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Authored by wosch on Mar 3 2019, 4:47 PM.
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As discussed in https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=223491 you may need to run fsck -f on a file system with a corrupt journal due a lying disk. The current man page is not clear about whats happens here. This patch adds a brief explanation.

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0mp requested changes to this revision.Mar 3 2019, 4:59 PM
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Also, please remember to bump the date of the manual page.

sbin/fsck/fsck.8
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As per style.mdoc(5) it would be better to stylize it like this:

Running
.Dq Li fsck -f
ignores ...
This revision now requires changes to proceed.Mar 3 2019, 4:59 PM

Your change looks good. I'll approve once you update the suggested mandoc refinement.

Thanks, this seems reasonable to me too.

follow style.mdoc(5) rules

OK from manpages (keep in mind I am only a ports committer ;)

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Mar 5 2019, 7:02 PM

Looks good, thanks for clarifying -f.

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