I don't know why fstab doesn't document that the fifth field specifies

the number of days between backups.  All it says is frequency, with no
units given.  It likely should say "the interval in days between backups"
instead, but not today.
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Warner Losh 2009-06-07 07:45:25 +00:00
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@ -198,6 +198,8 @@ command to determine which file systems need to be dumped.
If the fifth field is not present, a value of zero is returned and
.Nm dump
will assume that the file system does not need to be dumped.
If the fifth field is greater than 0, then it specifies the number of days
between dumps for this file system.
.Pp
The sixth field,
.Pq Fa fs_passno ,