From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Aug 14 11: 3:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.uniserve.com (mail2.uniserve.com [204.244.156.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1AC537BE55 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 11:03:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca ([204.244.186.218]) by mail2.uniserve.com with esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 13OOZd-000FoB-00; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 11:02:57 -0700 Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 11:02:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: Gary Kline Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fack and /etc/fstab In-Reply-To: <200008141757.KAA82982@tao.thought.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message