The following reply was made to PR docs/188214; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: dfil...@freebsd.org (dfilter service) To: bug-follo...@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: Re: docs/188214: commit references a PR Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 14:33:01 +0000 (UTC) Author: trhodes Date: Fri May 23 14:32:57 2014 New Revision: 266586 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/266586 Log: If called without -T or -t, fsck attempts to detect the file system type. If this fails, fsck will fail with "unknown file system type" message. PR: 188214 Modified: head/sbin/fsck/fsck.8 Modified: head/sbin/fsck/fsck.8 ============================================================================== --- head/sbin/fsck/fsck.8 Fri May 23 11:56:32 2014 (r266585) +++ head/sbin/fsck/fsck.8 Fri May 23 14:32:57 2014 (r266586) @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd January 25, 2009 +.Dd May 23, 2014 .Dt FSCK 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -111,6 +111,18 @@ The disk drive containing each file syst of the device name that ends in a digit; the remaining characters are assumed to be the partition and slice designators. .Pp +If the +.Fl t +or +.Fl T +flags are not specified, +.Nm +will attempt to determine the file system type and call the +appropriated file system check utility. +Failure to detect the file system type will cause +.Nm +to fail with a message that the partition has an unknown file system type. +.Pp The options are as follows: .Bl -tag -width indent .It Fl C _______________________________________________ svn-src-...@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-doc@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-doc-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"