From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 7 13:28:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kohtz.com (neptune.kohtz.com [204.62.193.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F25014CE2 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 13:28:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@kohtz.com) Received: from christy.kohtz.com (christy.kohtz.com [204.62.193.181]) by kohtz.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA19107 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 13:26:42 -0700 (MST) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 13:26:41 -0700 (MST) From: Andy Kohtz To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: fsck wont clean file system Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, I have encountered something that seems to defy all of my knowledge ... and general sense too. Fsck isn't cleaning the file systems. I have tried running fsck in single and multi user mode with the file system mounted or unmounted but nothing seems to change the outcome. The most informative message I have gotten out of it yet simply states: >***** FILE SYSTEM STILL DIRTY ***** > >***** PLEASE RERUN FSCK ***** The file system is never modified and the frags never go away ... no matter how many times I have re-run fsck. I have reviewed the man page for fsck and don't think that I am missing any important switches on the command line. I just use the standard -y to say yes to everything. Does anyone have an idea of what might be going on. I use FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE on a Compaq with a standard IDE hard drive. The machine runs fine ... this just bugs me and I'm curious if anyone can shed some light on the subject. Thanks! :-) - Andrew Kohtz - akohtz@amug.org - andrew@kohtz.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message