mke2fs.8.in: Add a common usage of the -n option. (Addresses

Debian Bug #146437)
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2002-08-17 Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
* mke2fs.8.in: Add a common usage of the -n option. (Addresses
Debian Bug #146437)
* fsck.c (main): If no filesystems are specified on the command
line, default to -As. (Addresses Debian Bug #153102)

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determine where the filesytem should be mounted.
.TP
.B \-n
causes mke2fs to not actually create a filesystem, but display what it
would do if it were to create a filesystem.
causes mke2fs to not actually create a filesystem, but display what it
would do if it were to create a filesystem. This can be used to
determine the location of the backup superblocks for a particular
filesystem, so long as the mke2fs parameters that were passed when the
filesystem was originally created are used again. (With the
.B \-n
option added, of course!)
.TP
.BI \-N " number-of-inodes"
overrides the default calculation of the number of inodes that should be