Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2017 23:35:11 +0000 (UTC) From: Brooks Davis <brooks@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r316593 - head/usr.sbin/makefs Message-ID: <201704062335.v36NZBJ3022138@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: brooks Date: Thu Apr 6 23:35:10 2017 New Revision: 316593 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/316593 Log: Point out that -F probably does not do what the user expects. Users attempting to create images from mtree METALOG files created by installworld often use -F when they should be passing the METALOG file in place of a directory. This is often produces difficult to debug error reports. Reviewed by: emaste MFC after: 1 week Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10038 Modified: head/usr.sbin/makefs/makefs.8 Modified: head/usr.sbin/makefs/makefs.8 ============================================================================== --- head/usr.sbin/makefs/makefs.8 Thu Apr 6 22:50:28 2017 (r316592) +++ head/usr.sbin/makefs/makefs.8 Thu Apr 6 23:35:10 2017 (r316593) @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd June 14, 2016 +.Dd April 6, 2017 .Dt MAKEFS 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -116,6 +116,12 @@ set in .Ar debug-mask . XXX: document these .It Fl F Ar mtree-specfile +.Em This is almost certainly not the option you are looking for. +To create an image from a list of files in an mtree format manifest, +specify it as the last argument on the commandline, not as a the +argument to +.Fl F . +.Pp Use .Ar mtree-specfile as an
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