Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 22:44:57 +1000 From: "Eddie Irvine" <eirvine@tpgi.com.au> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: fsck - Clean Bit not set. Why not? Message-ID: <01bd8d5b$15b3fee0$a41a1acb@gretchen>
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Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> wrote: >In the last episode (Jun 01), Eddie Irvine said: >> >> someone (Eddie, please keep attributions) said: >>> >>> 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. > >You're not running fsck on a r/w mounted partition, are you? 'Fraid I've kind of always done it that way.... >You should only run fsck on / from single-user mode right after a reboot, >and for all other partitions you should unmount before fscking. Can I still claim to be a pathetic newbie after 9 months? I like to think so. Glad to have gotten to the bottom of this. Thanks all for the tip! > -Dan Nelson > dnelson@emsphone.com > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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