Well, it seems the patch I sent either isn't holding or never got committed.
I received word from core that the patch had been applied.

Since it hasn't been applied to the distributed source tree, I present it
here.  Maybe there was a mix-up or something; I send-pr'd it and received
a closure before the feature freeze date.

Anyway, here it is:  fsck/preen.c diffs which allow one to say, for example,
# fsck /usr
and have it do The Right Thing.

--- preen.c	Mon Apr 29 11:37:18 1996
+++ preen.c.orig	Mon Apr 29 11:36:39 1996
@@ -290,6 +290,7 @@
 	char *origname;
 {
 	struct stat stslash, stblock, stchar;
+	struct fstab *fsp;
 	char *newname, *raw;
 	int retried = 0;
 
@@ -330,6 +331,11 @@
 	 * Not a block or character device, just return name and
 	 * let the user decide whether to use it.
 	 */
+	if ((fsp = getfsfile(origname))) {
+	    newname = fsp->fs_spec;
+	    retried++;
+	    goto retry;
+    	}
 	return (origname);
 }
 



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