+2005-04-16 Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
+
+ * e2fsck.8.in: Fix spelling mistakes in man pages. (Addresses
+ Debian Bugs: #304593)
+
2005-04-14 Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
* pass1b.c (pass1d): Don't offer to clone or delete the resize
is used to check a Linux second extended file system (ext2fs).
.B E2fsck
also
-supports ext2 filesystems countaining a journal, which are
+supports ext2 filesystems containing a journal, which are
also sometimes known as ext3 filesystems, by first applying the journal
to the filesystem before continuing with normal
.B e2fsck
Ideally, include a complete transcript of the
.B e2fsck
run, so I can see exactly what error messages are displayed. If you
-have a writeable filesystem where the transcript can be stored, the
+have a writable filesystem where the transcript can be stored, the
.BR script (1)
program is a handy way to save the output of
.B e2fsck
+2005-04-16 Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
+
+ * badblocks.8.in, dumpe2fs.8.in, fsck.8.in, tune2fs.8.in: Fix
+ spelling mistakes in man pages. (Addresses Debian Bugs:
+ #304591, #304592, #304594, #304597)
+
2005-04-09 Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
* filefrag.c (frag_report): Don't abort filefrag if
Normally, badblocks will refuse to do a read/write or a non-destructive
test on a device which is mounted, since either can cause the system to
potentially crash and/or damage the filesystem even if it is mounted
-read-only. This can be overriden using the
+read-only. This can be overridden using the
.B \-f
flag, but should almost never be used --- if you think you're smarter
than the
"random", which specifies that the block should be filled with a random
bit pattern.
For read/write (\fB-w\fR) and non-destructive (\fB-n\fR) modes,
-one or more test patterns may be specified by specifiying the
+one or more test patterns may be specified by specifying the
.B -t
option for each test pattern desired. For
read-only mode only a single pattern may be specified and it may not be
.I superblock
when examining the filesystem.
This option is not usually needed except by a filesystem wizard who
-is examining the remains of a very badly corupted filesystem.
+is examining the remains of a very badly corrupted filesystem.
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.BI \-oB " blocksize"
use blocks of
.I blocksize
bytes when examining the filesystem.
This option is not usually needed except by a filesystem wizard who
-is examining the remains of a very badly corupted filesystem.
+is examining the remains of a very badly corrupted filesystem.
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.B \-f
force dumpe2fs to display a filesystem even though it may have some
file and try to check all file systems in one run. This option is
typically used from the
.I /etc/rc
-system initalization file, instead of multiple commands for checking
+system initialization file, instead of multiple commands for checking
a single file system.
.sp
The root filesystem will be checked first unless the
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.BR \-o " [^]\fImount-option\fR[,...]"
Set or clear the indicated default mount options in the filesystem.
-Default mount options can be overriden by mount options specified
+Default mount options can be overridden by mount options specified
either in
.BR /etc/fstab (5)
or on the command line arguments to
Emulate BSD behaviour when creating new files: they will take the group-id
of the directory in which they were created. The standard System V behaviour
is the default, where newly created files take on the fsgid of the current
-process, unless the directry has the setgid bit set, in which case it takes
+process, unless the directory has the setgid bit set, in which case it takes
the gid from the parent directory, and also gets the setgid bit set if it is
directory itself.
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