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# 267654 19-Jun-2014 gjb

Copy stable/9 to releng/9.3 as part of the 9.3-RELEASE cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

# 253155 10-Jul-2013 des

MFH (r250056,r250057): add -Z option to zero unused blocks.


# 225736 22-Sep-2011 kensmith

Copy head to stable/9 as part of 9.0-RELEASE release cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)


# 221233 29-Apr-2011 des

Add an -E option to mirror newfs's. The idea is that if you have a system
that was built before ffs grew support for TRIM, your filesystem will have
plenty of free blocks that the flash chip doesn't know are free, so it
can't take advantage of them for wear leveling. Once you've upgraded your
kernel, you enable TRIM on the filesystem (tunefs -t enable), then run
fsck_ffs -E on it before mounting it.

I tested this patch by half-filling an mdconfig'ed filesystem image,
running fsck_ffs -E on it, then verifying that the contents were not
damaged by comparing them to a pristine copy using rsync's checksum
functionality. There is no reliable way to test it on real hardware.

Many thanks to mckusick@, who provided the tricky parts of this patch and
reviewed the final version.

Reviewed by: mckusick@
MFC after: 3 weeks


# 221108 27-Apr-2011 des

Fix boo-boo in previous commit.

MFC after: 3 weeks


# 221107 27-Apr-2011 des

Alphabetize the options. No date bump since no actual change to the text.

MFC after: 3 weeks


# 211397 16-Aug-2010 joel

Fix typos, spelling, formatting and mdoc mistakes found by Nobuyuki while
translating these manual pages. Minor corrections by me.

Submitted by: Nobuyuki Koganemaru <n-kogane@syd.odn.ne.jp>


# 210933 06-Aug-2010 joel

Fix typos and spelling mistakes.


# 210415 23-Jul-2010 mckusick

Note that foreground fsck should be run after a filesystem related panic.

Suggested by: Mikhail Teterin (mi@)
MFC after: 1 week


# 188110 03-Feb-2009 mckusick

Update the actions previously attempted by the -D option to make them
robust. With these changes fsck is now able to detect and reliably
rebuild corrupted cylinder group maps. The -D option is no longer
necessary as it has been replaced by a prompt asking whether the
corrupted cylinder group should be rebuilt and doing so when requested.
These actions are only offered and taken when running fsck in manual
mode. Corrupted cylinder groups found during preen mode cause the fsck
to fail.

Add the -r option to free up excess unused inodes. Decreasing the
number of preallocated inodes reduces the running time of future
runs of fsck and frees up space that can allocated to files. The -r
option is ignored when running in preen mode.

Reviewed by: Xin LI <delphij@>
Sponsored by: Rsync.net


# 187931 30-Jan-2009 obrien

Add the '-C' "check clean" flag. If the FS is marked clean, skip file
system checking. However, if the file system is not clean, perform a
full fsck.

Reviewed by: delphij
Obtained from: Juniper Networks


# 187501 20-Jan-2009 delphij

Rename option 'C' to 'D' (damaged) in order to avoid a conflict with upcoming
Juniper 'C' (clean) flag.

Requested by: obrien
MFC after: 1 week


# 187079 12-Jan-2009 delphij

Fix typo.

Submitted by: Ben Kaduk <minimarmot gmail com>
MFC after: 3 days


# 183110 17-Sep-2008 remko

Document the -F 's return statement.
If the application returns succesfully
the return code is 7 (which means the
filesystem is clean).

PR: 127432
Submitted by: edwin
MFC after: 3 days


# 178088 10-Apr-2008 delphij

Add a new flag, '-C' which enables a special mode that is intended for
catastrophic recovery. Currently, this mode only validates whether a
cylindergroup has good signature data, and prompts the user to decide
whether to clear it as a whole.

This mode is useful when there is data damage on a disk and you are
working on copy of the original disk, as fsck_ffs(8) tends to abnormally
exit in such case, as a last resort to recover data from the disk.


# 150365 20-Sep-2005 delphij

Mention the default location of alternative super block on a
UFS2 file system, in fsck_ffs(8).

Submitted by: KOMATSU Shinichiro <koma2 at lovepeers ! org>
PR: docs/86362
MFC After: 3 days


# 141611 10-Feb-2005 ru

Sync program's usage() with manpage's SYNOPSIS.


# 140368 17-Jan-2005 ru

Added the EXIT STATUS section where appropriate.


# 131488 02-Jul-2004 ru

Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks.


# 128073 09-Apr-2004 markm

Remove advertising clause from University of California Regent's license,
per letter dated July 22, 1999.

Approved by: core, imp


# 107788 12-Dec-2002 ru

Uniformly refer to a file system as "file system".

Approved by: re


# 102464 26-Aug-2002 trhodes

Fix some 'SYNOPSIS' and 'usage' messages.


# 102231 21-Aug-2002 trhodes

s/filesystem/file system/g as discussed on -developers


# 87360 04-Dec-2001 ru

mdoc(7) police: section 1 and 8 manpages document their exit
codes under the DIAGNOSTICS section, not RETURN VALUES, which
is for section 2, 3, and 9 manpages.


# 87328 04-Dec-2001 obrien

Actually I haven't enumerated the return values yet (thats why I hadn't
committed it yet). So vague'ize the wording a little bit to make up
for it.


# 87327 04-Dec-2001 obrien

Revision 1.23 wasn't about WARNS, but rather be a more verbose about
informing of the return values.


# 87325 04-Dec-2001 obrien

Default to WARNS=2.
Binary builds that cannot handle this must explicitly set WARNS=0.

Reviewed by: mike


# 79754 15-Jul-2001 dd

Remove whitespace at EOL.


# 76063 27-Apr-2001 ru

mdoc(7) police:
document date updated, removed history info from the .Os call, cosmetics.


# 75927 24-Apr-2001 mckusick

Add support for the -F flag which determines whether a specified
filesystem needs foreground checking (usually at boot time) or
can defer to background checking (after the system is up and running).
See the manual page, fsck_ffs(8), for details on the -F and -B options.
These options are primarily intended for use by the fsck front end.

All output is directed to stdout so that the output is coherent
when redirected to a file or a pipe. Unify the code with the fsck
front end that allows either a device or a mount point to be
specified as the argument to be checked.


# 75545 16-Apr-2001 ru

mdoc(7) police: prepare for mdocNG.


# 72417 12-Feb-2001 nik

Use ".Nm fsck_ffs", so that this turns up in whatis(1), and others.
Add .Xr to fsck.

Prompted by: JM Jr's script that shows binaries with no whatis info
Reviewed by: adrian


# 70633 03-Jan-2001 iedowse

Document fsck_ffs's new SIGINFO handler.

Reviewed by: sheldonh


# 70152 18-Dec-2000 ru

Prepare for mdoc(7)NG.


# 68960 20-Nov-2000 ru

mdoc(7) police: use the new features of the Nm macro.


# 50476 27-Aug-1999 peter

$Id$ -> $FreeBSD$


# 41477 03-Dec-1998 julian

Cosmetic and documentation changes brought from earlier FreeBSD versions.
(e.g. RCS Id:)


# 41474 03-Dec-1998 julian

Reviewed by: Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>
Submitted by: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@McKusick.COM>
Obtained from: Mckusick, BSDI and a host of others

This exactly matches Kirks sources imported under the
Tag MCKUSICK2. These are as supplied by kirk with one small
change needed to compile under freeBSD.

Some FreeBSD patches will be added back, though many have been
added to Kirk's sources already.


# 37000 15-Jun-1998 charnier

Correct use of .Nm. Add rcsid. Remove unused #includes. Use err(3).


# 23794 12-Mar-1997 bde

Restored lost reference to fsdb(8).

Fixed weird quoting of $Id$.


# 23675 11-Mar-1997 peter

Merge from Lite2. Note that Lite2 has it's own filesystem clean check
skipping code that overrides ours sooner. One should be eliminated,
but for now it works.


# 22990 22-Feb-1997 peter

Revert $FreeBSD$ to $Id$


# 21673 14-Jan-1997 jkh

Make the long-awaited change from $Id$ to $FreeBSD$

This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.

Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.


# 21635 12-Jan-1997 wosch

Sort cross references.


# 18808 08-Oct-1996 guido

Fix the case where fsck would not see sparse directories and the kernel would
panic. If such a thing is fixed fsck needs a rerun (and bugs the user to do
so).

Reviewed by: Kirk McKusick


# 13922 05-Feb-1996 mpp

Correct some man page cross references and some file
locations.


# 7106 17-Mar-1995 phk

Remove reference to fsdb(8). We don't have it.


# 2153 20-Aug-1994 dg

Added filesystem clean bit support. This only affects fsck during a
preen (-p), and in that case the filesystem is skipped if it is clean.
A new flag "-f" for 'force' has been added which basically gives back
the old behavior of checking all the filesystems all the time. This
very closely models the behavior of SunOS and Ultrix.


# 1558 26-May-1994 rgrimes

BSD 4.4 Lite sbin Sources

Note: XNSrouted and routed NOT imported here, they shall be imported with
usr.sbin.