Document the two recent changes to diskcheckd's behaviour and configuration

syntax.
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Ben Smithurst 2001-07-18 22:29:54 +00:00
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.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd December 30, 2000
.Dd July 4, 2001
.Dt DISKCHECKD 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
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Any blank lines or lines starting with a
.Ql #
character in this file are ignored.
Each non-comment line of this file should contain four white space separated
Each non-comment line of this file should must be in one of two formats.
The first format is
.Ql !xx ,
and specifies that device names matching
.Ql /dev/xx*
should not be included in expansion of wildcards (see below).
The second format consists of four white space separated
fields,
which are the full pathname of the disk device,
the size of that disk,
@ -80,12 +86,13 @@ Fields which are not specified should contain a single
.Dq *
character.
.Pp
Note that any rate specified will be rounded to the nearest power of 2,
and will be forced into the range 512 bytes to 128 kilobytes,
inclusive.
Any rate calculated from the frequency and size information will be rounded
in the same way,
so if you specify the third field (days for complete scan) it is unlikely
Note that
.Nm
always reads data from the disk in 64KB blocks,
so the rate your specify may not be the exact rate at which the disk is
actually checked.
Similarly,
if you specify the third field (days for complete scan) it is unlikely
that a complete scan will actually take exactly this many days.
.Pp
To run