From owner-cvs-all Tue Jan 7 13:57:13 2003 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B157237B401; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 13:57:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from pittgoth.com (14.zlnp1.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.149.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07A9743E4A; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 13:57:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Received: from moble.pittgoth.com (acs-24-154-229-196.zoominternet.net [24.154.229.196]) by pittgoth.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id h07LsQAp028444; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 16:54:26 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 16:54:44 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes To: Tony Finch 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> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.8claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 20:45:14 +0000 Tony Finch wrote: > Bruce Evans 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