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Date:      Sun, 7 Jun 2009 07:45:25 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r193625 - head/share/man/man5
Message-ID:  <200906070745.n577jPwV086106@svn.freebsd.org>

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Author: imp
Date: Sun Jun  7 07:45:25 2009
New Revision: 193625
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/193625

Log:
  I don't know why fstab doesn't document that the fifth field specifies
  the number of days between backups.  All it says is frequency, with no
  units given.  It likely should say "the interval in days between backups"
  instead, but not today.

Modified:
  head/share/man/man5/fstab.5

Modified: head/share/man/man5/fstab.5
==============================================================================
--- head/share/man/man5/fstab.5	Sun Jun  7 07:01:21 2009	(r193624)
+++ head/share/man/man5/fstab.5	Sun Jun  7 07:45:25 2009	(r193625)
@@ -198,6 +198,8 @@ command to determine which file systems 
 If the fifth field is not present, a value of zero is returned and
 .Nm dump
 will assume that the file system does not need to be dumped.
+If the fifth field is greater than 0, then it specifies the number of days
+between dumps for this file system.
 .Pp
 The sixth field,
 .Pq Fa fs_passno ,



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