Re: Typo in mkfs man-page

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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

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