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| author | Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@FreeBSD.org> | 2021-01-20 10:40:20 +0000 |
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| committer | Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@FreeBSD.org> | 2021-04-20 08:07:25 +0000 |
| commit | 643758d2c26058a153c191128a4f7efe7c6cf820 (patch) | |
| tree | daaeb8dacb2583a4bf0602c4e38f059b17f5ba8f | |
| parent | b94b7f317594deea9baf4e0fa7036f14adf00954 (diff) | |
Explain the newfs naming convention
It might be unclear why newfs and newfs_msdos should cross-reference
each other. Add a note explaining it.
This is a follow-up to 74bd20769706041108a573601cf0b61c755bdc56.
Reported by: kib
Reviewed by: imp, kib, rpokala
MFC after: 3 days
(cherry picked from commit 5b9b65e92fb40703038cbcf61feb4616c42e0b6e)
| -rw-r--r-- | sbin/newfs/newfs.8 | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/newfs/newfs.8 b/sbin/newfs/newfs.8 index 0cc1d7ce12cf..5213e4109363 100644 --- a/sbin/newfs/newfs.8 +++ b/sbin/newfs/newfs.8 @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ .\" @(#)newfs.8 8.6 (Berkeley) 5/3/95 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd January 7, 2021 +.Dd April 17, 2021 .Dt NEWFS 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -291,6 +291,14 @@ to find the alternate superblocks if the standard superblock is lost. .It Fl S Ar sector-size The size of a sector in bytes (almost never anything but 512). .El +.Sh NOTES ON THE NAMING +.Dq newfs +is a common name prefix for utilities creating filesystems, with the suffix +indicating the type of the filesystem, for instance +.Xr newfs_msdos 8 . +The +.Nm +utility is a special case which predates that convention. .Sh EXAMPLES .Dl newfs /dev/ada3s1a .Pp |