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Date:      Sun, 31 May 1998 21:32:38 +1000
From:      "Eddie Irvine" <eirvine@tpgi.com.au>
To:        "Karl Pielorz" <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: fsck - Clean Bit not set. Why not?
Message-ID:  <01bd8c87$d07bf4a0$a41a1acb@gretchen>

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Umm, the "Clean bit not set. Fix [y/n]?" comes up
even after a clean shutdown.

If I type "y" to fix it, and then run fsck immediately,
I get the same error "Clean Bit not set."

>> Hi,
>>
>> Been running FreeBSD since 2.2.2 . Have always seen
>> the message "Clean Bit not set. Fix [y/n] ?"
>> when running fsck.


>If the system didn't go down cleanly, the filesystems won't be dismounted
>before the reboot...
>
>When the system comes back up - it will see the filesystem wasn't
dismounted
>(as it's 'clean bit' won't be set) - so it will run fsck on them... The
>final question after a successful repair that fsck asks is 'Clean bit not
>set on filesystem. Fix [y/n]'.



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