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Index: sbin/newfs/newfs.8
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--- sbin/newfs/newfs.8
+++ sbin/newfs/newfs.8
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
.\" @(#)newfs.8 8.6 (Berkeley) 5/3/95
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd January 7, 2021
+.Dd April 17, 2021
.Dt NEWFS 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -291,6 +291,14 @@
.It Fl S Ar sector-size
The size of a sector in bytes (almost never anything but 512).
.El
+.Sh NOTES ON THE NAMING
+.Dq newfs
+is a common name prefix for utilities creating filesystems, with the suffix
+indicating the type of the filesystem, for instance
+.Xr newfs_msdos 8 .
+The
+.Nm
+utility is a special case which predates that convention.
.Sh EXAMPLES
.Dl newfs /dev/ada3s1a
.Pp

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