bin/82720: <[patch] Incorrect help output from growfs.c and mkfs.c>

[David D.W. Downey]

The following reply was made to PR bin/82720; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "David D.W. Downey" <pgpkeys at pgpkeys.net>
To: <bug-followup at FreeBSD.org>
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bin/82720: <[patch] Incorrect help output from growfs.c and mkfs.c>
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 04:02:27 -0400

 For the record,
 
 My rationale behind setting the Priority to serious is that if you do not
 know about fsck_ffs (which can be expected since the default and most known
 tool is fsck) then you will run into the issue of not knowing what to do to
 repair the broken system.
 
 Case in point, I ran into this problem when a -CURRENT system was unable to
 repair the default superblock. It kept spitting out FREE BLOK COUNT(S) WRONG
 IN SUPERBLOCK. SALVAGE? [no]. Needless to say I spent probably 45 minutes
 digging through the man pages such as fsck, bread, sbread, sbwrite, several
 lib pages, et cetera trying to figure out how to find info about the next
 superblock in order to fix the situation.
 
 Now I'm just one person. Think of the affect on say just 5,000 people
 worldwide with this issue, finally finding newfs only to find out the
 information it gives is incorrect. Now add in the fact there's no mention of
 fsck_ffs which _is_ the right tool to fix the SB using the SB info spit out
 by newfs. There's no logical connection to the correct tool, leaving people
 stranded. Small item, this patch, but big help for administrative flow and
 repair.
 
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 David D.W. Downey