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Package: mount
Version: 2.12p-2
Severity: wishlist
Hello,
I think the manpage of mount should mention the blkid utility from the
libblkid1 package. It is not obvious to look for exactly this name and even
Google needs very specific keywords to find a hint about this utility.
The manpage should also mention how to use UUIDs to specify the filesystem by
the UUID _instead_ of a device name (UUID=xyz). Mentioning -U option is not
enough, one has to read fstab(5) to learn the other syntax.
Regards,
Eduard.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages mount depends on:
ii libblkid1 1.36rc3-2 block device id library
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libuuid1 1.36rc3-2 universally unique id library
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Version: 2.28.2-1
Hello Eduard Bloch.
Thanks for your bug report. Sorry for the decade-later response.
On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 08:15:31PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> Package: mount
> Version: 2.12p-2
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Hello,
>
> I think the manpage of mount should mention the blkid utility from the
> libblkid1 package. It is not obvious to look for exactly this name and even
> Google needs very specific keywords to find a hint about this utility.
The current manpage mentiones the lsblk utility (which is preferred over
blkid).
>
> The manpage should also mention how to use UUIDs to specify the filesystem by
> the UUID _instead_ of a device name (UUID=xyz). Mentioning -U option is not
> enough, one has to read fstab(5) to learn the other syntax.
The current manpage mentiones both UUID and LABEL which both have
equivalent syntax. Using LABEL is preferred over UUID and thus the
included example is for the LABEL variant.
Regards,
Andreas Henriksson
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