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author | Benno Schulenberg | 2013-01-22 11:56:58 +0100 |
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committer | Karel Zak | 2013-01-30 15:23:59 +0100 |
commit | 4ec32f6a891dfb76b15d3ee0d6be4f3033afc117 (patch) | |
tree | a968625cc824975ddf6c1af4a0a915be14e2b7ea /disk-utils/mkfs.c | |
parent | doc: remove incorrect spaces from lscpu synopsis in manpage (diff) | |
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mkfs: indicate that specifying fs-type and fs-options are independent
Also standardize and improve the help text, and slice it into strips
for ease of later translation maintenance.
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'disk-utils/mkfs.c')
-rw-r--r-- | disk-utils/mkfs.c | 28 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/disk-utils/mkfs.c b/disk-utils/mkfs.c index 55506c055..c34f9f61b 100644 --- a/disk-utils/mkfs.c +++ b/disk-utils/mkfs.c @@ -35,20 +35,20 @@ static void __attribute__ ((__noreturn__)) usage(FILE * out) { - fprintf(out, - _("Usage: %s [options] [-t type fs-options] device [size]\n"), - program_invocation_short_name); - - fprintf(out, _("\nOptions:\n" - " -t, --type=TYPE file system type, when undefined ext2 is used\n" - " fs-options parameters to real file system builder\n" - " device path to a device\n" - " size number of blocks on the device\n" - " -V, --verbose explain what is done\n" - " defining -V more than once will cause a dry-run\n" - " -V, --version output version information and exit\n" - " -V as version must be only option\n" - " -h, --help display this help and exit\n")); + fprintf(out, _("Usage:\n")); + fprintf(out, _(" %s [options] [-t <type>] [fs-options] <device> [<size>]\n"), + program_invocation_short_name); + + fprintf(out, _("\nOptions:\n")); + fprintf(out, _(" -t, --type=<type> filesystem type; when unspecified, ext2 is used\n")); + fprintf(out, _(" fs-options parameters for the real filesystem builder\n")); + fprintf(out, _(" <device> path to the device to be used\n")); + fprintf(out, _(" <size> number of blocks to be used on the device\n")); + fprintf(out, _(" -V, --verbose explain what is being done;\n" + " specifying -V more than once will cause a dry-run\n")); + fprintf(out, _(" -V, --version display version information and exit;\n" + " -V as --version must be the only option\n")); + fprintf(out, _(" -h, --help display this help text and exit\n")); fprintf(out, _("\nFor more information see mkfs(8).\n")); |