Point out that -F probably does not do what the user expects.

Users attempting to create images from mtree METALOG files created by
installworld often use -F when they should be passing the METALOG file
in place of a directory. This is often produces difficult to debug
error reports.

Reviewed by:	emaste
MFC after:	1 week
Sponsored by:	DARPA, AFRL
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10038
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.Dd June 14, 2016
.Dd April 6, 2017
.Dt MAKEFS 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
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.Ar debug-mask .
XXX: document these
.It Fl F Ar mtree-specfile
.Em This is almost certainly not the option you are looking for.
To create an image from a list of files in an mtree format manifest,
specify it as the last argument on the commandline, not as a the
argument to
.Fl F .
.Pp
Use
.Ar mtree-specfile
as an