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author | Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2009-06-08 17:03:16 +0000 |
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committer | Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2009-06-08 17:03:16 +0000 |
commit | a19207e6c155735497fd81e1873c90b634878ebb (patch) | |
tree | 84292cc1c75b2934c4ca836d74ec4c9d2360666a /share/man | |
parent | e00c2b84902baff37fa1e935a827db24ade2abe1 (diff) |
improve the description of fs_freq;
prompted by a fix from Warner Losh, freebsd -r193625,
but i chose a different fix;
help/ok otto
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man')
-rw-r--r-- | share/man/man5/fstab.5 | 16 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man5/fstab.5 b/share/man/man5/fstab.5 index ebe358b3378..86b295b0835 100644 --- a/share/man/man5/fstab.5 +++ b/share/man/man5/fstab.5 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: fstab.5,v 1.41 2007/09/08 09:03:43 henning Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: fstab.5,v 1.42 2009/06/08 17:03:15 jmc Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: fstab.5,v 1.5.2.1 1995/11/16 20:11:11 pk Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1989, 1991, 1993 @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ .\" .\" @(#)fstab.5 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93 .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: September 8 2007 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: June 8 2009 $ .Dt FSTAB 5 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -211,10 +211,16 @@ This is useful to show disk partitions which are currently unused. .Pp The fifth field, .Fa fs_freq , -is used for these filesystems by the +is used by the +.Fl W +and +.Fl w +options of .Xr dump 8 -command to determine which filesystems need to be dumped. -If the fifth field is not present, a value of zero is returned and +to recommend which filesystems should be backed up. +The value specifies the number of days +after which a dump is regarded as being old; +if it is not present, a value of zero is returned and .Xr dump 8 will assume that the filesystem does not need to be dumped. .Pp |