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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

-- 
 Karel Zak  <kzak@redhat.com>
 http://karelzak.blogspot.com

  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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