From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Johannes Unglert <unglert@b1-systems.de>,
util-linux <util-linux@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Improvement suggestion for mkfs.8 manpage
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 10:41:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190211094143.5n77lillrqeyoy66@ws.net.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190208152002.GA23000@mit.edu>
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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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-06 15:43 Improvement suggestion for mkfs.8 manpage Johannes Unglert
2019-02-07 16:13 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-02-08 9:47 ` Johannes Unglert
2019-02-08 15:20 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-02-11 9:41 ` Karel Zak [this message]
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