Am 05.11.2017 13:19, schrieb Jonny Grant: > Hello Michael > > Two pieces of feedback about this page: > > 1) I expect this sunsite should be a link to > https://www.samba.org/samba/smbfs/ ? > > > http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/filesystems.5.html > > > smb is a network filesystem that supports the SMB protocol, > used by Windows for Workgroups, Windows NT, and Lan Man‐ > ager. > > To use smb fs, you need a special mount program, which can > be found in the ksmbfs package, found at > > ⟨ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Filesystems/smbfs⟩;. > > > BTW, could "smbmount" to kernel man pages? > > > 2) vfat is an extended DOS filesystem used by Microsoft Windows95 > and Windows NT. vfat adds the capability to use long > file‐ > names under the MSDOS filesystem. > > > > I'd be inclined to call it an "extended FAT filesystem", can that be > changed? No one refers to it as DOS for around 22 years. Everyone calls > it FAT. > I thing that is more correct, it is an "extended FAT filesystem". But a lot of people still call is DOS filesystem. re, wh > ie > > "is an extended FAT filesystem supported since Microsoft Windows95 and > Windows NT 3.5. vfat adds the capability to use long file‐names under > the FAT filesystem." > > -- 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
