From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:27697 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754439AbaBULH0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Feb 2014 06:07:26 -0500 Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 12:07:22 +0100 From: Karel Zak To: "Theodore Ts'o" Cc: Kenny Rachuonyo , util-linux@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Typo in mkfs man-page Message-ID: <20140221110722.GC30903@x2.net.home> References: <20140210173545.GK8506@x2.net.home> <20140210185741.GF4724@thunk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20140210185741.GF4724@thunk.org> Sender: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 http://karelzak.blogspot.com