docs/122053: updaze on vinum(4) reference to newfs(8)

[Remko Lodder]

The following reply was made to PR docs/122053; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Remko Lodder" <remko at elvandar.org>
To: "Fico" <federicogalvezdurand at yahoo.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/122053: updaze on vinum(4) reference to newfs(8)
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:34:07 +0100 (CET)

 > MAKING FILE SYSTEM sub-section on vinum(4) need update on how to use
 > newfs(8).
 >>How-To-Repeat:
 >
 >>Fix:
 >
 >
 > Patch attached with submission follows:
 >
 > --- man.orig/man4/vinum.4	2006-06-11 21:41:07.000000000 +0200
 > +++ man/man4/vinum.4	2008-03-24 17:01:39.000000000 +0100
 > @@ -428,18 +428,20 @@
 >  For a physical disk partition, the
 >  last letter of the device name specifies the partition identifier (a to
 > h).
 >  .Nm
 > -volumes need not conform to this convention, but if they do not,
 > -.Xr newfs 8
 > -will complain that it cannot determine the partition.
 > -To solve this problem,
 > -use the
 > -.Fl v
 > -flag to
 > -.Xr newfs 8 .
 > +volumes does not need to conform with this convention.
 >  For example, if you have a volume
 >  .Pa concat ,
 >  use the following command to create a UFS file system on it:
 >  .Pp
 > +.Dl "newfs /dev/gvinum/concat"
 > +.Pp
 > +.Ss Note:
 > +On FreeBSD versions prior to 5.0
 > +.Xr newfs 8
 > +requires an additional
 > +.Fl v
 > +flag and the old device naming scheme:
 > +.Pp
 
 Only this should be mentioned in <5.0 which is no longer supported. It has
 no reason whatsoever in later revision. We recently cleared out a lot of
 these items that were for older releases that we are not supporting
 anymore. The note shouldn't be there.
 
 >  .Dl "newfs -v /dev/vinum/concat"
 >  .Sh OBJECT NAMING
 >  .Nm
 >
 
 
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