Package: dosfstools Version: 3.0.12-1 Tags: patch Severity: minor Hi,
The dosfslabel manpage needs an update : On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 09:05:41PM +0000, Jon Grant wrote: > just quoting the man page: > > " label can't be longer than 11 characters." > > Could this be updated to clarify it is bytes, rather than characters. > If the name is Unicode, would be less than 11 characters. A patch is attached. Regards, -- François "KnuckOne" Wendling (frwendling at free d0t fr) GPG key: 048A18FE (pgp.mit.edu)
--- dosfslabel.8.orig 2012-01-15 10:15:35.000000000 +0000 +++ dosfslabel.8.new 2012-01-15 10:16:02.000000000 +0000 @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ .SH DESCRIPTION \fBdosfslabel\fR set or gets a MS\-DOS filesystem label from a given device. .PP -If the label is omitted, then the label name of the specified device is written on the standard output. A label can't be longer than 11 characters. +If the label is omitted, then the label name of the specified device is written on the standard output. A label can't be longer than 11 bytes. .SH OPTIONS .IP "\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR" 4
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