On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 09:05:32AM +0000, Sami Kerola wrote: > 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? And mark it deprecated and one day kill it at all. Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- 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