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Date:      Tue, 22 Aug 2000 08:20:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: bin/20710: mount output is to long, and "mount -v" is useless. 
Message-ID:  <200008221520.IAA09825@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR bin/20710; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/20710: mount output is to long, and "mount -v" is useless. 
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 17:17:19 +0200

 On Sat, 19 Aug 2000 12:40:03 MST, Bruce Evans wrote:
 
 >  > 	The "mount" command to get a list of mounted file systems now
 >  > 	outputs lots of information, making the critical stuff - the
 >  > 	actual mount points - hard to find.
 >  
 >  The stuff about reads and writes takes too much space and doesn't really
 >  belong in mount(8).
 >  
 >  > 	Also, the command "mount -v" and the command "mount" do the
 >  > 	exact same thing. This seems like such a waste.
 >  
 >  This is because mount with no args essentially applies -v.  -v only makes
 >  a difference for mounting a single filesystem.
 
 Hi Bruce,
 
 Could you suggest how we should go forward with this?  Your comments
 make it sound like you'd change _something_ about the status quo.
 
 Would you perhaps limit the printing of read and write information to
 verbose (-v) mode?
 
 Ciao,
 Sheldon.
 


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