Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 11:56:37 -0700 (PDT) From: John Utz <spaz@u.washington.edu> To: AlexAdroog@aol.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Superblock error Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91j.950523114950.15439A-100000@saul5.u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <950523135958_9176242@aol.com>
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Hello There! On Tue, 23 May 1995 AlexAdroog@aol.com wrote: > Greetings All ! > > It seems that upon every boot or fsck that I am receiving and error "CLEAN > FLAG IS WRONG IN SUPERBLOCK". The system will boot with the clean flag and > then fsck will attemp to fix it. Sometimes it will fix it and carry on, > othertimes it will abort with a panic. By running fsck manually it seems to > clean up the problem yet, upon a reboot, I get the error again, and again. > Does anyone have any suggestions or ideas as to the nature of this problem? > These questions tend to be easier to work with when you mention some specific details about your system such as the Version u are running, the type of machine, bus, drives.. on and on.. anyway, to ask the painfully obvious first ( and hopefully not making u mad :-) ) are u just turning the machine off, or are you halting it before you turn off the machine? the symptoms that u are reporting sound like you are just turning it off... this would not be a good idea....unix does not always complete file system writes immediately after you think u have saved it. Thus, all partially completed writes get finished when you type "halt" before turning it off. > ThanX, Timothy > > ******************************************************************************* John Utz spaz@stein.u.washington.edu idiocy is the impulse function in the convolution of life
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