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authorSami Kerola2011-09-17 21:11:51 +0200
committerSami Kerola2011-10-03 20:05:52 +0200
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docs: fix return value table in fsck.8
Commint also has few alignments with howto-man-page.txt Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
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diff --git a/fsck/fsck.8 b/fsck/fsck.8
index c10bcba41..d360df147 100644
--- a/fsck/fsck.8
+++ b/fsck/fsck.8
@@ -43,23 +43,36 @@ options.
The exit code returned by
.B fsck
is the sum of the following conditions:
-.br
-\ 0\ \-\ No errors
-.br
-\ 1\ \-\ Filesystem errors corrected
-.br
-\ 2\ \-\ System should be rebooted
-.br
-\ 4\ \-\ Filesystem errors left uncorrected
-.br
-\ 8\ \-\ Operational error
-.br
-\ 16\ \-\ Usage or syntax error
-.br
-\ 32\ \-\ Fsck canceled by user request
-.br
-\ 128\ \-\ Shared-library error
-.br
+.PP
+.RS
+.PD 0
+.TP
+.B 0
+No errors
+.TP
+.B 1
+Filesystem errors corrected
+.TP
+.B 2
+System should be rebooted
+.TP
+.B 4
+Filesystem errors left uncorrected
+.TP
+.B 8
+Operational error
+.TP
+.B 16
+Usage or syntax error
+.TP
+.B 32
+Fsck canceled by user request
+.TP
+.B 128
+Shared-library error
+.PD
+.RE
+.PP
The exit code returned when multiple filesystems are checked
is the bit-wise OR of the exit codes for each
filesystem that is checked.
@@ -241,8 +254,7 @@ may be used to have
skip non-existing devices.
.B fsck
also skips non-existing devices that have the special filesystem type
-.B auto
-.
+.BR auto .
.TP
.B \-C\fR [ \fI "fd" \fR ]
Display completion/progress bars for those filesystem checkers (currently
@@ -365,10 +377,14 @@ do not support the
.B -y
option as of this writing.
.SH AUTHOR
-Theodore Ts'o (tytso@mit.edu)
+.UR tytso\@mit.edu
+Theodore Ts'o
+.UE
.SH AVAILABILITY
The fsck command is part of the util-linux package and is available from
-ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
+.UR ftp://\:ftp.kernel.org\:/pub\:/linux\:/utils\:/util-linux/
+Linux Kernel Archive
+.UE .
.SH FILES
.IR /etc/fstab .
.SH ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES