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authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2000-12-02 07:03:32 +0000
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2000-12-02 07:03:32 +0000
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ChangeLog, fsck.8.in:
fsck.8.in: Add clarification that filesystems with a fs_passno of 0 are skipped with the -A option. (Debian wishlist/bug #63442)
-rw-r--r--misc/ChangeLog4
-rw-r--r--misc/fsck.8.in9
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/misc/ChangeLog b/misc/ChangeLog
index 60ff2a9c..a51329a6 100644
--- a/misc/ChangeLog
+++ b/misc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
2000-12-02 <tytso@snap.thunk.org>
+ * fsck.8.in: Add clarification that filesystems with a fs_passno
+ of 0 are skipped with the -A option. (Debian wishlist/bug
+ #63442)
+
* fsck.c (wait_one): When we let a new fsck take control of the
console to display the progress bar, set FLAG_PROGRESS to
so that fsck knows not to start new processes during an
diff --git a/misc/fsck.8.in b/misc/fsck.8.in
index bef29f21..d26b4661 100644
--- a/misc/fsck.8.in
+++ b/misc/fsck.8.in
@@ -127,9 +127,14 @@ filesystems will be checked in the order specified by the
.I fs_passno
(the sixth) field in the
.I /etc/fstab
-file. If there are multiple filesystems with the same pass number,
+file.
+Filesystems with a
+.I fs_passno
+value of 0 are skipped and are not checked at all.
+If there are multiple filesystems with the same pass number,
e2fsck will attempt to check them in parallel, although it will avoid running
-multiple filesystem checks on the same physical disk. Hence,
+multiple filesystem checks on the same physical disk.
+Hence,
a very common configuration in
.I /etc/fstab
files is to set the root filesystem to have a