Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 16:54:44 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> To: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, danfe@nsu.ru, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man5 Makefile msdos.5 Message-ID: <20030107165444.1d7e81e7.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20030107204514.F15690@chiark.greenend.org.uk> References: <20030107231058.W8096-100000@gamplex.bde.org> <20030107204514.F15690@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
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On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 20:45:14 +0000 Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> wrote: > Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> wrotee: > > On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Tony Finch wrote: > > > > > > The documented place for finding filesystem documentation is in > > > the appropriate mount_foofs manual page. The mount(2) manual says: > > > > > > By convention filesystem > > > manual > > > pages are named by prefixing ``mount_'' to the name of the > > > filesystem as returned by lsvfs(1). Thus the NFS filesystem > > > is described by the mount_nfs(8) manual page. > > > > This doesn't seem to be good, or even correct for one example give > > (mount_nfs(8)). > > Granted, but the content of the msdosfs(5) manual page clearly belongs > partly in mount_msdosfs(8) and partly in fstab(5) (which also refers > to mount_foofs). Kernel compilation is documented elsewhere, and in > any case mount will automatically load the kernel module as needed. I > agree that for new users it would be useful to provide an alias for > filesystem manuals without the mount_ prefix. > I think it should just be moved to another section or left alone, the only question I have is where exactly should it be put? Perhaps just move it to 4 since its a driver manual page... -- Tom Rhodes To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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