Bug 510810 - Typo in vgcreate man page.
Summary: Typo in vgcreate man page.
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: lvm2
Version: 4.7
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: LVM and device-mapper development team
QA Contact: Cluster QE
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-07-10 21:45 UTC by Jay
Modified: 2009-07-13 11:26 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

Fixed In Version: 2.02.49 upstream
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2009-07-13 11:26:07 UTC
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Description Jay 2009-07-10 21:45:22 UTC
Description of problem:
Example section has a typo in description and the example.  Description "/dev/hdk1, and /dev/hdl1" to be changed to "/dev/sdk1, and /dev/skl1".

============ section from man page.
VGCREATE(8)                                                                                                                

NAME
       vgcreate - create a volume group
...
...
...
EXAMPLES
       To create a volume group named test_vg using physical volumes /dev/hdk1, and /dev/hdl1 with  default  physical
       extent size of 4MB:

            vgcreate test_vg /dev/sdk1 /dev/sdl1
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...

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
man vgcreate

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Read the man page.
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Actual results:
volumes /dev/hdk1, and /dev/hdl1

Expected results:
volumes /dev/sdk1, and /dev/sdl1

Additional info:

Comment 1 Ivana Varekova 2009-07-13 06:48:54 UTC
Hello, the man-page is part of lvm2 package so I'm reassigning the component.

Comment 2 Alasdair Kergon 2009-07-13 11:26:07 UTC
Thanks for pointing this out.  It's too late to change this in RHEL4 now, but I've corrected it upstream so it'll get into other releases as and when they are updated.


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