In the qemu-img documentation, one of the option for the dd command is mentioned as size whereas it is the skip parameter[1] that is also available in the dd command.
skip=BLOCKS skip BLOCKS ibs-sized blocks at start of input This patch corrects the documentation. [1] https://github.com/qemu/qemu/blob/63011373ad22c794a013da69663c03f1297a5c56/qemu-img.c#L229 Signed-off-by: Rajat Dhasmana <rajatdhasm...@gmail.com> --- docs/tools/qemu-img.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/tools/qemu-img.rst b/docs/tools/qemu-img.rst index ca5a2773cf..88ebe35360 100644 --- a/docs/tools/qemu-img.rst +++ b/docs/tools/qemu-img.rst @@ -501,7 +501,7 @@ Command description: modified by specifying *BLOCK_SIZE*. If count=\ *BLOCKS* is specified dd will stop reading input after reading *BLOCKS* input blocks. - The size syntax is similar to :manpage:`dd(1)`'s size syntax. + The skip syntax is similar to :manpage:`dd(1)`'s skip syntax. .. option:: info [--object OBJECTDEF] [--image-opts] [-f FMT] [--output=OFMT] [--backing-chain] [-U] FILENAME -- 2.34.1