Clarify -T option of mke2fs in its man page

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

diff --git a/misc/ChangeLog b/misc/ChangeLog
index e1595774f798c1a0293523cc7af162fbcfa0bbbe..7e34cd4d165a39704423e50f08c50932cf386a4a 100644 (file)
--- a/misc/ChangeLog
+++ b/misc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2006-05-28  Theodore Tso  <tytso@mit.edu>
+
+       * mke2fs.8.in (types): Clarify -T option description.
+
 2006-05-22  Theodore Tso  <tytso@mit.edu>
 
        * mke2fs.conf: Make new filesystems with the following features

diff --git a/misc/mke2fs.8.in b/misc/mke2fs.8.in
index 7f196997b360ab3d517994242bf7caad389aceb8..dcec55285f3781077ea2cb56009db1350776d74e 100644 (file)
--- a/misc/mke2fs.8.in
+++ b/misc/mke2fs.8.in
@@ -439,10 +439,11 @@ or there is no chance of recovery.
 .BI \-T " fs-type"
 Specify how the filesystem is going to be used, so that 
 .B mke2fs 
-can choose optimal filesystem parameters for that use, as defined 
-filesystem type configuration settings found in the 
-.BR /etc/mke2fs.conf (5)
-file.
+can choose optimal filesystem parameters for that use.  The filesystem
+types that are can be supported are defined in the configuration file 
+.BR /etc/mke2fs.conf (5).
+The default configuration file contains definitions for the filesystem
+types: small, floppy, news, largefile, and largefile4.  
 .TP
 .B \-v
 Verbose execution.