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diff --git a/perl/lib/Sys/Guestfs.pm b/perl/lib/Sys/Guestfs.pm
index 90384da..2d75b69 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.
@@ -758,9 +771,13 @@ Remove the single directory C<path>.
 =item $h->set_autosync ($autosync);
 
 If C<autosync> is true, this enables autosync.  Libguestfs will make a
-best effort attempt to run C<$h-E<gt>sync> when the handle is closed
+best effort attempt to run C<$h-E<gt>umount_all> followed by
+C<$h-E<gt>sync> when the handle is closed
 (also if the program exits without closing handles).
 
+This is disabled by default (except in guestfish where it is
+enabled by default).
+
 =item $h->set_busy ();
 
 This sets the state to C<BUSY>.  This is only used when implementing
@@ -989,6 +1006,14 @@ Because of the message protocol, there is a transfer limit
 of somewhere between 2MB and 4MB.  To transfer large files you should use
 FTP.
 
+=item $h->zero ($device);
+
+This command writes zeroes over the first few blocks of C<device>.
+
+How many blocks are zeroed isn't specified (but it's I<not> enough
+to securely wipe the device).  It should be sufficient to remove
+any partition tables, filesystem superblocks and so on.
+
 =cut
 
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