Fixed chattr man page to clarify description of the 't' (no tail)

attribute.

3 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index b8dfedd2..0fe9fbb1 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ Mke2fs no longer creates filesystems with the dir_index flag set by
 default; the user has to specifically request it.
 
 Update and clarified various man pages. (Addresses Debian bugs
-#173612, #175233, #175113, and #170497)
+#173612, #175233, #175113, and #170497, #185945)
 
 Created man page for the mk_cmds program (from the libss library).
 
diff --git a/misc/ChangeLog b/misc/ChangeLog
index 4c8ce6e7..f5e0de77 100644
--- a/misc/ChangeLog
+++ b/misc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2003-03-25  Theodore Ts'o  <tytso@mit.edu>
+
+	* chattr.1.in: Clarified the description of the 't' (no tail) 
+		attribute.  (Addresses Debian bug #185945)
+
 2003-03-14  Theodore Ts'o  <tytso@mit.edu>
 
 	* fsck.c: And #ifdef protection around #include of malloc.h
diff --git a/misc/chattr.1.in b/misc/chattr.1.in
index ed9e64b0..a2957b47 100644
--- a/misc/chattr.1.in
+++ b/misc/chattr.1.in
@@ -101,10 +101,11 @@ directory hierarchies for the purposes of the Orlov block allocator
 (which is used in on systems with Linux 2.5.46 or later).
 .PP
 A file with the 't' attribute will not have a partial block fragment at
-the of the file merged with other files (for those filesystems which
+the end of the file merged with other files (for those filesystems which
 support tail-merging).  This is necessary for applications such as LILO 
-which read the filesystem directly, and who don't understand tail-merged
-files.
+which read the filesystem directly, and which don't understand tail-merged
+files.  Note: As of this writing, the ext2 or ext3 filesystems do not
+(yet, except in very experimental patches) support tail-merging.
 .PP
 When a file with the `u' attribute set is deleted, its contents are saved.
 This allows the user to ask for its undeletion.