Re: Typo in mkfs man-page

Dale R. Worley
2014-02-10T20:55:06Z

> 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.

Dale