From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 1 05:40:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA27655 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 05:40:36 -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 FAA27645 for ; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 05:40:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eirvine@tpgi.com.au) Received: (from smtpd@localhost) by buffy.tpgi.com.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA31069 for ; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 22:40:52 +1000 Received: from tar-ppp-164.tpgi.com.au(203.26.26.164), claiming to be "gretchen" via SMTP by buffy.tpgi.com.au, id smtpda31045; Mon Jun 1 22:40:45 1998 From: "Eddie Irvine" To: Subject: Re: fsck - Clean Bit not set. Why not? Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 22:44:57 +1000 Message-ID: <01bd8d5b$15b3fee0$a41a1acb@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 Dan Nelson 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