On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 08:59:25PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> Log Message:
> There really isn't any point reporting all the alternate superblocks,
> big filesystems can have thousands of them - no one ever writes them down.
> After the first line of numbers just output a '.' for each cylinder group.
> Also limit the lines to 79 columns so broken terminal emulaters don't
> double-space the output lines.

What about an option -P to print a progess bar instead? As you wrote --
no average user cares to write them down, so even the first 9 are not
that useful. A progress bar on the other hand would give a good
indication of how far the newfs is.

Joerg