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man pages for mkfs.ex4

Bug #381854 reported by Peter
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Nominated for Jaunty by Peter
Nominated for Karmic by Peter

Bug Description

Summary :
The man page for mkfs.ext4 only refers to ext2 and ext3 file systems
This from the man page: man mkfs.ext4
NAME
       mke2fs - create an ext2/ext3 filesystem
Should this be updated for ext4 file systems?

Details :
Ubuntu 9.04
/sbin/mkfs.ext4

Tags: ext4 file systems
Adonis Papaderos (ado-papas)
affects: ubuntu → e2fsprogs (Ubuntu)
Changed in e2fsprogs (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Theodore Ts'o (tytso) wrote :

Thanks for reporting this documentation bug. I've checked in a fix for the man pages of mke2fs (and e2fsck, and dumpe2fs, and resize2fs, and debugfs, et. al.), and it will be fixed in e2fsprogs 1.41.6.

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Peter (pfwd) wrote : Re: [Bug 381854] Re: man pages for mkfs.ex4

Not a problem.
Glad I could help

Thanks
Peter Fisher
blog.peterfisher.me.uk

On May 30, 2009 6:35 PM, "Theodore Ts&apos;o" <email address hidden> wrote:

Thanks for reporting this documentation bug. I've checked in a fix for
the man pages of mke2fs (and e2fsck, and dumpe2fs, and resize2fs, and
debugfs, et. al.), and it will be fixed in e2fsprogs 1.41.6.

-- man pages for mkfs.ex4 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/381854 You
received this bug notificatio...

Status in “e2fsprogs” source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed

Bug description: Summary : The man page for mkfs.ext4 only refers to ext2
and ext3 file systems This...

Revision history for this message
Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote :

This would have been included in the recent 1.41.8 upload

Changed in e2fsprogs (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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