Author: brooks Date: Fri Apr 14 00:15:34 2017 New Revision: 316800 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/316800
Log: MFC r316593: Point out that -F probably does not do what the user expects. Users attempting to create images from mtree METALOG files created by installworld often use -F when they should be passing the METALOG file in place of a directory. This is often produces difficult to debug error reports. Reviewed by: emaste Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL Modified: stable/10/usr.sbin/makefs/makefs.8 Directory Properties: stable/10/ (props changed) Modified: stable/10/usr.sbin/makefs/makefs.8 ============================================================================== --- stable/10/usr.sbin/makefs/makefs.8 Fri Apr 14 00:14:40 2017 (r316799) +++ stable/10/usr.sbin/makefs/makefs.8 Fri Apr 14 00:15:34 2017 (r316800) @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd November 15, 2015 +.Dd April 6, 2017 .Dt MAKEFS 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -115,6 +115,12 @@ set in .Ar debug-mask . XXX: document these .It Fl F Ar mtree-specfile +.Em This is almost certainly not the option you are looking for. +To create an image from a list of files in an mtree format manifest, +specify it as the last argument on the commandline, not as a the +argument to +.Fl F . +.Pp Use .Ar mtree-specfile as an _______________________________________________ svn-src-stable-10@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-stable-10 To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-stable-10-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
