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fsck: document fsck behavior wrt nofail option and fstype 'auto'

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Ludwig Nussel 2009-11-27 11:51:42 +01:00 committed by Karel Zak
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@ -215,6 +215,22 @@ not to use this configuration if they need to avoid multiple filesystem
checks running in parallel for some reason --- for example, if the
machine in question is short on memory so that
excessive paging is a concern.
.sp
.B fsck
normally does not check whether the device actually exists before
calling a file system specific checker. Therefore non-existing
devices may cause the system to enter file system repair mode during
boot if the filesystem specific checker returns a fatal error. The
.B /etc/fstab
mount option
.B nofail
may be used to have
.B fsck
skip non-existing devices.
.B fsck
also skips non-existing devices that have the special file system type
.B auto
.
.TP
.B \-C\fR [ \fI "fd" \fR ]
Display completion/progress bars for those filesystem checkers (currently