>>> And there's certainly precedent for section 5 pages on filesystems. >>> For example, among others, we have ext4(5), btrfs(5), and nfs(5). >> >> But section 5 is for configuration files. You could move them >> to section 7 (general concepts), though. > > I can't move "them" as they come from diverse projects (nfs-utils, > e2fsprogs, btrfs-progs). Obviously, various projects came to the same > conclusion (or copied each other's idea) that Section 5 was the right > place. And in the Linux man-pages we also have filesystems(5) and > proc(5), for example.
Actually, other operating systems also seemed to come to the same conclusion. For FreeBSD, I see the following in Section 5: $ ls -1 *fs.5 autofs.5 devfs.5 ext2fs.5 fdescfs.5 fs.5 linprocfs.5 linsysfs.5 mqueuefs.5 msdosfs.5 nandfs.5 nullfs.5 procfs.5 tmpfs.5 Note the last! Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/