Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 18:09:24 +1000 From: "Eddie Irvine" <eirvine@tpgi.com.au> To: <leifn@internet.dk> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: fsck - Clean Bit not set. Why not? Message-ID: <01bd9834$e88cb9e0$ad1a1acb@gretchen>
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>From: Leif Neland Thanks - There were many responses to this about a week ago and it seemed the problem was I was running fsck on mounted, live file systems. I now know (thanks to the list) that that is A Bad Thing To Do. I have promised not to do it again. >On Sun, 31 May 1998, Eddie Irvine wrote: > >> >> Been running FreeBSD since 2.2.2 . Have always seen >> the message "Clean Bit not set. Fix [y/n] ?" >> when running fsck. >> > >Are you running fsck when the system is up and running normally? > >Then the clean bit is not set, because the disks are mounted. The clean >bit is only set, when the disks are unmounted cleanly. > >In some unix'es fsck complains if the filesystem is mounted. Eddie. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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