Document the -X flag in the badblocks man page

Addresses Debian Bug: #379695

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

diff --git a/misc/ChangeLog b/misc/ChangeLog
index 9a9cd1b067f35499d952e0a1238857d5a4fb9560..eff4f81aa305a7572f8e0ee5fb156179a3d2c2dc 100644 (file)
--- a/misc/ChangeLog
+++ b/misc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2007-04-02  Theodore Tso  <tytso@mit.edu>
+
+       * badblocks.8.in: Document the -X flag.  
+               (Addresses Debian Bug: #379695)
+
 2007-03-28  Theodore Tso  <tytso@mit.edu>
 
        * util.c (parse_journal_opts): Fix memory leak

diff --git a/misc/badblocks.8.in b/misc/badblocks.8.in
index 1719db2b4b47edc48de50ece14cd8f3606c28085..47488100a40a2342df63fa5ec294de50fd7b5925 100644 (file)
--- a/misc/badblocks.8.in
+++ b/misc/badblocks.8.in
@@ -168,6 +168,13 @@ every block of the device, reading every block and comparing the contents.
 This option may not be combined with the 
 .B \-n 
 option, as they are mutually exclusive.
+.TP
+.B \-X
+Internal flag only to be used by
+.BR e2fsck (8)
+and
+.BR mke2fs (8).
+It bypasses the exclusive mode in-use device safety check.
 .SH WARNING
 Never use the
 .B \-w