From e92c4b4871ec65c44076f4b50abea20df6974d77 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nathan Scott Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 00:06:49 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Document the -f option to mkfs.xfs. --- man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8 | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) 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 -- 2.47.2