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| author | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2005-05-05 23:15:55 -0400 |
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| committer | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2005-05-05 23:15:55 -0400 |
| commit | f37ab68a26bacf4f5cc7643b8373e40292b7682a (patch) | |
| tree | 2e34051258ebf1fa104c00facfe2f7e18237f3fc /misc/fsck.8.in | |
| parent | d0a3b46ca0f61815223feb1ddfa387c348c17a86 (diff) | |
| download | e2fsprogs-f37ab68a26bacf4f5cc7643b8373e40292b7682a.tar.gz | |
Corrects a few mistakes in the fsck man page, wraps two overlong lines,
and changes "bad" to "invalid" in some messages to avoid confusion with
"bad blocks" in the e2fsck, mke2fs, and badblocks programs. Thanks to
Benno Schulenberg. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1189803)
Diffstat (limited to 'misc/fsck.8.in')
| -rw-r--r-- | misc/fsck.8.in | 15 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/misc/fsck.8.in b/misc/fsck.8.in index c6babcc6..f7bad726 100644 --- a/misc/fsck.8.in +++ b/misc/fsck.8.in @@ -36,8 +36,9 @@ or an ext2 label or UUID specifier (e.g. UUID=8868abf6-88c5-4a83-98b8-bfc24057f7bd or LABEL=root). Normally, the .B fsck -program will try to run filesystems on different physical disk drives -in parallel to reduce total amount time to check all of the filesystems. +program will try to handle filesystems on different physical disk drives +in parallel to reduce the total amount of time needed to check all of the +filesystems. .PP If no filesystems are specified on the command line, and the .B \-A @@ -45,7 +46,7 @@ option is not specified, .B fsck will default to checking filesystems in .B /etc/fstab -serial. This is equivalent to the +serially. This is equivalent to the .B \-As options. .PP @@ -127,7 +128,7 @@ in .I fslist will be checked. .sp -Options specifiers may be included in the comma separated +Options specifiers may be included in the comma-separated .IR fslist . They must have the format .BI opts= fs-option\fR. @@ -213,7 +214,7 @@ Hence, a very common configuration in files is to set the root filesystem to have a .I fs_passno value of 1 -and to set all filesystems to have a +and to set all other filesystems to have a .I fs_passno value of 2. This will allow .B fsck @@ -230,7 +231,7 @@ only for ext2 and ext3) which support them. Fsck will manage the filesystem checkers so that only one of them will display a progress bar at a time. GUI front-ends may specify a file descriptor .IR fd , -in which case the progress bar information will be sent that file descriptor. +in which case the progress bar information will be sent to that file descriptor. .TP .B \-N Don't execute, just show what would be done. @@ -388,7 +389,7 @@ environment are searched. This environment variable allows the system administrator to override the standard location of the .B /etc/fstab -file. It is also use for developers who are testing +file. It is also useful for developers who are testing .BR fsck . .SH SEE ALSO .BR fstab (5), |