X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=perl%2Flib%2FSys%2FGuestfs.pm;h=5b87b27e80744e198ca3e0351bde5f495093d6ef;hb=0703248d233744047515418893dac05ce013a642;hp=efc28457057a6758d36af058a1bb378fd0d5c7d4;hpb=f7e6ffa8a82f8a7a214a47ff32f46d9e893902d8;p=libguestfs.git

diff --git a/perl/lib/Sys/Guestfs.pm b/perl/lib/Sys/Guestfs.pm
index efc2845..5b87b27 100644
--- a/perl/lib/Sys/Guestfs.pm
+++ b/perl/lib/Sys/Guestfs.pm
@@ -468,6 +468,19 @@ The exact command which runs is C<file -bsL path>.  Note in
 particular that the filename is not prepended to the output
 (the C<-b> option).
 
+=item $status = $h->fsck ($fstype, $device);
+
+This runs the filesystem checker (fsck) on C<device> which
+should have filesystem type C<fstype>.
+
+The returned integer is the status.  See L<fsck(8)> for the
+list of status codes from C<fsck>, and note that multiple
+status codes can be summed together.
+
+It is entirely equivalent to running C<fsck -a -t fstype device>.
+Note that checking or repairing NTFS volumes is not supported
+(by linux-ntfs).
+
 =item $autosync = $h->get_autosync ();
 
 Get the autosync flag.