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| author | Gordon Bergling <gbe@FreeBSD.org> | 2020-12-06 07:38:58 +0000 |
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| committer | Gordon Bergling <gbe@FreeBSD.org> | 2020-12-06 07:38:58 +0000 |
| commit | 9f693da7ae50c7763a1581a3638ca0fe23c21a0b (patch) | |
| tree | 2c0b42437850ff812298d9a2d4ccc81defe4f91c /sbin | |
| parent | 52456632669cb3c6bbdf7cedc0975cfa26d48765 (diff) | |
| download | src-9f693da7ae50c7763a1581a3638ca0fe23c21a0b.tar.gz src-9f693da7ae50c7763a1581a3638ca0fe23c21a0b.zip | |
MFC r344922 (by wosch): explain ``fsck -f'' more in detail
PR: 223491
Approved by: mckusick, 0mp, imp
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19437
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/stable/12/; revision=368378
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin')
| -rw-r--r-- | sbin/fsck/fsck.8 | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/fsck/fsck.8 b/sbin/fsck/fsck.8 index 578817c4ddd1..48bed813ba9d 100644 --- a/sbin/fsck/fsck.8 +++ b/sbin/fsck/fsck.8 @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd October 5, 2016 +.Dd March 5, 2019 .Dt FSCK 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -142,8 +142,12 @@ only if .Nm is compiled to support it. .It Fl f -Force checking of file systems, even when they are marked clean (for file systems -that support this). +Force checking of file systems. +Running +.Dq Li fsck -f +ignores the journal and does a full +consistency check of the disk so will find and fix the errors about which the +journal is unaware. .It Fl n Causes .Nm |