linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] e2fsck: Improve error message when device name misspelled

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Message-ID: <20100920025600.GC3554@thunk.org>
Date:	Sun, 19 Sep 2010 22:56:00 -0400
From:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e2fsck: Improve error message when device name
 misspelled

On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 04:12:08PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> When a device name is misspelled, we output the full text about specifying
> alternate superblock. This is slightly misleading because when the device
> cannot be open because of ENOENT, this certainly won't help. So just print
> that device does not exist and exit.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>

Applied, thanks for the patch!

					- Ted
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