From: Theodore Ts'o Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 22:16:29 +0000 (-0400) Subject: mke2fs.8.in: Add a common usage of the -n option. (Addresses X-Git-Tag: E2FSPROGS-1.28-WIP-0817~10 X-Git-Url: https://git.whamcloud.com/gitweb?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1f22ce34fc771077397c67962a8ce146311f84e9;p=tools%2Fe2fsprogs.git mke2fs.8.in: Add a common usage of the -n option. (Addresses Debian Bug #146437) --- diff --git a/misc/ChangeLog b/misc/ChangeLog index 725e4b8..70a2d7d 100644 --- a/misc/ChangeLog +++ b/misc/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,8 @@ 2002-08-17 Theodore Ts'o + * mke2fs.8.in: Add a common usage of the -n option. (Addresses + Debian Bug #146437) + * fsck.c (main): If no filesystems are specified on the command line, default to -As. (Addresses Debian Bug #153102) diff --git a/misc/mke2fs.8.in b/misc/mke2fs.8.in index c51a17a..b0402b3 100644 --- a/misc/mke2fs.8.in +++ b/misc/mke2fs.8.in @@ -254,8 +254,13 @@ for the sake of utilities that key off of the last mounted directory to determine where the filesytem should be mounted. .TP .B \-n -causes mke2fs to not actually create a filesystem, but display what it -would do if it were to create a filesystem. +causes mke2fs to not actually create a filesystem, but display what it +would do if it were to create a filesystem. This can be used to +determine the location of the backup superblocks for a particular +filesystem, so long as the mke2fs parameters that were passed when the +filesystem was originally created are used again. (With the +.B \-n +option added, of course!) .TP .BI \-N " number-of-inodes" overrides the default calculation of the number of inodes that should be