"#. it can expand to either the string \"indirect block\" (possibly preceded\n",
"#. by the word \"double\" or \"triple\"), or the string \"block #\" immediately\n",
"#. followed by an integer indicating a block sequence number.\n",
- "#. \n",
+ "#.\n",
+ "#. Please note that the %-expansion for most e2fsck's problem.c should not\n",
+ "#. use positional indicators such as %1$c, since although they look like c-style\n",
+ "#. format strings, they are NOT c-style format strings, and the positional\n",
+ "#. indicators (which BTW are GNU extensions and so won't work on other Unix\n",
+ "#. gettext implementations) won't work with e2fsck's print_e2fsck_message()\n",
+ "#. function found in e2fsck/message.c\n",
+ "#.\n",
"#. %b <blk> block number\n",
"#. %B \"indirect block\" | \"block #\"<blkcount> string | string+integer\n",
"#. %c <blk2> block number\n",