From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 2 11:10:25 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D26A16A407; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 11:10:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joe@tao.org.uk) Received: from mailhost.tao.org.uk (transwarp.tao.org.uk [87.74.4.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E2A943D72; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 11:10:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joe@tao.org.uk) Received: from genius.tao.org.uk (genius.pact.cpes.susx.ac.uk [139.184.130.240]) by mailhost.tao.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id C97195ECF; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 12:10:12 +0100 (BST) Received: by genius.tao.org.uk (Postfix, from userid 100) id C09DF4075; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 12:10:10 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 12:10:10 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: Brooks Davis Message-ID: <20061002111010.GC851@genius.tao.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Josef Karthauser , Brooks Davis , current@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org References: <20060929131612.GA1473@genius.tao.org.uk> <20060929144407.GA85110@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="mvpLiMfbWzRoNl4x" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060929144407.GA85110@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: stable@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Drives always come up dirty after shutdown on 6.2-PRERELEASE. X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 11:10:25 -0000 --mvpLiMfbWzRoNl4x Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 09:44:07AM -0500, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 02:16:12PM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote: > > Hey guys, > >=20 > > I'm not really on the ball with reading the lists now-a-days, and so > > I've not idea whether this has been discussed already. > >=20 > > On my laptop running 6.2-PRERELEASE the drives always mount dirty, which > > suggests that they are not being shutdown clean; however the machine > > always syncs the disks and switches itself off after a 'shutdown -p > > now', and so I'm not sure what it could be. > >=20 > > Has anyone else seen this? >=20 > I haven't seen any other reports of this. Have you tried running a > "fsck -f" on the drives? It's possible there's a latent error that > isn't being fixed by bgfsck. >=20 Closer investigation reveals that I've getting this error: laptop# fsck -B /var background fsck lacks a snapshot So, that explains it. The background fsck isn't running. So, any ideas why it isn't snapshotting? laptop# ls -ld /var/.snap drwxrwx--- 2 root operator 512 Oct 2 12:09 /var/.snap Joe --=20 Josef Karthauser (joe@tao.org.uk) http://www.josef-k.net/ Physics Particle Theory (student) http://www.pact.cpes.sussex.ac.uk/ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D An eclectic mix of fact an= d theory. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D --mvpLiMfbWzRoNl4x Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkUg85IACgkQXVIcjOaxUBbu3wCgsmVQ+ILCW1izoOtif5vsaXEX upsAn1Fo54v6YuYwUR8la8MQfJaNRA54 =Fbvc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --mvpLiMfbWzRoNl4x--