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-rw-r--r--disk-utils/fsck.815
-rw-r--r--disk-utils/fsck.c4
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/disk-utils/fsck.8 b/disk-utils/fsck.8
index 344a06fec..3bb54d50a 100644
--- a/disk-utils/fsck.8
+++ b/disk-utils/fsck.8
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ fsck \- check and repair a Linux filesystem
.RI [ fd ]]
.RB [ \-t
.IR fstype ]
-.RI [ filesys ...]
+.RI [ filesystem ...]
.RB [ \-\- ]
.RI [ fs-specific-options ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ Operational error
Usage or syntax error
.TP
.B 32
-Fsck canceled by user request
+Checking canceled by user request
.TP
.B 128
Shared-library error
@@ -225,7 +225,8 @@ with filesystems with the lowest
.I fs_passno
number being checked first.
If there are multiple filesystems with the same pass number,
-fsck will attempt to check them in parallel, although it will avoid running
+.B fsck
+will attempt to check them in parallel, although it will avoid running
multiple filesystem checks on the same physical disk.
.sp
.B fsck
@@ -264,9 +265,9 @@ skip non-existing devices.
also skips non-existing devices that have the special filesystem type
.BR auto .
.TP
-.B \-C\fR [ \fI "fd" \fR ]
+.BR \-C \ [ \fIfd\fR ]
Display completion/progress bars for those filesystem checkers (currently
-only for ext2 and ext3) which support them. Fsck will manage the
+only for ext2 and ext3) which support them. \fBfsck\fR 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 ,
@@ -306,7 +307,7 @@ that are executed.
.B fs-specific-options
Options which are not understood by
.B fsck
-are passed to the filesystem-specific checker. These arguments
+are passed to the filesystem-specific checker. These options
.B must
not take arguments, as there is no
way for
@@ -319,7 +320,7 @@ Options and arguments which follow the
are treated as filesystem-specific options to be passed to the
filesystem-specific checker.
.IP
-Please note that fsck is not
+Please note that \fBfsck\fR is not
designed to pass arbitrarily complicated options to filesystem-specific
checkers. If you're doing something complicated, please just
execute the filesystem-specific checker directly. If you pass
diff --git a/disk-utils/fsck.c b/disk-utils/fsck.c
index 16746ab14..e72d78d5b 100644
--- a/disk-utils/fsck.c
+++ b/disk-utils/fsck.c
@@ -1296,7 +1296,7 @@ static int check_all(void)
static void __attribute__((__noreturn__)) usage(void)
{
printf(_("\nUsage:\n"
- " %s [fsck-options] [fs-options] [filesys ...]\n"),
+ " %s [options] [fs-options] [<filesystem>...]\n"),
program_invocation_short_name);
puts(_( "\nOptions:\n"
@@ -1311,7 +1311,7 @@ static void __attribute__((__noreturn__)) usage(void)
" -l lock the device using flock()\n"
" -N do not execute, just show what would be done\n"
" -T do not show the title on startup\n"
- " -C <fd> display progress bar; file descriptor is for GUIs\n"
+ " -C [<fd>] display progress bar; file descriptor is for GUIs\n"
" -V explain what is being done\n"
" -? display this help and exit\n\n"
"See fsck.* commands for fs-options."));