From: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 00:06:49 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Document the -f option to mkfs.xfs.
X-Git-Tag: XFS-1_3_0pre1~39
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e92c4b4871ec65c44076f4b50abea20df6974d77;p=thirdparty%2Fxfsprogs-dev.git

Document the -f option to mkfs.xfs.
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diff --git a/man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8 b/man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8
index 2a6f2f56f..373a9f7b2 100644
--- a/man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8
+++ b/man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8
@@ -236,6 +236,13 @@ This suboption should be disabled if the filesystem
 needs to be used on operating system versions which do not support the
 flagging capability.
 .TP
+.B \-f
+Force overwrite when an existing filesystem is detected on the device.
+By default, 
+.I mkfs.xfs
+will not write to the device if it suspects that there is a filesystem
+or partition table on the device already.
+.TP
 .B \-i
 Inode options.
 .IP