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Date:      Mon, 1 Jun 1998 10:48:39 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        "J.A. Terranson" <sysadmin@mfn.org>, "'Eddie Irvine'" <eirvine@tpgi.com.au>, Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: fsck - Clean Bit not set. Why not?
Message-ID:  <19980601104839.A22406@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <01BD8CCF.E0B0E450@w3svcs.mfn.org>; from J.A. Terranson on Sun, May 31, 1998 at 08:08:27PM -0500
References:  <01BD8CCF.E0B0E450@w3svcs.mfn.org>

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On Sun, 31 May 1998 at 20:08:27 -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote:
On Sunday, May 31, 1998 7:44 PM, Eddie Irvine [SMTP:eirvine@tpgi.com.au] wrote:
>>> On Sun, 31 May 1998 at 21:32:38 +1000, Eddie Irvine wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Umm, the "Clean bit not set. Fix [y/n]?" comes up
>>>> even after a clean shutdown.
>>
>>> That's not what you implied in your last message.  Are you sure?
>>
>> Yes. The message comes *any time*
>> I manually run fsck. Always has -
>> I thought it was kind of a feature.
>
> The clean bit is not set on a running system - EVER.

Not so.  It should get set in single user mode if the file system
isn't mounted read-write.  It's truer to say "The clean bit is not set
on a system which is *not* running--ever".

Greg
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