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Update tunefs.8 and tunefs.c to clarify the optional arguments 'special' and 'filesystem'.
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Consolidate the file system / device special argument into one argument, filesystem.
Describe how tunefs searches for the filesystem or device to work with.
Note that tunefs can work with file system images.

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Thanks for your interest in the manual! Unfortunately, I don't like this at all. This adds a lot of bloat to unwind a standard syntax into a paragraph and a half. That makes people more likely to look at the manual and just decide to use chatgpt instead. We want the manual to be complete, but terse.

sbin/tunefs/tunefs.8
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Please revert proposed changes to this line. It shows that people can specify the filesystem directly as e.g. "da0" or "/dev/da0"

sbin/tunefs/tunefs.c
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Please revert proposed changes to this line.

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This syntax is so common that I took this picture at a restaurant in a small town in, Ohio, USA in December.

I don't want to discourage you, I make non-viable drafts all the time. It's an important part of research and development!