From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 31 18:19:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA01453 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 31 May 1998 18:19:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA01443 for ; Sun, 31 May 1998 18:19:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) id KAA02854; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 10:48:39 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980601104839.A22406@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 10:48:39 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "J.A. Terranson" , "'Eddie Irvine'" , Karl Pielorz Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: fsck - Clean Bit not set. Why not? References: <01BD8CCF.E0B0E450@w3svcs.mfn.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <01BD8CCF.E0B0E450@w3svcs.mfn.org>; from J.A. Terranson on Sun, May 31, 1998 at 08:08:27PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message