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From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: Kenny Rachuonyo <krmboya@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Typo in mkfs man-page
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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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