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Date:      Sun, 14 Jun 1998 18:05:47 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Leif Neland <leifn@internet.dk>
To:        Eddie Irvine <eirvine@tpgi.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: fsck - Clean Bit not set. Why not?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980614180210.290B-100000@darla.swimsuit.internet.dk>
In-Reply-To: <01bd8c7e$ed9b7c80$a41a1acb@gretchen>

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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. 



Leif Neland
leifn@internet.dk



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