From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Johannes Unglert <unglert@b1-systems.de>
Cc: <util-linux@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Improvement suggestion for mkfs.8 manpage
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2019 11:13:04 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190207161304.GC7387@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8cac72fd-8116-53e9-1a7f-5c22377dce04@b1-systems.de>
On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 04:43:14PM +0100, Johannes Unglert wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i stumbled upon a minor spelling error in the mkfs.8 manpage.
> It´s an capitalization error for the verbose option.
The existing man page is correct, as near as I can determine; the -V
is the verbose option to the mkfs wrapper program. For many file
system mkfs.FSTYP back ends -v is an option that will ask the
mkfs.FSTYP command to be verbose, but that's a different thing.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-07 16:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-06 15:43 Improvement suggestion for mkfs.8 manpage Johannes Unglert
2019-02-07 16:13 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o [this message]
2019-02-08 9:47 ` Johannes Unglert
2019-02-08 15:20 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-02-11 9:41 ` Karel Zak
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