From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 15 01:10:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA28953 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 01:10:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from buffy.tpgi.com.au (buffy.tpgi.com.au [203.12.160.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA28789 for ; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 01:10:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eirvine@tpgi.com.au) Received: (from smtpd@localhost) by buffy.tpgi.com.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA01194; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 18:11:06 +1000 Received: from tar-ppp-173.tpgi.com.au(203.26.26.173), claiming to be "gretchen" via SMTP by buffy.tpgi.com.au, id smtpda01157; Mon Jun 15 18:10:55 1998 From: "Eddie Irvine" To: Cc: Subject: Re: fsck - Clean Bit not set. Why not? Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 18:09:24 +1000 Message-ID: <01bd9834$e88cb9e0$ad1a1acb@gretchen> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >From: Leif Neland Thanks - There were many responses to this about a week ago and it seemed the problem was I was running fsck on mounted, live file systems. I now know (thanks to the list) that that is A Bad Thing To Do. I have promised not to do it again. >On Sun, 31 May 1998, Eddie Irvine wrote: > >> >> Been running FreeBSD since 2.2.2 . Have always seen >> the message "Clean Bit not set. Fix [y/n] ?" >> when running fsck. >> > >Are you running fsck when the system is up and running normally? > >Then the clean bit is not set, because the disks are mounted. The clean >bit is only set, when the disks are unmounted cleanly. > >In some unix'es fsck complains if the filesystem is mounted. Eddie. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message