Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 09:58:04 -0500 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Josef Karthauser <joe@FreeBSD.org>, Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Drives always come up dirty after shutdown on 6.2-PRERELEASE. Message-ID: <20061002145804.GA26041@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <20061002111010.GC851@genius.tao.org.uk> References: <20060929131612.GA1473@genius.tao.org.uk> <20060929144407.GA85110@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <20061002111010.GC851@genius.tao.org.uk>
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On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 12:10:10PM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote: > 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, > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > Has anyone else seen this? > > > > 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. > > > > 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 This message appears to be the result of fsck thinking it created a snapshot, but not actually doing so. You might try asking over on -fs. -- Brooks
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