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 --- disk-utils/mkfs.8 | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'disk-utils/mkfs.8') 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. utils. +.PP .B mkfs is used to build a Linux filesystem on a device, usually a hard disk partition. The -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522