On 10 February 2014 20:55, Dale R. Worley <worley@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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. Would it make sense to add banner 'you probably should not run this utility, consider using file system specific mkfs' to mkfs? -- Sami Kerola http://www.iki.fi/kerolasa/ -- 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
