On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 09:35:35PM +0100, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas wrote: > > > I think it's fair to give the user a chance to understand why > scan_ffs(8) won't help in this case. > > ok? >
hi. i'm not sure if it's a bug, but it sure seems relevant. i would be tempted to be much more upfront about this (DESCRIPTION), way before you start tearing hair out... like just say upfront, scan_ffs does not support ffs2 filesystems. jmc > > --- scan_ffs.8.~1.16.~ Mon Mar 24 00:28:46 2008 > +++ scan_ffs.8 Fri Feb 8 21:31:10 2019 > @@ -136,6 +136,7 @@ you out of a jam when they happen. > .Sh SEE ALSO > .Xr disklabel 8 > .Sh BUGS > -It is not perfect, and could do a lot more things with date/time information > +It is not perfect, does not support FFS2 filesystems, > +and could do a lot more things with date/time information > in the superblocks it finds, but this program has saved more than one butt, > more than once. > > -- > jca | PGP : 0x1524E7EE / 5135 92C1 AD36 5293 2BDF DDCC 0DFA 74AE 1524 E7EE >
