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| author | Ludwig Nussel | 2009-11-27 11:51:42 +0100 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2009-12-01 12:21:10 +0100 |
| commit | 0779255c1392b0f29874c384b4dae426e0449773 (patch) | |
| tree | d255f1ad342c5a054b502c6f89f229e46152833f /fsck/fsck.8 | |
| parent | mount: add ubifs to the mount.8 man page (diff) | |
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fsck: document fsck behavior wrt nofail option and fstype 'auto'
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diff --git a/fsck/fsck.8 b/fsck/fsck.8 index ea0321cc0..fd1e7e23b 100644 --- a/fsck/fsck.8 +++ b/fsck/fsck.8 @@ -215,6 +215,22 @@ not to use this configuration if they need to avoid multiple filesystem checks running in parallel for some reason --- for example, if the machine in question is short on memory so that excessive paging is a concern. +.sp +.B fsck +normally does not check whether the device actually exists before +calling a file system specific checker. Therefore non-existing +devices may cause the system to enter file system repair mode during +boot if the filesystem specific checker returns a fatal error. The +.B /etc/fstab +mount option +.B nofail +may be used to have +.B fsck +skip non-existing devices. +.B fsck +also skips non-existing devices that have the special file system type +.B auto +. .TP .B \-C\fR [ \fI "fd" \fR ] Display completion/progress bars for those filesystem checkers (currently |