Typo man-page mkfs(8)

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* Typo man-page mkfs(8)
@ 2015-11-13 22:24 Barry Vos
  2015-11-15 15:07 ` Benno Schulenberg
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Barry Vos @ 2015-11-13 22:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: util-linux

To whom it may concern,

The man-page mkfs(8) mentions that the option -V equates to --verbose.
I think this should be -v instead.

Kind regards,

Barry Vos

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* Re: Typo man-page mkfs(8)
  2015-11-13 22:24 Typo man-page mkfs(8) Barry Vos
@ 2015-11-15 15:07 ` Benno Schulenberg
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Benno Schulenberg @ 2015-11-15 15:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Barry Vos; +Cc: Util-Linux


On Fri, Nov 13, 2015, at 23:24, Barry Vos wrote:
> The man-page mkfs(8) mentions that the option -V equates to --verbose.
> I think this should be -v instead.

Well, no.  A leading -V gets consumed by the mkfs program itself;
a -v gets passed on to the filesystem-specific helper program.

Try it:

mkfs -V  somefile
mkfs -V -v  somefile
mkfs -v  somefile
mkfs -v -V  somefile

Benno

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