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| author | imp <imp@FreeBSD.org> | 2009-06-07 07:45:25 +0000 |
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| committer | imp <imp@FreeBSD.org> | 2009-06-07 07:45:25 +0000 |
| commit | 444e8b7b3bbd1fef8c18b8643b5d8f20ae1688dc (patch) | |
| tree | b4d9990bcb65a10524704eab3a86e999800dda37 /share | |
| parent | 34b719404f67b02b672997b240cfe6f0ee5c2e61 (diff) | |
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I don't know why fstab doesn't document that the fifth field specifies
the number of days between backups. All it says is frequency, with no
units given. It likely should say "the interval in days between backups"
instead, but not today.
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| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man5/fstab.5 | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man5/fstab.5 b/share/man/man5/fstab.5 index df19b9b..1c6f17e 100644 --- a/share/man/man5/fstab.5 +++ b/share/man/man5/fstab.5 @@ -198,6 +198,8 @@ command to determine which file systems need to be dumped. If the fifth field is not present, a value of zero is returned and .Nm dump will assume that the file system does not need to be dumped. +If the fifth field is greater than 0, then it specifies the number of days +between dumps for this file system. .Pp The sixth field, .Pq Fa fs_passno , |
