On Wed, Jun 05, 2024 at 12:28:45 -0400, Brad Spencer wrote: > Valery Ushakov <u...@stderr.spb.ru> writes: > > > On Wed, Jun 05, 2024 at 06:38:04 -0700, Paul Goyette wrote: > > > >> Yup, that works, even when using ``sw,dp,priority=100'' (ie, the > >> dp portion can intervene and it still works). > >> > >> Thanks - the obvious answer is the hardest to find! > > > > A sign that fstab(5) could use some clarifications. :) One can sort of > > make the necessary inferences, but explicit text (and examples) are > > better. [...] > While it may not be the most obvious, the required information is > already in swapctl(8) (at least in -current) as far as I can tell.
Exegetical exercises are nice, but perhaps we should consider the target audience of man pages to be, say, a tired, sleep-deprived admin trying to fix a system at 3am :) Abundant cross-references are helpful, even if hard(er) to maintain. -uwe
