From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 31 18:10:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA29610 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 31 May 1998 18:10:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dc1.mfn.org (dc1.mfn.org [204.238.179.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA29495 for ; Sun, 31 May 1998 18:10:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sysadmin@mfn.org) Received: from w3svcs.mfn.org (unverified [204.238.179.11]) by mail.mfn.org (EMWAC SMTPRS 0.83) with SMTP id ; Sun, 31 May 1998 20:11:23 -0500 Received: by w3svcs.mfn.org with Microsoft Mail id <01BD8CCF.E0B0E450@w3svcs.mfn.org>; Sun, 31 May 1998 20:08:29 -0500 Message-ID: <01BD8CCF.E0B0E450@w3svcs.mfn.org> From: "J.A. Terranson" To: "'Eddie Irvine'" , Greg Lehey , Karl Pielorz Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: RE: fsck - Clean Bit not set. Why not? Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 20:08:27 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----Original Message----- From: Eddie Irvine [SMTP:eirvine@tpgi.com.au] Sent: Sunday, May 31, 1998 7:44 PM To: Greg Lehey; Karl Pielorz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fsck - Clean Bit not set. Why not? The clean bit is not set on a running system - EVER. That's how the system knows (when booting) if the system was shut down "cleanly": just about the last thing done at shutdown time is a series of sync's, followed by a setting of the clean bit. If you are running fsck, then the machine is in use, and therefore, *by definition*, not clean. J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org >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. Eddie. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message