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Subject: Re: WARNING /usr was not properly dismounted ...
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On Saturday 26 November 2005 13:13, Alistair Sutton wrote:
> On 26/11/05, Kiffin Gish <kiffin@gish.demon.nl> wrote:
> > When I restarted by machine, I get the warning messages:
> >
> > WARNING /usr was not properly dismounted
> > WARNING /tmp was not properly dismounted
> > ...
> >
> > and for a number of other mount points.
> >
> > Are there any special precautions I need to take, some disk check utility
> > or whatever?
>
> Assuming you're running FreeBSD 6 (or -CURRENT) then unless you've
> knowingly turned off background fsck, all you need to do is just leave
> the system to check itself.

FWIW turning-off background fsck just means that the filesystems that would 
have been checked in the background, get checked before they are mounted, as 
part of the boot process.