From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 3 12: 5:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.nbrewer.com (sparge.nbrewer.com [208.42.68.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 762FF37B406 for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 12:05:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@nbrewer.com) Received: by mail.nbrewer.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id A3F8D4B7112; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 14:05:36 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 14:05:36 -0500 From: Christopher Farley To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fsck weirdness? Message-ID: <20010803140533.A64411@northernbrewer.com> Mail-Followup-To: Christopher Farley , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20010803121218.A2790@northernbrewer.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010803121218.A2790@northernbrewer.com>; from chris@northernbrewer.com on Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 12:12:20PM -0500 Organization: Northern Brewer, St. Paul, MN Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Christopher Farley (chris@northernbrewer.com) wrote: > When I run fsck in single user mode, it checks the drive and reports a > clean filesystem. (I'm running fsck -f in single user mode.) > > Running it in multi-user mode, however, I get the output, attached below. I'm going to try and answer my own question, with the hopes that if I'm wrong, someone will correct me. Active filesystems are inherently dirty. Running fsck on an active, mounted filesystem may produce a list of incorrect block counts, unallocated inodes, etc. It is nothing to worry about. -- Christopher Farley www.northernbrewer.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message