fsck 8 ,
@@ -85,7 +101,8 @@ command appeared in SunOS 3.x.
 This version of
 .Nm
 first appeared in
-.Bx Open .
+.Bx Open
+2.1.
 .Sh AUTHOR
 .nf
 Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>