Document the two recent changes to diskcheckd's behaviour and configuration
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.\"
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd December 30, 2000
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.Dd July 4, 2001
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.Dt DISKCHECKD 8
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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@ -49,7 +49,13 @@ by default.
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Any blank lines or lines starting with a
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.Ql #
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character in this file are ignored.
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Each non-comment line of this file should contain four white space separated
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Each non-comment line of this file should must be in one of two formats.
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The first format is
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.Ql !xx ,
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and specifies that device names matching
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.Ql /dev/xx*
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should not be included in expansion of wildcards (see below).
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The second format consists of four white space separated
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fields,
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which are the full pathname of the disk device,
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the size of that disk,
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.Dq *
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character.
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.Pp
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Note that any rate specified will be rounded to the nearest power of 2,
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and will be forced into the range 512 bytes to 128 kilobytes,
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inclusive.
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Any rate calculated from the frequency and size information will be rounded
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in the same way,
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so if you specify the third field (days for complete scan) it is unlikely
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Note that
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.Nm
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always reads data from the disk in 64KB blocks,
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so the rate your specify may not be the exact rate at which the disk is
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actually checked.
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Similarly,
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if you specify the third field (days for complete scan) it is unlikely
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that a complete scan will actually take exactly this many days.
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.Pp
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To run
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