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diff --git a/sys-apps/nbd/files/nbd-client.8 b/sys-apps/nbd/files/nbd-client.8 deleted file mode 100644 index 1186212369ff..000000000000 --- a/sys-apps/nbd/files/nbd-client.8 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,99 +0,0 @@ -.\" This manpage has been automatically generated by docbook2man -.\" from a DocBook document. This tool can be found at: -.\" <http://shell.ipoline.com/~elmert/comp/docbook2X/> -.\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches, -.\" etc. to Steve Cheng <steve@ggi-project.org>. -.TH "NBD-CLIENT" "8" "04 April 2004" "" "" -.SH NAME -nbd-client \- connect to a server running nbd-server(1), to use its exported block device -.SH SYNOPSIS - -\fBnbd-client\fR [ \fBbs=\fIblocksize\fB\fR ] \fB\fIhost\fB\fR \fB\fIport\fB\fR \fB\fInbd-device\fB\fR [ \fB-swap\fR ] - - -\fBnbd-client\fR \fB-d \fInbd-device\fB\fR - -.SH "DESCRIPTION" -.PP -This manual page documents briefly the -\fBnbd-client\fR command. -.PP -This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution -because the original program does not have a manual page. -.PP -With \fBnbd-client\fR, you can connect to a -server running \fBnbd-server\fR, thus using raw -diskspace from that server as a blockdevice on the local -client. -.PP -To do this, support from the Linux Kernel is necessary, in -the form of the Network Block Device (NBD). When you have that, -either in the kernel, or as a module, you can connect to an NBD -server and use its exported file through a block special file with -major mode 43. -.SH "OPTIONS" -.PP -The following options are supported: -.TP -\fBbs=\fIblocksize\fB\fR -Use a blocksize of "blocksize". Default is 1024; -allowed values are either 512, 1024, 2048 or 4096 -.TP -\fBhost\fR -The hostname of the machine running -\fBnbd-server\fR. -.TP -\fBport\fR -The TCP port on which \fBnbd-server\fR is -running at the server. -.TP -\fBnbd-device\fR -The block special file this nbd-client should connect -to. -.TP -\fB-swap\fR -Specifies that this NBD device will be used as -swapspace. If you intend to do that, please use this -option to prevent deadlocks. You'll need a special kernel -patch, available at NBD's homepage: -http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel -.SH "EXAMPLES" -.PP -Some examples of nbd-client usage: -.TP 0.2i -\(bu -To connect to a server running on port 2000 at host -"server.domain.com", using the client's block special file -"/dev/nd0": - -\fBnbd-client 2000 server.domain.com -/dev/nd0\fR -.TP 0.2i -\(bu -To connect to a server running on port 2001 at host -"swapserver.domain.com", using the client's block special -file "/dev/nd1", for swap purposes: - -\fBnbd-client 2001 swapserver.domain.com /dev/nd1 --swap\fR -.TP 0.2i -\(bu -To disconnect the above connection again (after making -sure the block special file is not in use anymore): - -\fBnbd-client -d /dev/nd1\fR -.SH "SEE ALSO" -.PP -nbd-server (1). -.SH "AUTHOR" -.PP -The NBD kernel module and the NBD tools have been written by -Pavel Macheck (pavel@ucw.cz). -.PP -This manual page was written by Wouter Verhelst (<wouter@debian.org>) for -the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). Permission is -granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the -terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, -Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software -Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and -no Back-Cover Texts. |