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Subject: Re: fsck woes: no '-b' option?
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On 10/18/05, darren david <darren@3x3x3.org> wrote:
> SEARCH FOR ALTERNATE SUPER-BLOCK FAILED. YOU MUST USE THE
> -b OPTION TO FSCK TO SPECIFY THE LOCATION OF AN ALTERNATE
> SUPER-BLOCK TO SUPPLY NEEDED INFORMATION; SEE fsck(8).
>
>
> ----
>
> this is all well and good, but according to 'man 8 fsck', there is no
> '-b' option. any thoughts on way around this? I'm running on 5.4-STABLE.

It looks like the fsck man page needs to be clarified, and the fsck
output needs to be modified. What is actually telling you to use -b is
"fsck_ffs".