From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 14 10:38:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pioneernet.net (pop3.islandtransit.org [208.240.196.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06BFC37B883 for ; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 10:38:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chip@wiegand.org) Received: from chip.wiegand.org [208.194.173.26] by pioneernet.net (SMTPD32-6.00) id A88D9010768; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 10:42:37 -0700 From: chip To: Walter Brameld , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Running FSCK - Was: I'm at a loss for a way to mount this second harddrive Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 10:36:40 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain References: <00041405315600.02944@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00041410403500.16045@chip.wiegand.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I checked dmesg and you're right. In fact, the warning message was > > pointing to all my partitions including /cdrom. So I ran fsck and it > > reported back that the filesystem was still dirty and to re-run fsck, > > so I did, and kept getting the same results. I read the man pages for > > fsck and ran fsck -p and fsck -f, not sure which one was most > > appropriate, but the file system is still 'dirty'. What should I try > > next to 'clean' the 'dirty' filesystem? > > > > -- > > Chip > > I hope you're not trying to run fsck on mounted file systems. > > -- > Walter Brameld Oops. What's the ramifications of doing so? It appears everything is still working as normal. How would I run fsck on my root partition, it gets mounted at boot up automatically of course. And as for the other partitions that are automounted by fstab, should I comment out the lines to mount them and then reboot? There must be a better way, I always heard, read, and seen that the only time one needs to reboot bsd is for hardware changes. -- Chip www.wiegand.org ***** Visit my web site - Alternative Operating Systems - MS Windows isn't the only OS in town. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message