From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 31 09:41:03 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AA4116A4CE for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 09:41:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from lv.raad.tartu.ee (lv.raad.tartu.ee [194.126.106.110]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E87843D2D for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 09:41:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee) Received: Message by Barricade lv.raad.tartu.ee with ESMTP id i2VHewf1016730; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 20:40:59 +0300 Message-Id: <200403311740.i2VHewf1016730@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Received: from INFO/SpoolDir by raad.tartu.ee (Mercury 1.48); 31 Mar 04 20:41:00 +0300 Received: from SpoolDir by INFO (Mercury 1.48); 31 Mar 04 20:40:52 +0300 From: "Toomas Aas" Organization: Tartu City Government To: Ron Joordens Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 20:40:48 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Priority: normal In-reply-to: <11F383396235D511994B00A0C9E1753772123B@INDEC-NTSERVER> cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: e2fsprogs install X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 17:41:03 -0000 Hi! > To have your ext2 and ext3 filesystems fsck'ed correctly without explicitly > invoking the fsck_ext2fs utility installed by this port you will need to > create links for the fsck utilities installed by this port in /sbin, e.g. > > ln -f /usr/local/sbin/fsck_ext2fs /sbin/ 2>/dev/null \ > || install -m755 /usr/local/sbin/fsck_ext2fs /sbin/ > ln -f /usr/local/sbin/e2fsck /sbin/e2fsck 2>/dev/null \ > || install -m755 /usr/local/sbin/e2fsck /sbin/e2fsck > > In particular, I assume that each of these two commands are meant to be > entered as one line, Correct. > and has been shown over two lines to fit on the page. Correct again. > I also assume that there is a symbol denoting that the command is > continued on the next line. But which one? The "\" and the end of the > first line, or the "|" at the beginning of the second line, or both? It's the \. The || is something like a shell "or" operator: "command1 || command2" means "execute command1, if that fails then execute command 2". -- Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * If Windows sucked, it would be good for something.