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Diffstat (limited to 'sysutils/diskcheckd')
| -rw-r--r-- | sysutils/diskcheckd/files/diskcheckd.8 | 23 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/sysutils/diskcheckd/files/diskcheckd.8 b/sysutils/diskcheckd/files/diskcheckd.8 index 72de6997a108..dc8e6708375e 100644 --- a/sysutils/diskcheckd/files/diskcheckd.8 +++ b/sysutils/diskcheckd/files/diskcheckd.8 @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd December 30, 2000 +.Dd July 4, 2001 .Dt DISKCHECKD 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -49,7 +49,13 @@ by default. Any blank lines or lines starting with a .Ql # character in this file are ignored. -Each non-comment line of this file should contain four white space separated +Each non-comment line of this file should must be in one of two formats. +The first format is +.Ql !xx , +and specifies that device names matching +.Ql /dev/xx* +should not be included in expansion of wildcards (see below). +The second format consists of four white space separated fields, which are the full pathname of the disk device, the size of that disk, @@ -80,12 +86,13 @@ Fields which are not specified should contain a single .Dq * character. .Pp -Note that any rate specified will be rounded to the nearest power of 2, -and will be forced into the range 512 bytes to 128 kilobytes, -inclusive. -Any rate calculated from the frequency and size information will be rounded -in the same way, -so if you specify the third field (days for complete scan) it is unlikely +Note that +.Nm +always reads data from the disk in 64KB blocks, +so the rate your specify may not be the exact rate at which the disk is +actually checked. +Similarly, +if you specify the third field (days for complete scan) it is unlikely that a complete scan will actually take exactly this many days. .Pp To run |