Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 20:45:14 +0000 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, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man5 Makefile msdos.5 Message-ID: <20030107204514.F15690@chiark.greenend.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20030107231058.W8096-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
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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. -- f.a.n.finch <dot@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ CAPE WRATH TO RATTRAY HEAD INCLUDING ORKNEY: VARIABLE OR SOUTHEAST 2, INCREASING NORTH OR NORTHEAST 4. FAIR AT FIRST. ISOLATED WINTRY SHOWERS WEDNESDAY. MOSTLY GOOD. SLIGHT. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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