xfs_repair cannot proceed with a dirty log, and exits with a status code of 2 in that case; fix the manpage to reflect this. (This has been the case for years, but was never documented). Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> --- diff --git a/man/man8/xfs_repair.8 b/man/man8/xfs_repair.8 index 1b4d9e3..57c970a 100644 --- a/man/man8/xfs_repair.8 +++ b/man/man8/xfs_repair.8 @@ -509,7 +509,9 @@ If the directory were small, the message would read "junking entry ...". will return a status of 1 if filesystem corruption was detected and 0 if no filesystem corruption was detected. .B xfs_repair -run without the \-n option will always return a status code of 0. +run without the \-n option will return a status code of 2 if the log is +dirty and needs to be replayed, otherwise it will always return a status +code of 0. .SH BUGS The filesystem to be checked and repaired must have been unmounted cleanly using normal system administration procedures _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
