From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 5 23:33:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from isy.liu.se (isy.liu.se [130.236.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C28637B401 for ; Sun, 5 Aug 2001 23:33:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mj@isy.liu.se) Received: from lagrange.isy.liu.se (lagrange.isy.liu.se [130.236.49.127]) by isy.liu.se (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f766XDh01519; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 08:33:14 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010803140533.A64411@northernbrewer.com> Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 08:33:52 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson To: Christopher Farley Subject: Re: fsck weirdness? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG 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 On 03-Aug-01 Christopher Farley wrote: > 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. Precisely. Only run fsck on an unmounted fs. /M > > -- > Christopher Farley > www.northernbrewer.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message