Bug 53303
| Summary: | mount(2) man page error | ||||||
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| Product: | Documentation | Reporter: | larse <larse> | ||||
| Component: | Books & Articles | Assignee: | Tom Rhodes <trhodes> | ||||
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||||||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||||||
| Priority: | Normal | ||||||
| Version: | Latest | ||||||
| Hardware: | Any | ||||||
| OS: | Any | ||||||
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Hi,
It seems as though UFS is currently seen as an internally known file
system type, and therefore there is no mount_ufs command or man page.
I've modified the man page for mount(2) slightly, so that it now reads:
The data argument is a pointer to a structure that contains the
type spe- cific arguments to mount. The format for these argument
structures is described in the manual page for each file system.
By convention file system manual pages are named by prefixing
``mount_'' to the name of the file system as returned by lsvfs(1).
Thus the NFS file system is described by the mount_nfs(8) manual
page. It should however be noted that manual pages for internally
known file system types such as UFS, do not exist.
Would that be sufficient?
- Marc
Hi, the proposed change addresses the issue. Even better though would be a reference to where the respective information can be found for UFS (but I don't know where that would be.) Lars -- Lars Eggert NEC Network Laboratories State Changed From-To: open->patched Slightly different version of the patch committed, thanks for the submission! Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-doc->trhodes Over to me, MFC reminder. State Changed From-To: patched->closed MFC complete, close this PR. |
The mount(2) man page implicitly refers to a nonexisting mount_ufs man page in this paragraph: Data is a pointer to a structure that contains the type specific argu- ments to mount. The format for these argument structures is described in the manual page for each filesystem. 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. Since lsvfs lists "ufs" as a file system name, mount_ufs should exist that documents toe appropriate structure. How-To-Repeat: # lsvfs Filesystem Refs Flags -------------------------------- ----- --------------- ufs 2 procfs 1 synthetic linprocfs 1 synthetic ntfs 1 nfs 4 network # man mount_ufs No manual entry for mount_ufs