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authorKarel Zak2009-06-26 10:33:48 +0200
committerKarel Zak2009-06-26 10:36:39 +0200
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parentumount: clean up help output (diff)
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mount: add info about obsolete vfat options to mount.8
Addresses-Debian-Bug: #329856 Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'mount/mount.8')
-rw-r--r--mount/mount.811
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/mount/mount.8 b/mount/mount.8
index 3d15f55db..88a91b5b2 100644
--- a/mount/mount.8
+++ b/mount/mount.8
@@ -1339,7 +1339,7 @@ and
filesystems.)
.TP
.BR blocksize=512 " / " blocksize=1024 " / " blocksize=2048
-Set blocksize (default 512).
+Set blocksize (default 512). This option is obsolete.
.TP
\fBuid=\fP\fIvalue\fP and \fBgid=\fP\fIvalue\fP
Set the owner and group of all files.
@@ -1437,7 +1437,7 @@ Programs that do computed lseeks won't like in-kernel text conversion.
Several people have had their data ruined by this translation. Beware!
For file systems mounted in binary mode, a conversion tool
-(fromdos/todos) is available.
+(fromdos/todos) is available. This option is obsolete.
.RE
.TP
.BI cvf_format= module
@@ -1445,9 +1445,10 @@ Forces the driver to use the CVF (Compressed Volume File) module
.RI cvf_ module
instead of auto-detection. If the kernel supports kmod, the
cvf_format=xxx option also controls on-demand CVF module loading.
+This option is obsolete.
.TP
.BI cvf_option= option
-Option passed to the CVF module.
+Option passed to the CVF module. This option is obsolete.
.TP
.B debug
Turn on the
@@ -1766,7 +1767,7 @@ and 1 a byteswapped bigendian encoding.
.B posix=[0|1]
If enabled (posix=1), the file system distinguishes between
upper and lower case. The 8.3 alias names are presented as
-hard links instead of being suppressed.
+hard links instead of being suppressed. This option is obsolete.
.TP
\fBuid=\fP\fIvalue\fP, \fBgid=\fP\fIvalue\fP and \fBumask=\fP\fIvalue\fP
Set the file permission on the filesystem.
@@ -2373,7 +2374,7 @@ One further possible type is a mount via the loop device. For example,
the command
.nf
-.B " mount /tmp/fdimage /mnt -t msdos -o loop=/dev/loop3,blocksize=1024"
+.B " mount /tmp/fdimage /mnt -t vfat -o loop=/dev/loop3
.fi
will set up the loop device