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From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru>,
	Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org,
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man5 Makefile msdos.5
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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.

Tony.
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