Mention -f can be used to bypass the dirty filesystem check

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/sbin/mount/mount.8 b/sbin/mount/mount.8
index 4d83a305ed6..7a4dbdd0486 100644
--- a/sbin/mount/mount.8
+++ b/sbin/mount/mount.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: mount.8,v 1.22 2000/05/30 21:57:27 deraadt Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: mount.8,v 1.23 2000/06/17 20:31:00 niklas Exp $
 .\"	$NetBSD: mount.8,v 1.11 1995/07/12 06:23:21 cgd Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1989, 1991, 1993
@@ -107,8 +107,9 @@ determine what the
 .Nm
 command is trying to do.
 .It Fl f
-Forces the revocation of write access when trying to downgrade
-a filesystem mount status from read-write to read-only.
+Either force mounting of dirty filesystems or, in the case of an
+downgrade from read-write to read-only operation, the revocation of
+opened files with write access.
 .It Fl o Ar options
 Options are specified with a
 .Fl o