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Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/fsck_ffs')
| -rw-r--r-- | sbin/fsck_ffs/fsck_ffs.8 | 15 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/fsck_ffs/fsck_ffs.8 b/sbin/fsck_ffs/fsck_ffs.8 index 28d8287e028..8a05f95a4f7 100644 --- a/sbin/fsck_ffs/fsck_ffs.8 +++ b/sbin/fsck_ffs/fsck_ffs.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: fsck_ffs.8,v 1.25 2015/10/14 14:33:45 deraadt Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: fsck_ffs.8,v 1.26 2016/09/01 13:48:15 otto Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: fsck_ffs.8,v 1.12 1996/09/23 16:18:34 christos Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1989, 1991, 1993 @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ .\" .\" @(#)fsck.8 8.3 (Berkeley) 11/29/94 .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: October 14 2015 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: September 1 2016 $ .Dt FSCK_FFS 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -140,7 +140,16 @@ Use the .Ar block# specified as the super block for the file system. -Block 32 is usually an alternate super block. +If the primary superblock is corrupted +.Nm +tries to find a valid alternate superblock based on the +information in the disklabel. +If that fails, a number printed by +.Nm newfs +(using +.Fl N +combined with the original flags used to create the filesystem) +can be used as a value to this argument. .It Fl c Ar level Convert the file system to the specified .Ar level . |