Re: Typo in mkfs man-page

Sami Kerola
2014-02-11T09:05:33Z

On 10 February 2014 20:55, Dale R. Worley <worley@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>> From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
>
>> But /sbin/mkfs.xxx is generally run by system administrators, and IMHO
>> it's better to tell people to run the command "/sbin/mkfs.xxx" instead
>> of "/sbin/mkfs -t xxx".
>
> This makes sense to me.
>
> More exactly, mkfs is generally run "manually".
>
> And while having fsck "do what I mean" is largely safe, creating a
> file system is not the time that you want the user to be unclear on
> the exact implications of each option he has specified.

Would it make sense to add banner 'you probably should not run this
utility, consider using file system specific mkfs' to mkfs?

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Sami Kerola