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From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Kenny Rachuonyo <krmboya@gmail.com>, util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Typo in mkfs man-page
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 12:07:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140221110722.GC30903@x2.net.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140210185741.GF4724@thunk.org>

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

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

      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-02-21 11:07 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
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 [this message]

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