Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 12:15:48 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> To: Eddie Irvine <eirvine@tpgi.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fsck - Clean Bit not set. Why not? Message-ID: <35713BE4.861E59A3@tdx.co.uk> References: <01bd8c7e$ed9b7c80$a41a1acb@gretchen>
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Eddie Irvine wrote: > > Hi, > > Been running FreeBSD since 2.2.2 . Have always seen > the message "Clean Bit not set. Fix [y/n] ?" > when running fsck. > > Have dug around in the archives but can't seem > to find anything. I get the feeling I should edit > my /etc/fstab file. > > Reason I'm asking is that FreeBSD 2.2.6-Stable > now seems to not want to "halt" or reboot properly - > system just hangs. . . > > Or perhaps it is the PostgreSQL port that I've > just installed?? > > Any pointers appreciated. > If the system didn't go down cleanly, the filesystems won't be dismounted before the reboot... When the system comes back up - it will see the filesystem wasn't dismounted (as it's 'clean bit' won't be set) - so it will run fsck on them... The final question after a successful repair that fsck asks is 'Clean bit not set on filesystem. Fix [y/n]'. You need to find why your system doesn't shut down properly... You _probably_ won't do much damage to the filesystems doing this (unless your using synchronus mode, which is off by default) - but it's still not 'healthy'). Regards, Karl Pielorz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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