Re: Typo in mkfs man-page

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> From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx>

> But /sbin/mkfs.xxx is generally run by system administrators, and IMHO
> it's better to tell people to run the command "/sbin/mkfs.xxx" instead
> of "/sbin/mkfs -t xxx".

This makes sense to me.

More exactly, mkfs is generally run "manually".

And while having fsck "do what I mean" is largely safe, creating a
file system is not the time that you want the user to be unclear on
the exact implications of each option he has specified.

Dale
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