Hi Benjamin, On Wed, Feb 11, 2026 at 05:48:38PM +0000, Benjamin Drung wrote: > On Wed, 2026-02-11 at 02:28 +0800, Gao Xiang wrote: > > Reported-by: Benjamin Drung <[email protected]> > > Closes: https://github.com/erofs/erofs-utils/issues/36 > > Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <[email protected]> > > --- > > man/mkfs.erofs.1 | 3 +++ > > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) > > > > diff --git a/man/mkfs.erofs.1 b/man/mkfs.erofs.1 > > index cc5a3109ac7f..4316214ff1e2 100644 > > --- a/man/mkfs.erofs.1 > > +++ b/man/mkfs.erofs.1 > > @@ -240,6 +240,9 @@ Use extended inodes instead of compact inodes if the > > file modification time > > would overflow compact inodes. This is the default. Overrides > > .BR --ignore-mtime . > > .TP > > +.B "\-\-quiet" > > +Quiet execution (do not write anything to standard output.) > > +.TP > > .BI "\-\-sort=" MODE > > Inode data sorting order for tarballs as input. > > > > Does mkfs.erofs also support the short version -q?
Nope.. generally long options are preferred unless the functionalities are vitally important so that it deserve a short version (I don't want to have arbitary option list from `a` to `z`, also if some common alphabet is used for an uncommon usage, it will be hard to remove or switch to a more useful usage.) Thanks, Gao Xiang > > -- > Benjamin Drung > Debian & Ubuntu Developer >
