On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 09:22:42AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 01/29/2019 08:37 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 08:30:13AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > >>I assume "fsck.dos" is a typo as > >>[https://dyn.manpages.debian.org/jump?suite=stretch&binarypkg=dosfstools§ion=8&language=en&q=fsck.dos] > >> yields > >>"Sorry, the manpage “fsck.dos” was not found!" > > > >You have the manpages on your box, hopefully. Try "man -k fsck", and you'll > >get: > >[snip sample output] > > I avoid using "man" as I find the HTML of online pages friendlier.
Mileages tend to vary wildly. Me, I don't like HTML very much. The heavy handed markup tends to interfere with the "text-ness" I appreciate in documentation. > Also in the past I was reading man pages more frequently to chose > whether or not to install a particular package than to explore what > an installed package could do for me. > > I didn't know of the "-k" option. I haven't come across an > equivalent function online. I may not use "man" to read, but "man > -k" should be very useful for deciding which online pages I wish to > read. See also "apropos". > >>What bugs me is Gparted [though it does not output text] reports > >>used/unused space on each partition/file system. > > > >I can't grok this one: shouldn't gparted report on it? Or you don't > >expect the free space to be there? > > Gparted displays the desired data in the GUI, but I see no way to > get that information as a text stream. I need a text file for my > application. Aha. Now I understood. But am not versed enough in gparted to be able to help you :-/ Cheers -- t
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