On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 01:57:41PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 06:35:45PM +0100, Karel Zak wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 10:38:31AM +0300, Kenny Rachuonyo wrote: > > > The short form of the --verbose option should probably be -v instead of -V > > > > > > This occurs both on the online man-page: > > > > > > http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/mkfs.8.html > > > > > > and my local system (Ubuntu 12.04) man-page. > > > > I think this historical mess is well explained in the man page. > > I'll add that I've never been convinced that the mkfs front end is all > that useful. It's probably better for people to explicitly run Good point, I have marked the wrapper as deprecated. 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