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From 3e2cfa88b6538bb0fee3d9a6e99622055d05ac4a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@windriver.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 21:14:37 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Update the manual

Update the manual for rotating on different filesystems.

Upstream-Status: Pending

Signed-off-by: Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@windriver.com>

---
 logrotate.8.in | 10 ++++------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/logrotate.8.in b/logrotate.8.in
index 98fea91..70b4c44 100644
--- a/logrotate.8.in
+++ b/logrotate.8.in
@@ -202,12 +202,10 @@ at all (use with caution, may waste performance and disk space). Default is 0.
 
 .TP
 \fBolddir \fIdirectory\fR
-Logs are moved into \fIdirectory\fR for rotation.  The \fIdirectory\fR must be
-on the same physical device as the log file being rotated, unless \fBcopy\fR,
-\fBcopytruncate\fR or \fBrenamecopy\fR option is used.  The \fIdirectory\fR
-is assumed to be relative to the directory holding the log file
-unless an absolute path name is specified.  When this option is used all
-old versions of the log end up in \fIdirectory\fR.  This option may be
+Logs are moved into \fIdirectory\fR for rotation. The \fIdirectory\fR
+is assumed to be relative to the directory holding the log file unless
+an absolute path name is specified. When this option is used all old
+versions of the log end up in \fIdirectory\fR. This option may be
 overridden by the \fBnoolddir\fR option.
 
 .TP
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