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Date:      Mon, 14 Aug 2000 11:02:55 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
To:        Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: fack and /etc/fstab
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10008141101290.777-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>
In-Reply-To: <200008141757.KAA82982@tao.thought.org>

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On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Gary Kline wrote:

> 
>    Hi Folks,
> 
>    Over the weekend I discovered that my new 4.0 platform consistantly
>    fails to clean my SCSI drive #2 upon an improper shudown or even by
>    typing
> 
>      # fsck 
> 
>    upon logging in as root and by-hand checking of the filesystems.

  Unless you are running single user with all filesystems mounted
read-only, fsck will consider all filesystems to be dirty, because they
are active.  Running fsck on an active filesystem is a really bad idea.


Tom
Uniserve



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