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| author | Phillip Susi | 2014-02-07 23:01:20 +0100 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2014-02-10 18:58:39 +0100 |
| commit | b5ab5bec7392a1b5de271ce6299ef9e355187652 (patch) | |
| tree | d8c866222f6e519aa548120787d8bb8c02ddf7d8 /disk-utils/mkfs.8 | |
| parent | hwclock: internationalizing the message of the used interface (diff) | |
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fix mkfs --verbose and man page
mkfs did not actually accept the long form --verbose option.
Also the man page seemed to indicate that version/verbose/help
options were passed to the filesystem specific utility when this
is not the case.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'disk-utils/mkfs.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | disk-utils/mkfs.8 | 7 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/disk-utils/mkfs.8 b/disk-utils/mkfs.8 index 9e82bc465..3b905b284 100644 --- a/disk-utils/mkfs.8 +++ b/disk-utils/mkfs.8 @@ -53,8 +53,6 @@ If not specified, the default filesystem type .TP .I fs-options Filesystem-specific options to be passed to the real filesystem builder. -Although not guaranteed, the following options are supported -by most filesystem builders. .TP .BR \-V , " \-\-verbose" Produce verbose output, including all filesystem-specific commands @@ -73,10 +71,7 @@ Display help text and exit. .SH BUGS All generic options must precede and not be combined with filesystem-specific options. -Some filesystem-specific programs do not support the -.B -V -(verbose) option, nor return meaningful exit codes. -Also, some filesystem-specific programs do not automatically +Some filesystem-specific programs do not automatically detect the device size and require the .I size parameter to be specified. |