From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: Kenny Rachuonyo <krmboya@gmail.com>
Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Typo in mkfs man-page
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 18:35:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140210173545.GK8506@x2.net.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFeW3TRKCNKtXv-9mQC86JM6xQNySQn=csJQFa2RqBRBnbujug@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 10:38:31AM +0300, Kenny Rachuonyo wrote:
> The short form of the --verbose option should probably be -v instead of -V
>
> This occurs both on the online man-page:
>
> http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/mkfs.8.html
>
> and my local system (Ubuntu 12.04) man-page.
I think this historical mess is well explained in the man page.
Karel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-10 17:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-22 7:38 Typo in mkfs man-page Kenny Rachuonyo
2014-02-10 17:35 ` Karel Zak [this message]
2014-02-10 18:57 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-02-10 20:55 ` Dale R. Worley
2014-02-11 9:05 ` Sami Kerola
2014-02-11 9:22 ` Karel Zak
2014-02-12 20:13 ` Dale R. Worley
2014-02-21 11:07 ` Karel Zak
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