> 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html