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| author | Karel Zak | 2014-02-21 12:04:18 +0100 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2014-02-21 12:04:18 +0100 |
| commit | 4459245fa320b37bf433b7ddd3b206249ee54381 (patch) | |
| tree | e2bca559c389f7444e20f3732f01c9c273a2c520 /disk-utils/mkfs.8 | |
| parent | more: improve formatting and wording of man page and help text (diff) | |
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mkfs: mark this wrapper as DEPRECATED
Theodore Ts'o:
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
/sbin/mkfs.xfs, /sbin/mkfs.ext4, etc.., so you don't have to worry
about which options get passed down to the file system specific mkfs
program, and which ones are interpreted by /sbin/mkfs --- and I don't
believe /sbin/mkfs adds enough (err, any?) value that using
"/sbin/mkfs -t xxx" vs "/sbin/mkfs.xxx" makes any sense whatsoever.
... and I absolutely agree.
Reported-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/disk-utils/mkfs.8 b/disk-utils/mkfs.8 index 3b905b284..ba071400d 100644 --- a/disk-utils/mkfs.8 +++ b/disk-utils/mkfs.8 @@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ mkfs \- build a Linux filesystem .RB [ \-t .IR type "] [" fs-options ] " device " [ size ] .SH DESCRIPTION +.B This mkfs frontend is deprecated in favour of filesystem specific mkfs.<type> utils. +.PP .B mkfs is used to build a Linux filesystem on a device, usually a hard disk partition. The |