From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 20 9:36:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gidora.zeta.org.au (gidora.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F0FBD37BC62 for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 09:36:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: (qmail 10350 invoked from network); 20 Feb 2000 17:35:59 -0000 Received: from bde.zeta.org.au (203.2.228.102) by gidora.zeta.org.au with SMTP; 20 Feb 2000 17:35:59 -0000 Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 04:35:55 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-Sender: bde@alphplex.bde.org To: Mike Dracopoulos Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: duplicate blocks in shared ext2 partition In-Reply-To: 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 On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Mike Dracopoulos wrote: > I am running both FreeBSD and Linux sharing an ext2 /home (on a > dedicated disk). > > Occasionally (say once every month or two), FreeBSD complains on > bootup about /home and asks to run fsck on it. Here is a record of > what happened last time: The system must have crashed while the filesystem was mounted rw for FreeBSD to notice the problem at boot time. After a crash it is normal for fsck to find some problems, especially for async-mounted filesystems. FreeBSD's ext2fs doesn't support async mounting, but it cheats and forces async operation in some cases (mainly for inode writes). Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message