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Subject: Re: 7.0 and fsck question
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Walker <zflyer@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 5:01 AM, Matthew Seaman
> <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:
>>  Two possibilities:
>>
>>  i) The root partition wasn't marked dirty at the time your system
> [...]
>
> The root partition was mounted rw.
>
> I neglected to mention the box is headless, so I can only see what is
> logged.  I'm guessing syslogd wasn't running when fsck kicked off on
> the root partition.

In that case, you should be able to see it in the dmesg output.
If you still care enough to look.  ;-)