Hi Jeff, On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Jeff B <JeffBatHome@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On 05/18/2010 02:56 PM, Petr Baudis wrote: >> >> Hi! >> >> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:05:36PM -0400, Jeff B wrote: >> >>> >>> Just FYI the fs(5) man page is woefully out of date. The version on your >>> website at >>> http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man5/fs.5.html, >>> dated 2007-12-14, does not mention EXT4 and NTFS, among other things. >>> >> >> Patches are welcome. >> >> Kind regards, >> Petr "Pasky" Baudis >> > > OK, you want a patch, you get a patch. This is against the latest > version, man-pages-3.24, of the filesystems.5 man page. I added > references to ext4 and ntfs by condensing information I took from > the Wikipedia pages for those file systems. > > I hope it is acceptable that I attached the patch in diff -u format; > pasting it into this eMail was converting tabs into spaces. Inline is best. There's usually a way to do this in most mail clients (though not always obvious). Thanks for the patch! I tweaked it a little, and applied the form below. The change will be in man-pages-3.25. Cheers, Michael --- a/man5/filesystems.5 +++ b/man5/filesystems.5 @@ -22,12 +22,12 @@ .\" .\" 2007-12-14 mtk Added Reiserfs, XFS, JFS. .\" -.TH FILESYSTEMS 5 2007-12-14 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH FILESYSTEMS 5 2010-05-24 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .nh .SH NAME -filesystems \- Linux file-system types: minix, ext, ext2, ext3, Reiserfs, +filesystems \- Linux file-system types: minix, ext, ext2, ext3, ext4, Reiserfs, XFS, JFS, xia, msdos, -umsdos, vfat, proc, nfs, iso9660, hpfs, sysv, smb, ncpfs +umsdos, vfat, ntfs, proc, nfs, iso9660, hpfs, sysv, smb, ncpfs .SH DESCRIPTION When, as is customary, the .B proc @@ -77,6 +77,12 @@ is a journaling version of the ext2 file system. It is easy to switch back and forth between ext2 and ext3. .TP +.B ext4 +is a set of upgrades to ext3 including substantial performance and +reliability enhancements, +plus large increases in volume, file, and directory size limits. +.TP + .B Reiserfs .B Reiserfs is a journaling file system, designed by Hans Reiser, that was integrated into Linux in kernel 2.4.1. @@ -116,6 +122,11 @@ sacrificing compatibility with DOS. is an extended DOS file system used by Microsoft Windows95 and Windows NT. VFAT adds the capability to use long filenames under the MSDOS file system. .TP +.B ntfs +replaces Microsoft Window's FAT file systems (VFAT, FAT32). +It has reliability, performance, and space-utilization enhancements +plus features like ACLs, journaling, encryption, and so on. +.TP .B proc is a pseudo file system which is used as an interface to kernel data structures rather than reading and interpreting -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface" http://blog.man7.org/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
