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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2009-06-08 17:03:16 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2009-06-08 17:03:16 +0000
commita19207e6c155735497fd81e1873c90b634878ebb (patch)
tree84292cc1c75b2934c4ca836d74ec4c9d2360666a /share/man
parente00c2b84902baff37fa1e935a827db24ade2abe1 (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
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-rw-r--r--share/man/man5/fstab.516
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