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Date:      Wed, 24 Apr 2002 01:34:27 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        "Tim J. Robbins" <tim@robbins.dropbear.id.au>
Cc:        Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.ORG>, Peter Avalos <pavalos@theshell.com>, <freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: df -t option
Message-ID:  <20020424013035.A12579-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020423200510.A1738@treetop.robbins.dropbear.id.au>

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On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Tim J. Robbins wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 08:22:57PM -0400, Mike Barcroft wrote:
>
> > I agree.  In -stable, -T could become an alias for -t, and using -t
> > instead of -T could result in a warning noting its deprecated status.
> > I did something similar when I added the -p option to whois(1).
>
> A quick grep shows that the mount(8) and umount(8) utilities, but nothing
> else, use -t to specify the filesystem type. What do you propose be done

Also fsck.

> with these utilities? Leaving mount/umount alone seems like the right thing
> to do to me, but it may also be confusing.

Leaving df -t alone seems right to me.  df -t is a bit newer than mount -t
though.  It wasn't in FreeBSD-1.

Bruce


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