From c0144017620cbee64a818ede2ea7d23d04aaff56 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jkar8572 <jkar8572>
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 16:21:58 +0000
Subject: quotacheck(8) now creates backup quotafiles only when -b specified
 (Preston Brown) Fixed bug in parsing of passed mountpoints (reported by
 Preston Brown) More verbose output of quotaon (Preston Brown) quotacheck(8)
 now automatically chooses vfsv0 quota format when no quota files are found
 and special filenames are not specified.

---
 quotacheck.8 | 17 ++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

(limited to 'quotacheck.8')

diff --git a/quotacheck.8 b/quotacheck.8
index 7c5f5b2..1fe707b 100644
--- a/quotacheck.8
+++ b/quotacheck.8
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ quotacheck \- scan a filesystem for disk usage, create, check and repair quota f
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .B quotacheck
 [
-.B \-gucfinvdMmR
+.B \-gubcfinvdMmR
 ] [
 .B \-F
 .I quota-format
@@ -19,10 +19,10 @@ examines each filesystem, builds a table of current disk usage, and
 compares this table against that recorded in the disk quota file for the
 filesystem (this step is ommitted if option
 .B -c
-is specified).  If any inconsistencies are detected, both the quota file
+is specified). If any inconsistencies are detected, both the quota file
 and the current system copy of the incorrect quotas are updated (the
-latter only occurs if an active filesystem is checked).  By default,
-only user quotas are checked.
+latter only occurs if an active filesystem is checked which is not advised).
+By default, only user quotas are checked.
 .B quotacheck
 expects each filesystem to be checked to have quota files named
 .I [a]quota.user
@@ -70,6 +70,11 @@ ignore the failure to remount the filesystem read-only with option
 .BR \-M .
 .SH OPTIONS
 .TP
+.B \-b
+Forces
+.B quotacheck
+to make backups of the quota file before writing the new data.
+.TP
 .B \-v
 .B quotacheck
 reports its operation as it progresses.  Normally it operates silently.
@@ -91,6 +96,8 @@ or on the filesystems specified are to be checked.
 .TP
 .B \-c
 Don't read existing quota files. Just perform a new scan and save it to disk.
+.B quotacheck
+also skips scanning of old quota files when they are not found.
 .TP
 .B \-f
 Forces checking of filesystems with quotas enabled. This is not
@@ -120,7 +127,7 @@ exits or asks user for input. When this option is set, the first entry found
 is always used (this option works in interactive mode too).
 .TP
 .B \-F \f2format-name\f1
-Check quota quota for specified format (ie. don't perform format
+Check quota for specified format (ie. don't perform format
 auto-detection). This is recommended as detection might not work well on
 corrupted quota files.  Possible format names are:
 .B vfsold
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