Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 09:45:57 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_K=F6nig?= <bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unmounting a filesystem safely that doesn't exist anymore Message-ID: <448D1BB5.6010204@cs.tu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <20060611234835.GC739@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <448B0419.3090303@cs.tu-berlin.de> <20060611234835.GC739@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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Peter Jeremy schrieb: > On Sat, 2006-Jun-10 19:40:41 +0200, Bjrn Knig wrote: > >>I did a mistake: I unplugged my digital camera accidentally before I >>unmounted the filesystem. *doh* This happens very often, because I'm >>very scatterbrained. =) > > > Your best solution may be to use mtools (ports/emulators/mtools) rather > than mounting the filesystem. > > >>changed ad hoc. I just want to know if somebody knows a workaround or >>small trick that prevents the other filesystems from being unclean on >>next boot-up. > > > The only way to do this is to have all the other filesystems mounted > read-only. The "filesystem clean" flag is part of the superblock and > is cleared when a filesystem is mounted. It will be set only if the > filesystem is cleanly unmounted. Thank you very much for these information. They help me a lot. Björn P.S. I get the feeling questions@ would had been a better place for my question. ;-)
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