docs: remove some old history from manpages

[thirdparty/util-linux.git] / disk-utils / mkfs.8

diff --git a/disk-utils/mkfs.8 b/disk-utils/mkfs.8
index ba071400d48f1f4269022d1bd723eb6ce5b75ded..e3a7f8b6bfa4633b2dcbb0ab1fa57946c20ffa44 100644 (file)
--- a/disk-utils/mkfs.8
+++ b/disk-utils/mkfs.8
@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
-.\" -*- nroff -*-
 .TH MKFS 8 "June 2011" "util-linux" "System Administration"
 .SH NAME
 mkfs \- build a Linux filesystem
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .B mkfs
-.RI [ options ]
+[options]
 .RB [ \-t
 .IR type "] [" fs-options ] " device " [ size ]
 .SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -30,20 +29,8 @@ In actuality,
 is simply a front-end for the various filesystem builders
 (\fBmkfs.\fIfstype\fR)
 available under Linux.
-The filesystem-specific builder is searched for in a number
-of directories, like perhaps
-.IR /sbin ,
-.IR /sbin/fs ,
-.IR /sbin/fs.d ,
-.IR /etc/fs ,
-.I /etc
-(the precise list is defined at compile time but at least
-contains
-.I /sbin
-and
-.IR /sbin/fs ),
-and finally in the directories
-listed in the PATH environment variable.
+The filesystem-specific builder is searched for via your PATH
+environment setting only.
 Please see the filesystem-specific builder manual pages for
 further details.
 .SH OPTIONS
@@ -80,13 +67,14 @@ parameter to be specified.
 .SH AUTHORS
 David Engel (david@ods.com)
 .br
-Fred N. van Kempen (waltje@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org)
+Fred N.\& van Kempen (waltje@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org)
 .br
 Ron Sommeling (sommel@sci.kun.nl)
 .br
 The manual page was shamelessly adapted from Remy Card's version
 for the ext2 filesystem.
 .SH SEE ALSO
+.na
 .BR fs (5),
 .BR badblocks (8),
 .BR fsck (8),
@@ -99,8 +87,8 @@ for the ext2 filesystem.
 .BR mkfs.minix (8),
 .BR mkfs.msdos (8),
 .BR mkfs.vfat (8),
-.BR mkfs.xfs (8),
-.BR mkfs.xiafs (8)
+.BR mkfs.xfs (8)
+.ad
 .SH AVAILABILITY
 The mkfs command is part of the util-linux package and is available from
-ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
+https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.