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@@ -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.