bin/87651: [patch] fsck(8) (on superblock error) tells wrong man page reference

Rob Lahaye rob at lahaye.dds.nl
Wed Oct 19 18:50:20 PDT 2005


The following reply was made to PR bin/87651; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Rob Lahaye <rob at lahaye.dds.nl>
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Subject: Re: bin/87651: [patch] fsck(8) (on superblock error) tells wrong
 man page reference
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 10:40:03 +0900

 > When fsck encounters a superblock error, it
 > says:
 > ----------------------------------------
 > SEARCH FOR ALTERNATE SUPER-BLOCK FAILED.
 > YOU MUST USE THE -b OPTION TO FSCK TO SPECIFY
 > THE LOCATION OF AN ALTERNATE SUPER-BLOCK TO
 > SUPPLY NEEDED INFORMATION; SEE fsck(8).
 > ----------------------------------------
 > 
 > But referring to "fsck(8)" is wrong (there
 > is no -b option !!).
 > Instead this should be changed into
 >  "fsck_ffs(8)".
 
 Also change
 
   YOU MUST USE THE -b OPTION TO FSCK TO SPECIFY
 
 into
 
   YOU MUST USE THE -b OPTION TO FSCK_FFS TO SPECIFY
 
 R.


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