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| author | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2005-12-09 18:18:06 -0500 |
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| committer | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2005-12-09 18:18:06 -0500 |
| commit | bba44f956e4ddb81dbc444d1f973603a69d2d3fa (patch) | |
| tree | 24e8d5c285f83a69b31781ed6acb42286565bc2a | |
| parent | ae1182cb8442c73e561290fbf79fd52346703987 (diff) | |
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Clarify the e2fsck man page regarding the -c option
A user was confused about whether or not e2fsck -c performed a destructive
test on the filesystem, since it stated that -cc resulted in a non-destructive
read/write test. Clarify that -c does a read/only test.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
| -rw-r--r-- | e2fsck/ChangeLog | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | e2fsck/e2fsck.8.in | 9 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/e2fsck/ChangeLog b/e2fsck/ChangeLog index 5ee9390b..be26eb2d 100644 --- a/e2fsck/ChangeLog +++ b/e2fsck/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,8 @@ 2005-12-09 Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> + * e2fsck.8.in: Clarify that e2fsck -c does a read-only scan of the + device. + * unix.c (PRS): Fix typo in error message; thanks to Solar Designer for pointing out the missing preposition. (check_mount): Don't let the user run e2fsck -ccn on the diff --git a/e2fsck/e2fsck.8.in b/e2fsck/e2fsck.8.in index 40a9358a..496d2d51 100644 --- a/e2fsck/e2fsck.8.in +++ b/e2fsck/e2fsck.8.in @@ -123,11 +123,12 @@ will terminate with a fatal error. .B \-c This option causes .B e2fsck -to run the +to use .BR badblocks (8) -program to find any blocks which are bad on the filesystem, -and then marks them as bad by adding them to the bad block inode. -If this option is specified twice, then the bad block scan will be done +program to do a read-only scan of the device in order to find any bad +blocks. If any bad blocks are found, they are added to the bad block +inode to prevent them from being allocated to a file or directory. If +this option is specified twice, then the bad block scan will be done using a non-destructive read-write test. .TP .BI \-C " fd" |