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diff --git a/Documentation/deprecated.txt b/Documentation/deprecated.txt index 5113594ac..33072d9d1 100644 --- a/Documentation/deprecated.txt +++ b/Documentation/deprecated.txt @@ -2,6 +2,9 @@ The following is a list of commands or features that are deprecated. All deprecated utils are in maintenance mode and we keep them in source tree for backward compatibility only. +What: mkfs +Why: use filesystem specific mkfs.<type>. + What: fdisk -s <device> Why: this does not belong to fdisk, use "blockdev --getsz" 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 |