fdisk and labels

Nifty Fedora Mitch niftyfedora at niftyegg.com
Tue Oct 21 21:10:06 UTC 2008


On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 10:48:26PM -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> 
> 
> "Paul W. Frields" <stickster at gmail.com> writes:
> > On Fedora 9, mtools may not be installed on many systems, but you can
> > use /sbin/dosfslabel for the same purpose, I believe.
> 
> Thanks for the tip.  
> 
> One minor problem with finding dosfslabel is that it is rather well
> hidden.  I tried a "man -k label" to see what labeling utilities were
> installed, but dosfslabel didn't have a man page, hence it never got
> indexed.
> 
> Is there some other indexing program I should have tried in addition
> to "man -k"?
> 

File a bug against the man page that the "key words" indexed by makewhatis
for "man -k; apropos" are not sufficient or the man page is absent.

Suggest an improved  primary line for the man page or craft a quick draft.



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