From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 14 08:24:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA10607 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 14 Nov 1997 08:24:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from horton.iaces.com (horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA10600 for ; Fri, 14 Nov 1997 08:24:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from proot@horton.iaces.com) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA06484; Fri, 14 Nov 1997 10:22:48 -0600 (CST) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199711141622.KAA06484@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Re: dmesg message To: bbeavers@Moonraker.afsc.k12.ar.us (Bill Beavers) Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 10:22:47 -0600 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from Bill Beavers at "Nov 14, 97 10:22:10 am" X-Organization: !nterprise Networking Services - ACES X-Phone: (612) 664-3385 X-Fax: (612) 664-4779 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 600 Stinson Blvd, Fl 1S X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55413 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In a previous message, Bill Beavers said: > > Since my box seems to reboot itself every now and then due to (I think) a > flakey cylades board, now when I reboot and do a dmesg, I get this at the > bottom... > > changing root device to sd0a > WARNING: / was not properly dismounted. > de0: enabling BNC port > > Since / was not properly dismounted, what will that do, and what steps to > I need to take to make it right again and have it mount back so that I > don't have this WARNING! If a machine crashes, then the filesystem process didn't have time to sync the disk to ensure integrity. In all likelyhood it's just the clean bit not set. fsck(8) takes care of it. To not get the message, the machine must come down gracefully. -- "Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." --Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929.