Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 58354
man mkfs errors
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:39:00 EDT
mkfs(8) man page references several man pages which don't exist: mkfs.xiafs(8) mkfs.xfs(8) mkfs.ext2(8) mkfs(8) also fails to reference several relevant man pages which do exist: mkfs.bfs(8) mkfs.vfat(8)
The references to non-existent man pages will stay, just because they point to packages that are most likely optional or third party... I've added the new ones for completeness, though.
*** Bug 59383 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
mkfs.ext2(8) should instead be mke2fs(8) (e2fsprogs installs mkfs.ext2 and mke2fs, but the only relevant man page it supplies is mke2fs.8, not mkfs.ext2.8) I'm not sure if the bug there is in e2fsprogs (ie, should it make mkfs.ext2.8 a symlink to mke2fs.8?; the commands mkfs.ext2 and mke2fs are simply hard links to the same file) or in util-linux (ie, should it reference mke2fs.8 instead of mkfs.ext2.8?). One of the two needs updating, though. xfs I've not messed with yet, and xiafs I haven't used in so many years I can't remember how it worked ;-)
I fixed the man page stuff in e2fsprogs-1.26-2, so this isn't an issue. mkfs.ext2 is the saner thing to use.
I can't get any of the MAN pages to work in the latest build, so I sam reopening this bug. I get this message: # man mkfs.ext3 <standard input>:2: realpath on `man8/mke2fs.8' failed: No such file or directory
The problem is that mke2fs.8, mkfs.ext2.8, and mkfs.ext3.8 were created as hard links to the same file, which just self-referentially references mke2fs.8: [root@station6 man8]# ls -li mkfs.ext2.8.gz mke2fs.8.gz mkfs.ext3.8.gz 1498535 -rw-r--r-- 3 root root 47 Apr 3 11:25 mke2fs.8.gz 1498535 -rw-r--r-- 3 root root 47 Apr 3 11:25 mkfs.ext2.8.gz 1498535 -rw-r--r-- 3 root root 47 Apr 3 11:25 mkfs.ext3.8.gz [root@station6 man8]# cp mke2fs.8.gz foo.8.gz [root@station6 man8]# gunzip foo.8.gz gunzip: foo.8 already exists; do you wish to overwrite (y or n)? y [root@station6 man8]# cat foo.8 .so man8/mke2fs.8 [root@station6 man8]# exit mkfs.ext3 and mke2fs should be hardlinks to a file containing: .so man8/mkfs.ext2.8 and then mkfs.ext2.8 needs to be a file with the actual content (or something like that) Hmm, this needs to be changed to Red Hat Linux Beta and Beta 3 / Beta 4. Not sure if I can actually do that, though.
BTW, to read man pages, use the zcat command. So, have you checked this out yet, sopwith?
I'm supposed to be on vacation through Monday, so I may not get to fixing it until after then. IIRC mke2fs was the actual man page and mkfs.ext* were supposed to be the redirects. Maybe I accidentally included mke2fs in the list of files that I created with the one-line redirect thing - if so, it should be a trivial fix that you can build yourself if so inclined.
Appears to be fixed (suboptimally) in e2fsprogs-1.27-3