Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?
On Saturday 13 November 2021 11:41:00 David Wright wrote:
> On Sat 13 Nov 2021 at 07:26:04 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote:
> > My mdadm manpage does not show the -S command. Scanniing it again to
> > make sure, probably for about the 10th time and I finally found it
> > but many megabytes of relatively unimportant drivel down from the
> > top, IMO the manpage is missleading as such an important option
> > ought to be shown on the first screenfull.
>
> You could sponsor it—just reply to one of those junk emails,
> "Get top page ranking!"
Sure, and its a good thing these jerks can't be located, as I know where
an old mine cache is, with several 1 cup containers of 75 yo nitro that
ought to be really unstable by now in it. Probably someones sick idea
for darwin award bait. I would have spoiled their fun by backing off a
couple hundred meters and seeing what effect an Ackley-06 rattling
around inside it had, but it looked like I might be ducking a 200lb
steel door if I did. So I walked off and went back to deer hunting.
Safer.
> Serously, you need only type /\-S into less, if you set it as
> your manpage viewer, export MANOPT="-P less"
>
> I would make one small criticism of some manpages; for example:
> chmod has its arguments documented in running text, whereas a
> table would be much easier to scan:
>
> A combination of the letters ugoa controls which users' access
> to the file will be changed:
> u the user who owns it,
> g other users in the file's group,
> o other users not in the file's group,
> a all users.
> none the effect is as if (a) were given, but bits
> that are set in the umask are not affected.
>
> compared with:
>
> A combination of the letters ugoa controls which users'
> access to the file will be changed: the user who owns
> it (u), other users in the file's group (g), other
> users not in the file's group (o), or all users (a).
> If none of these are given, the effect is as if (a)
> were given, but bits that are set in the umask are not
> affected.
>
> Cheers,
> David.
Plus 100 or more, David. That wall of text has confused me since red hat
5.0 in 1998. Soon to be 25 years. This has been a linux only house for
that long.
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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