From 15f5051e390bfb5a9e64d01b26a52fad43514652 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 16:46:19 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] 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. --- e2fsck/ChangeLog | 7 +++++++ e2fsck/e2fsck.8.in | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++--- misc/ChangeLog | 4 ++++ misc/blkid.8.in | 2 +- 4 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/e2fsck/ChangeLog b/e2fsck/ChangeLog index 0288b8c..9e18b72 100644 --- a/e2fsck/ChangeLog +++ b/e2fsck/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +2005-06-05 Theodore Ts'o + + * 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 * 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 --- 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 . .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 --- a/misc/ChangeLog +++ b/misc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2005-06-05 Theodore Ts'o + + * blkid.8.in: Minor spelling fix. + 2005-05-29 Theodore Ts'o * 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 --- 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. -- 1.8.3.1