Re: [ANNOUNCE] util-linux-ng v2.18-rc1

From: Miklos Szeredi
Date: Tue Jun 08 2010 - 08:53:51 EST


On Tue, 8 Jun 2010, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 of June 2010, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > On Tue, 8 Jun 2010, Karel Zak wrote:
> > > umount(8):
> > > - supports new command line option "-f/--fake" to avoid umount(2)
> > > syscall
> >
> > I think you just mean "--fake", -f is --force.
>
> It's usually called --dry-run, --fake is uncommon.

For mount(8) and umount(8) --fake has a different function from
--dry-run, as it does modify /etc/mtab.

Thanks,
Miklos
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