On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 11:59, you wrote: > BTW, when the man page says "e2fsck(8)", what does the (8) mean?
The man pages are divided into the following sections: Section 1 User Commands Section 2 System Calls Section 3 Subroutines Section 4 Devices Section 5 File Formats Section 6 Games Section 7 Miscellaneous Section 8 System Administration Section 9 Kernel The (8) means that e2fsck is a System Administration command, as opposed to e2fsck the game[1] which is in section 6. If you had an entry for e2fsck in sections 6 and 8, you can type: man 6 e2fsck for the game instructions, and man 8 e2fsck for the filesystem check instructions. Yuri [1] Espionage 2: Fred Spies. Charlie Knows.
