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| author | brooks <brooks@FreeBSD.org> | 2017-04-14 00:13:33 +0000 |
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| committer | brooks <brooks@FreeBSD.org> | 2017-04-14 00:13:33 +0000 |
| commit | 4ca04241eb4aa836cfe2196040a2fefe04d24d38 (patch) | |
| tree | 3e59a4a443399eff3b93749fea56ff99c4493724 /usr.sbin | |
| parent | a953f8168ee4e2e13be7e0977eff461c1fd104f2 (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-4ca04241eb4aa836cfe2196040a2fefe04d24d38.zip FreeBSD-src-4ca04241eb4aa836cfe2196040a2fefe04d24d38.tar.gz | |
MFC r316593:
Point out that -F probably does not do what the user expects.
Users attempting to create images from mtree METALOG files created by
installworld often use -F when they should be passing the METALOG file
in place of a directory. This is often produces difficult to debug
error reports.
Reviewed by: emaste
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.sbin/makefs/makefs.8 | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/makefs/makefs.8 b/usr.sbin/makefs/makefs.8 index 3c3fd2b..c53eecf 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/makefs/makefs.8 +++ b/usr.sbin/makefs/makefs.8 @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd June 14, 2016 +.Dd April 6, 2017 .Dt MAKEFS 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -116,6 +116,12 @@ set in .Ar debug-mask . XXX: document these .It Fl F Ar mtree-specfile +.Em This is almost certainly not the option you are looking for. +To create an image from a list of files in an mtree format manifest, +specify it as the last argument on the commandline, not as a the +argument to +.Fl F . +.Pp Use .Ar mtree-specfile as an |
