Fix a minor spelling typo in blkid's man page, and update e2fsck's REPORTING

BUGS section to request that e2fsck's messages printed in English, and to
send a raw e2image filesystem dump if possible.

diff --git a/e2fsck/ChangeLog b/e2fsck/ChangeLog
index 0288b8c..9e18b72 100644 (file)
--- a/e2fsck/ChangeLog
+++ b/e2fsck/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2005-06-05  Theodore Ts'o  <tytso@mit.edu>
+
+       * e2fsck.8.in: Add a request to the REPORTING BUGS section of the
+               man page to make sure that e2fsck's messages are printed
+               in English, and to send a raw e2image filesystem dump if
+               possible.
+
 2005-05-05  Theodore Ts'o  <tytso@mit.edu>
 
        * badblocks.c (check_bb_inode_blocks): Clean up warning printf.

diff --git a/e2fsck/e2fsck.8.in b/e2fsck/e2fsck.8.in
index 477d349..c1b63b6 100644 (file)
--- a/e2fsck/e2fsck.8.in
+++ b/e2fsck/e2fsck.8.in
@@ -292,7 +292,18 @@ is unable to repair, please report it to the author.
 Please include as much information as possible in your bug report.
 Ideally, include a complete transcript of the
 .B e2fsck
-run, so I can see exactly what error messages are displayed.  If you
+run, so I can see exactly what error messages are displayed.  (Make sure
+the messages printed by 
+.B e2fsck 
+are in English; if your system has been
+configured so that 
+.BR e2fsck 's
+messages have been translated into another language, please set the the
+.B LC_ALL
+environment variable to
+.B C
+so that the transcript of e2fsck's output will be useful to me.)
+If you
 have a writable filesystem where the transcript can be stored, the 
 .BR script (1)
 program is a handy way to save the output of
@@ -312,7 +323,13 @@ command run on the relevant inode(s).  If the inode is a directory, the
 .I dump
 command will allow you to extract the contents of the directory inode,
 which can sent to me after being first run through
-.BR uuencode (1).
+.BR uuencode (1).  
+The most useful data you can send to help reproduce
+the bug is a compressed raw image dump of the filesyste, generated using
+.BR e2image (8).
+See the 
+.BR e2image (8)
+man page for more details.
 .PP
 Always include the full version string which 
 .B e2fsck
@@ -325,4 +342,5 @@ was written by Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>.
 .BR mke2fs (8),
 .BR tune2fs (8),
 .BR dumpe2fs (8),
-.BR debugfs (8)
+.BR debugfs (8),
+.BR e2image (8)

diff --git a/misc/ChangeLog b/misc/ChangeLog
index b90715d..ec60319 100644 (file)
--- a/misc/ChangeLog
+++ b/misc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2005-06-05  Theodore Ts'o  <tytso@mit.edu>
+
+       * blkid.8.in: Minor spelling fix.
+
 2005-05-29  Theodore Ts'o  <tytso@mit.edu>
 
        * util.c (check_mount): Check the new EXT2_MF_BUSY flag to

diff --git a/misc/blkid.8.in b/misc/blkid.8.in
index f1effe1..7050037 100644 (file)
--- a/misc/blkid.8.in
+++ b/misc/blkid.8.in
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ scanned but not necessarily available at this time), specify
 Display a usage message and exit.
 .TP
 .B \-l
-Lookup the device that matches the search parameter specified using
+Look up the device that matches the search parameter specified using
 the 
 .B \-t
 option, assuming that there is only one matching the search parameter.