documented the "max disk size" option.

I'm sure I've done this before, we must have lost some patches a while
ago?
(This used to be commit 0c96ac512fe1f9baf35a8c1c0eb83e001ffb54df)

diff --git a/docs/manpages/smb.conf.5 b/docs/manpages/smb.conf.5
index d5100181de1b4a1c61b08423ad01cfe60fd8b419..86cfc832764afec4889055430be68edaf06517f2 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/manpages/smb.conf.5
+++ b/docs/manpages/smb.conf.5
@@ -1419,6 +1419,28 @@ software. Use this option to set it to whatever you prefer.
 .B Example:
        mangling char = ^
 
+.SS max disk size (G)
+This option allows you to put an upper limit on the apparent size of
+disks. If you set this option to 100 then all shares will appear to be
+not larger than 100 MB in size.
+
+Note that this option does not limit the amount of data you can put on
+the disk. In the above case you could still store much more than 100
+MB on the disk, but if a client ever asks for the amount of free disk
+space or the total disk size then the result will be bounded by the
+amount specified in "max disk size".
+
+This option is primarily useful to work around bugs in some pieces of
+software that can't handle very large disks, particularly disks over
+1GB in size.
+
+A "max disk size" of 0 means no limit.
+
+.B Default:
+       max disk size = 0
+
+.B Example:
+       max disk size = 1000
 .SS max log size (G)
 
 This option (an integer in kilobytes) specifies the max size the log