Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 17:07:21 -0800 (PST) From: Ashley Penney <ashp@unloved.org> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: docs/33043: Minor changes to Chapter 3 of the handbook. Message-ID: <200112210107.fBL17Lm10937@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 33043
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: Minor changes to Chapter 3 of the handbook.
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Dec 20 17:10:00 PST 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Ashley Penney
>Release: N/A
>Organization:
N/A
>Environment:
>Description:
I felt the documentation in 3.4.1 for the fstab fields wasn't as complete towards the end as it should be, two entries were rolled into one.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
--- chapter.sgml.old Thu Dec 20 20:00:39 2001
+++ chapter.sgml Thu Dec 20 20:06:14 2001
@@ -535,10 +535,19 @@
<varlistentry>
<term><literal>dumpfreq</literal></term>
- <listitem><para>The number of days the filesystem should be
- dumped, and <literal>passno</literal> is the pass number
- during which the filesystem is checked during the boot
- sequence.</para>
+ <listitem><para>This is used by dump to determine which
+ filesystems require dumping. If the field is missing,
+ a value of zero is assumed.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><literal>passno</literal></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>This determines the order in which filesystems
+ should be checked. The root filesystem should be set to one,
+ other filesystems to two, and filesystems that should be
+ skipped set to zero.
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
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