On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 08:54:04AM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:
On 23Dec2014 18:20, Tim ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au wrote:
Going off on a tangent here, so I'm deliberately splitting a thread...
On Mon, 2014-12-22 at 10:38 +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:
Run the command: man 8 mount and see the types available for "-t" option.
The "general" part of this advice is that: you're using the "mount" command, so read the "mount" manual entry!
("mount" is an administrative command, so it is in section 8, not section 1.)
I've never come to grips with multiple docs for man, depending on such things as section numbers. And I see no difference in output between "man 8 mount" or "man mount" Granted I haven't gone the whole way through, but I've already gone deep into them, and not seen anything.
Well, "man 2 mount" details the OS system call, very different in usage from the command line.
If you set the environment variable export MANOPT="-a" or simply use that option with the man command, you'll get all available instances of 'man foo', one after the other.
I don't understand why that's not the Fedora default; it is on my systems. I put it in /etc/profile.d/bash.sh along with some other niceties that make Linux more friendly.