Bug 171339
| Summary: | mt man page misdescribes fsfm and bsfm arguments | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Need Real Name <kodis> |
| Component: | mt-st | Assignee: | Jindrich Novy <jnovy> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 4 | CC: | pknirsch |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2005-10-21 06:35:04 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: The operation of the fsfm and bsfm arguments is mis-described in the mt man page. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mt-st-0.8-5 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Read the mt man page. 2. 3. Actual Results: The man page includes this description: bsfm Backward space count files. The tape is positioned on the first block of the next file. ... and similarly for fsfm. Expected Results: The bsfm description should say that "The tape is positioned on the first block of the previous file.", and that fsfm moves to the next file. Additional info: Even that description is a bit misleading, in that to re-read a tape file that you've just read requires a "bsfm 2" to return to the beginning of the just-read file. Perhaps something brief description of how file marks are used in tape positioning would be in order.