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authorDieter Plaetinck <dieter@plaetinck.be>2009-08-11 21:05:10 +0200
committerDieter Plaetinck <dieter@plaetinck.be>2009-08-11 21:05:10 +0200
commit2ef92eaa5f1106d8f1b379a8a94a477a0877bb1f (patch)
tree005e45309799eb3ba31d2a8034a83edb590d6e03
parentbf1ea974307c41bdc286f0ee220a97c7462ee1b8 (diff)
clarify mkfs options
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@@ -381,6 +381,11 @@ You should be aware of three things:
This is the case for dm_crypt and lvm volumes.
You will see them appear in the model and you can use them to put another
filesystem on top of it.
+* When asked for (optional) options to mkfs tools, you're supposed to pass
+ arguments which will literally be added when calling mkfs.
+ For example, to disable the journal on ext filesystems:
+ * don't do: `^has_journal`
+ * but rather: `-O ^has_journal`
Once you've setup some filesystems, you can select 'Done'. At this point a
check will be run which will tell you any critical errors (such as no root