Re: Typo in mkfs man-page

Karel Zak
2014-02-21T11:07:26Z

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 01:57:41PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 06:35:45PM +0100, Karel Zak wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I'll add that I've never been convinced that the mkfs front end is all
> that useful. It's probably better for people to explicitly run

Good point, I have marked the wrapper as deprecated.

Karel

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