Re: Improvement suggestion for mkfs.8 manpage

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On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 10:20:02AM -0500, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> In general, I generally recommend that people use /sbin/mkfs.ext4 or
> /sbin/mke2fs -t ext4, because the mkfs wrapper doesn't add much value,
> and it gets confusing which options are parameters are grabbed by
> mkfs, and which will get passed to the back-end mkfs program.

Yes, the first sentence in the DESCRIPTION section:

  This mkfs frontend is deprecated in favour of filesystem specific mkfs.<type> utils.


Karel


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