[PATCH] xfs_repair: fix exit code documentation in manpage

Eric Sandeen sandeen at redhat.com
Mon Sep 12 07:35:32 CDT 2016


xfs_repair cannot proceed with a dirty log, and exits with
a status code of 2 in that case; fix the manpage to
reflect this.

(This has been the case for years, but was never documented).

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen at redhat.com>
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diff --git a/man/man8/xfs_repair.8 b/man/man8/xfs_repair.8
index 1b4d9e3..57c970a 100644
--- a/man/man8/xfs_repair.8
+++ b/man/man8/xfs_repair.8
@@ -509,7 +509,9 @@ If the directory were small, the message would read "junking entry ...".
 will return a status of 1 if filesystem corruption was detected and
 0 if no filesystem corruption was detected.
 .B xfs_repair
-run without the \-n option will always return a status code of 0.
+run without the \-n option will return a status code of 2 if the log is
+dirty and needs to be replayed, otherwise it will always return a status
+code of 0.
 .SH BUGS
 The filesystem to be checked and repaired must have been
 unmounted cleanly using normal system administration procedures



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