From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:33228 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761559AbdAKFSb (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2017 00:18:31 -0500 Received: from int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.22]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 450468F039 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2017 05:18:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dhcp-12-135.nay.redhat.com (dhcp-12-135.nay.redhat.com [10.66.12.135]) by int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id v0B5IU6G031069 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2017 00:18:31 -0500 From: Zorro Lang Subject: [PATCH] xfs_repair: update the manual content about xfs_repair exit status Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 13:18:28 +0800 Message-Id: <1484111908-12558-1-git-send-email-zlang@redhat.com> Sender: linux-xfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: List-Id: xfs To: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org The man 8 xfs_repair said "xfs_repair run without the -n option will always return a status code of 0". That's not correct. xfs_repair will return 2 if it finds a fs log which needs to be replayed or cleared, 1 if runtime error is encountered, and 0 for all other cases. Signed-off-by: Zorro Lang --- Hi, This patch has been stayed in my local xfsprogs repo for a long time. So I'm sending it out again :) Thanks, Zorro man/man8/xfs_repair.8 | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/man/man8/xfs_repair.8 b/man/man8/xfs_repair.8 index 1b4d9e3..314f2c2 100644 --- a/man/man8/xfs_repair.8 +++ b/man/man8/xfs_repair.8 @@ -504,12 +504,18 @@ that is known to be free. The entry is therefore invalid and is deleted. This message refers to a large directory. If the directory were small, the message would read "junking entry ...". .SH EXIT STATUS +.TP .B xfs_repair \-n -(no modify node) +(no modify mode) will return a status of 1 if filesystem corruption was detected and 0 if no filesystem corruption was detected. +.TP .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 it finds a +filesystem log which needs to be replayed (by a mount/umount cycle) or +cleared (by -L option), 1 if a runtime error is encountered, filesystem +may be even more broken than before, so repair needs to be run again, +and 0 in all other cases, whether or not filesystem corruption was detected. .SH BUGS The filesystem to be checked and repaired must have been unmounted cleanly using normal system administration procedures -- 2.7.4