On 22 Jan 2018 10:09, Karel Zak wrote: > On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 01:45:20PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > Add a new section to the top of the filesystem-specific chapter to point > > people generally to the filesystem-specific man pages. This way we can > > delete all the redundant subsections that say the same thing. > > Well, the subsections also provides the name of the package where is FS > specific man page :-) > > > -.SS "Mount options for xfs" > > -See the options section of the > > -.BR xfs (5) > > -man page (the xfsprogs package must be installed). > > It's probably not so important (and I have no strong opinion about > it), but I can imagine that for end-users it's useful. Maybe we can > add to the man page a small table with FS name, man page and package > name: > > xfs xfs(5) xfsprogs > ext4 ext4(5) e2fsprogs > cifs mount.cifs(8) cifs-utils > ... > > or is it overkill? the only reason i hesitated to try and do that was due to cross-distro package naming idiosyncrasies. but i guess if we refer to the upstream project using the name they choose, the rest can be an exercise for the user ? -mike
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