ChangeLog, fsck.8.in:

  fsck.8.in: Add explicit language to describe how options get passed to
  	filesystem-specific checkers.

diff --git a/misc/ChangeLog b/misc/ChangeLog
index c83c340..4106265 100644 (file)
--- a/misc/ChangeLog
+++ b/misc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2001-05-05  Theodore Tso  <tytso@valinux.com>
 
+       * fsck.8.in: Add explicit language to describe how options get
+               passed to filesystem-specific checkers.
+
        * badblocks.8.in: Fixed man page to describe the first optional
                parameter to badblocks as last_block, instead of
                num_blocks.  (Debian bug #87216)

diff --git a/misc/fsck.8.in b/misc/fsck.8.in
index d26b466..9d3eaff 100644 (file)
--- a/misc/fsck.8.in
+++ b/misc/fsck.8.in
@@ -183,12 +183,32 @@ Produce verbose output, including all file system-specific commands
 that are executed.
 .TP
 .B fsck-options
-Any options which are not understood by 
-.BR fsck ,
-or which follow the
+Options which which are not understood by 
+.B fsck 
+are passed to the filesystem-specific checker.  These arguments
+.B must
+not take arguments, as there is no
+way for 
+.B fsck
+to be able to properly guess which arguments take options and which
+don't.
+.IP
+Options and arguments which follow the
 .B \-\-
-option are treated as file system-specific options to be passed to the
+are treated as file system-specific options to be passed to the
 file system-specific checker.
+.IP
+Please note that fsck is not
+designed to pass arbitrarily complicated options to filesystem-specific
+checkers.  If you're doing something complicated, please just
+execute the filesystem-specific checker directly.  If you pass 
+.B fsck
+some horribly complicated option and arguments, and it doesn't do
+what you expect, 
+.B don't bother reporting it as a bug.
+You're almost certainly doing something that you shouldn't be doing
+with 
+.BR fsck.
 .PP
 Currently, standardized file system-specific options are somewhat in
 flux.  Although not guaranteed, the following options are supported