Changeset 77142 in vbox for trunk/src/VBox

Timestamp:

Feb 2, 2019 12:20:11 AM (6 years ago)

Author:

vboxsync

svn:sync-xref-src-repo-rev:

128602

Message:

First two usage paragraphs needed more pruning/editing

File:

• trunk/src/VBox/ImageMounter/vboximg-mount/vboximg-mount.cpp (modified) (2 diffs)

trunk/src/VBox/ImageMounter/vboximg-mount/vboximg-mount.cpp

@@ -210 +210 @@
     RTPrintf("usage: vboximg-mount [options] <mount point directory path>\n\n"
         "vboximg-mount options:\n\n"
-        "  [ { -i | --image } <specifier> ]   VirtualBox disk base or snapshot image,\n"
-        "                                     specified by UUID, or fully-qualified path\n"
+        "  [ { -i | --image } <specifier> ]   VirtualBox disk base image or snapshot,\n"
+        "                                     specified by UUID or path\n"
         "\n"
         "  [ { -l | --list } ]                If --image specified, list its partitions,\n"
@@ -245 +245 @@
     RTPrintf("\n"
       "vboximg-mount is a utility to make VirtualBox disk images available to the host\n"
-      "operating system in a root or non-root accessible way. The user selects which\n"
-      "point in the available history of the virtual disk to mount it by specifying\n"
-      "either the base image or a snapshot image on the command line.\n"
+      "operating system for privileged or non-priviliged access. Any version of the\n"
+      "disk can be mounted from its available history of snapshots.\n"
       "\n"
-      "If the user provides a base image UUID/path with the --image option, only\n"
+      "If the user specifies a base image identifier using the --image option, only\n"
       "the base image will be mounted, disregarding any snapshots. Alternatively,\n"
-      "if a snapshot (e.g. disk differencing image) is provided, the chain of\n"
-      "snapshots is calculated from that \"leaf\" snapshot to the base image and\n"
-      "the resulting chain is processed to synthesize a FUSE-mounted virtual disk\n"
-      "in the depicted state.\n"
+      "if a snapshot is specified, the state of the FUSE-mounted virtual disk\n"
+      "is synthesized from the implied chain of snapshots, including base the image.\n"
       "\n"
       "The virtual disk is exposed as a device node within a FUSE-based filesystem\n"