--p, --print-nodes
- Prints the before and after node status, in a format designed to
- allow the user to understand the node's most important
- parameters. See the man page **hbal**(1) for more details about this
- field.
-
--t *datafile*, --text-data=*datafile*
- The name of the file holding cluster information, to override the
- data in the JSON request itself. This is mostly used for debugging.
-
---simulate *description*
- Similar to the **-t** option, this allows overriding the cluster
- data with a simulated cluster. For details about the description,
- see the man page **hspace**(1).
+-p, \--print-nodes
+ Prints the before and after node status, in a format designed to allow
+ the user to understand the node's most important parameters. See the
+ man page **htools**(1) for more details about this option.
+
+-t *datafile*, \--text-data=*datafile*
+ The name of the file holding cluster information, to override the data
+ in the JSON request itself. This is mostly used for debugging. The
+ format of the file is described in the man page **htools**(1).
+
+\--simulate *description*
+ Backend specification: similar to the **-t** option, this allows
+ overriding the cluster data with a simulated cluster. For details
+ about the description, see the man page **htools**(1).
+
+-S *filename*, \--save-cluster=*filename*
+ If given, the state of the cluster before and the iallocator run is
+ saved to a file named *filename.pre-ialloc*, respectively
+ *filename.post-ialloc*. This allows re-feeding the cluster state to
+ any of the htools utilities via the ``-t`` option.