From 4459245fa320b37bf433b7ddd3b206249ee54381 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Karel Zak Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 12:04:18 +0100 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Karel Zak --- Documentation/deprecated.txt | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/deprecated.txt') 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.. + What: fdisk -s Why: this does not belong to fdisk, use "blockdev --getsz" -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522